"If we really invest in longevity science, we have a chance to build a better future. It's gonna be better in one very simple way. There's gonna be a lot less disease. At the moment, aging is the leading cause of death globally. Over a hundred thousand people die every single day of cancer, of Alzheimer's, of the increased risk of infectious disease that comes along with growing older."
"And so by keeping people biologically younger, using medicine for longer, we can enjoy a longer health span, a longer period of healthy life where we're active, where we're happy, where we can engage in our hobbies, we can play with our grandkids, our great grandkids, and so on. This could be the greatest revolution in the history of medicine. It could allow us not to just develop treatments for individual diseases, but drugs that can prevent multiple different diseases from ever arising in the first place."
Aging drives increased risk for cancer, Alzheimer's, heart disease, and infectious illness, becoming more likely with each passing year. Aging is the leading cause of death worldwide, accounting for over one hundred thousand deaths per day from age-related conditions. Longevity science seeks interventions that keep people biologically younger and extend healthspan, enabling longer periods of active, healthy life and intergenerational engagement. Developing medicines that target aging processes could prevent many diseases simultaneously rather than treating each separately. Reversing biological aging has the potential to transform medicine and markedly reduce population-level disease burden.
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