Many of us are figuring out how to have max impact towards curing aging.
Where are we towards this goal? Generally, humanity has good tactics to live to 70-80 or so in a healthy way. At that point, diseases of age take over, including neurodegeneration, cancer, heart disease, aches and pains, frailty, and much more. There’s a long way to go.
What’s on the horizon? There are 100s/1000s of labs and 100s of companies working directly on aging. These will bring new ideas and medicines to approval. There are far more teams and companies working on enabling tech: genomics, AI, drug delivery, pharma. These will bring new tools to bear on the problem.
What should we do to have max impact in our lifetimes? My answer is to take a big swing on an exciting new technology (non-Yamanaka transcription factors for tissue-specific rejuvenation) and see where it goes. That’s what I’m doing at Junevity, putting all my professional effort and resources to make it happen.
A general answer is to put your time and money in this field, and see where it leads.