Comments on: Aging Reversed?

By: https://me.yahoo.com/a/QJc1ars2xtyg8_HamezpRq6vslfI6cw-#06cd1

https://me.yahoo.com/a/QJc1ars2xtyg8_HamezpRq6vslfI6cw-#06cd1 — Tue, 30 Nov 2010 09:38:14 +0000

I’m Sally Morem

Some researchers think cancer will help us with aging research. Cancer apparently resets cells so that they are more like embryotic cells, no longer specialized, older cells. If researchers can figure out how to do the same safely, they could regrow damaged limbs and organs, and make the entire body young again.

By: stephentg

stephentg — Mon, 29 Nov 2010 20:27:10 +0000

Technology like this often starts expensive and only marginally effective. It quickly gets cheaper and better at the same time.

Revolutions tend to occur because of permanent inequity. I would guess that by the time that a revolution got organized, the tech would be avaiable to everyone.

By: https://www.google.com/accounts/o8/id?id=AItOawk4bpEgP3ML8tptpfdd6EPvJrkpTLFfcj0

https://www.google.com/accounts/o8/id?id=AItOawk4bpEgP3ML8tptpfdd6EPvJrkpTLFfcj0 — Mon, 29 Nov 2010 16:20:01 +0000

Suppose age-reversal were to become available at an enormous cost. Whom do you suppose would be the first to receive it? Would there be a revolution if it were provided only to the wealthy?

By: stephentg

stephentg — Mon, 29 Nov 2010 12:07:49 +0000

One theory of aging is that it, aging, works to defeat cancer. Whether potentially cancerous cells commit suicide, or whether cancerous cells are attacked and killed by the immune system, the result is the same – dead cells. Accumulate enough dead cells and you get an aged and infirm body.

But with cancer as an ever-present threat, we face the ironic possibility that we live as long as we do because we age.

What if a treatment like this worked great but left the patient dead of cancer in a year or two?

My guess is that this treatment would not be given to cancer patients. And those patients who would be given this care might first have to undergo prophylactic chemotherapy.