Lifespan: Why We Age—and Why We Don't Have To

Quest for reversing Ageing

Old age followed by death is considered as inevitable truth of human life. Scientists know for some time - that there is no law of physics, chemistry or biology that ordains it to be so.

Lifespan: Why we Age - and Why We Don't Have To

Billions of dollars are spent on researching cancer and heart diseases - but the truth is, even solving them forever, will increase average human lifespan just barely by an year. 'Ageing' by far is far more potent killer 'disease', but is accepted in society as 'untreatable' and 'inevitable'.

Solving ageing will perhaps be by far the biggest jump our species will take towards alleviating suffering & pain.

This author himself heads Harvard lab working on understanding & solving aging. He brings together the latest research which absolutely points to one conclusion - it will soon be possible to program human cells and bodies to be remain young forever. Diverse range of approaches have already identified the key biochemical clocks and at-least few ways to hack it.

The book rightly spends some time exploring social, political, cultural and ethical concerns of living till the ages of 150-200 years and eventually forever. These issues are great thought experiments to ponder over as well.

No wonder this space is getting hotter amongst thinkers, entrepreneurs and VCs.

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