Deep Dive: How Close Are We to Living Longer?

Cancer, heart disease, dementia, and type 2 diabetes are funded, researched, and treated as separate problems. However, they share one underlying driver…

Cancer, heart disease, dementia, and type 2 diabetes are funded, researched, and treated as separate problems. However, they share one underlying driver: age. It is the single largest risk factor for many of the diseases that kill people in the modern world, ahead of smoking, blood pressure, or cholesterol. Cure cancer outright, and average life expectancy rises only about three years, because the underlying risk keeps compounding. This is one of the premises behind longevity biotech: if aging is the one biological process that drives many diseases at once, then slowing it could delay all…