what is aging?

I recently attended the Longevity Frontiers Workshop, which was a fantastic event hosted by the Longevity Biotech Fellowship and the Foresight Institute. One of the highlights was an impromptu debate on the underlying mechanisms of aging between Jean Hebert and Vadim Gladyshev. So, what is aging?

the geroscience hypothesis

The older you become, the more likely you are to get a variety of diseases: atherosclerosis, cancer, diabetes, etc. Part of the reason is that your cells and organs don’t work as well at advanced age. Your cells have more genetic damage, so they become cancers more frequently. At the same time, your immune systemContinue reading “the geroscience hypothesis”