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Aubrey de Grey: Why we age and how we can avoid it?

Cambridge researcher Aubrey de Grey thinks that aging is a disease. The good news? It is a CURABLE disease.  Aubrey believes that our whole ‘aging is a good thing’ culture is dangerous for our health. He explains the seven factors in aging and how many – or most – can be avoided.

Cambridge researcher Aubrey de Grey argues that aging is merely a disease — and a curable one at that. Humans age in seven basic ways, he says, all of which can be averted.

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  • Loki

    aubrey de grey is a charlatan, he comes up with ideas that he has no idea how to implement. Hard to take someone seriously when they say “how hard can it be” and they get fired for claiming to be a professor when all they are is a computer tech for the university

  • fred

    ow my ears (the end)

  • Matrus

    it’s because of people like him why long hair on heads or faces are associated with hippydom and/or naivity.
    He has some valid philosophical arguments but no single suggestion on how or where to actually start on a biologic aspect with potential for such a goal of that escape velocity.
    Also many of his philosophical viewpoints neglect fundamental questions, like how will longjevity affect society… or might it be just another way to shorten the lifespan of humanity by making the time we have to evolve on the closed biotope earth even shorter when faster growing population consumes resources faster.

    Even without being competent in any medical or biological field, he could have looked for examples of existing medical treatments that lessen common weaknesses of organs that came to be through aging.

    The aspect of how more wealthy people can afford drugs with less sideeffects and less harmfullness against organs like the liver or the kidneys and hence get longer life-span extensions than poorer people who are only left with the choice wether to avert one health problem by causing another one through cheap drugs or die without medical help would be interesting for a start.