If that's the case, it would mean that stopping aging would not
extend human life span by much.
Understanding how they work may reveal the keys to
extending human life span while banishing diseases of old age
They are not even thinking about
extending the human life span to 150 or 200 years, at least not in the short term.
Not exact matches
It has allowed us to understand sanitation which has increased
human health and
life extending the average
life span while increasing infant mortality rates.
Instead, the rationale appears to be that an
extended life span would simply satisfy many private desires: first, hardly anyone wants to die; second, as a basic
human good,
life is worth
extending indefinitely; and, third, it would be remiss of science not to respond to that ancient expression of
human hope and desire.
The truly intimidating feature of a greatly
extended life span, much less earthly immortality, is that just about everything else in
human life would have to be changed to make it worthwhile.
Without solving enduring
human problems, a medically
extended life span could simply set the stage for more of the same social miseries.
If the
human life span were significantly
extended, could we fill our brains?
If standardized and reactive medicine managed to double the
human life span in a century, just imagine how far personalized and preventive medicine might
extend it.
Extending the cells»
life span is particularly important because diseased cells only last from 10 to 20 days compared to about 120 days for healthy cells in
humans.
In good news for food lovers, studies threw doubt on the idea that restricting calories to very low levels might
extend life span in
humans.
Long - term dietary supplements with a specific mixture of BCAAs have been shown to
extend life span in yeast and to mitigate age - related disorders in animals, including
humans.
In support of this concept, we have shown that mtDNA mutations accumulate in proportion to
life span in several animals, that increasing mitochondrial anti-oxidant defense systems
extends lifespan, that ancient
human mtDNA variants that modify energy production and oxygen radical production can modulate longevity and risk for neurodegenerative diseases, and that patients with the neurodegenerative disease, Alzheimer Disease, have increased mtDNA mutations.
If, for example, there is a constraint on the
human life span, then efforts to
extend life expectancy beyond that duration would obviously be unproductive.
High doses of rapamycin are already used in
humans to fight cancer and prevent organ - transplant rejection, but at low doses, it has also been shown to slow aging and
extend life span in several animals with few or no side effects.
An important difference in
human vs. animal oncology is that the goal with
humans, due to our
extended life spans, is to cure the disease.
There's little doubt that
human - quality care has helped to
extend radically the
life span of pets.