20-12-2013, 11:52 AM
I'm very skeptical! I have a very strong background in the bio-medical and bio-sciences, and once took a course in the biology of aging. There are many more factors than they mention that cause 'aging' in cells and thus in the body. EVEN IF one could reduce the rate of or reverse one [or a few], there are others - some of which are external [such as DNA accumulated damage from time, chemicals and radiation - to name one] - and I think we are a LONG way from greatly lengthening life with any quality and certainly further from living virtually forever. Given the way things are going politically, financially and environmentally, I ask: who the hell wants to live a VERY long life, anyway, any more!?
Back in the later '50s and early '60s, when I was young, I often thought how I'd like to live to be 100 or more. Now, I think I'd not care to push much past 75. As an American, I have no pension [typical], no health insurance - Obamacare notwithstanding [typical], no nest egg [typical] and slowly declining health......AND there is no social safety net in the USA to speak of and what tiny itsy-bitsy one there is for SOME, is rapidly being eliminated. Your situation may vary by country and situation.
Back in the later '50s and early '60s, when I was young, I often thought how I'd like to live to be 100 or more. Now, I think I'd not care to push much past 75. As an American, I have no pension [typical], no health insurance - Obamacare notwithstanding [typical], no nest egg [typical] and slowly declining health......AND there is no social safety net in the USA to speak of and what tiny itsy-bitsy one there is for SOME, is rapidly being eliminated. Your situation may vary by country and situation.
"Let me issue and control a nation's money and I care not who writes the laws. - Mayer Rothschild
"Civil disobedience is not our problem. Our problem is civil obedience! People are obedient in the face of poverty, starvation, stupidity, war, and cruelty. Our problem is that grand thieves are running the country. That's our problem!" - Howard Zinn
"If there is no struggle there is no progress. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and never will" - Frederick Douglass
"Civil disobedience is not our problem. Our problem is civil obedience! People are obedient in the face of poverty, starvation, stupidity, war, and cruelty. Our problem is that grand thieves are running the country. That's our problem!" - Howard Zinn
"If there is no struggle there is no progress. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and never will" - Frederick Douglass