Saturday, November 14, 2015

Anti-aging intervention

Surveys have clearly shown that our biggest concern when we reach the midway point in our lives is aging. Not unemployment or poverty. Not the rise in violent crime, nor even the chance of being involved in a crippling accident. What makes us most afraid is aging. The symptoms are:

  • Poor eyesight
  • Hearing loss
  • Bone loss
  • Impotence
  • Muscle weakness
  • Declining vitality
  • Memory problems
  • Lack of independence
  • Becoming bedridden
  • All this and more...
  • ... these are the unmistakable signs of aging. Unmistakable certainly, but are they also inevitable?

When the history of the 21st century eventually comes to be written, what will they say was the most significant achievement of our era? Together with an increasing number of scientists, I believe that they will say anti-aging intervention. By which we mean the ability to directly affect the aging process. The big question is, which results from all the research on aging can already be implemented in practice? I’m not just talking about the theory or what might happen in a few years’ time, but about the here and now.

I would like to keep you informed about this in my blog. I’ll spare you from recycling the allegedly latest scientific findings which somehow inevitably lead to the same expert conclusion: do exercise, don’t smoke, eat a balanced diet; meanwhile, everything else is some way off in the future.

That is not true.

It is already possible to achieve personalized and individualized health prevention today. And effectively so, taking genetic predisposition into account. I’ll tell you more about this in my next blog posts.