Can We Live to 1000 years old?
Posted 09-07-2007 at 11:17 AM by oBWhat
What do you guys think of people like Aubrey de Grey who thinks we can live to 1000....
There is very little known about aging, even the telomere hypothesis has shriveled.
He thinks we can solve it like this:
"Start with, say, lyso-some dysfunction, in which a cell’s waste-burning organelle, or component, becomes overwhelmed and unable to do its job. That job, as he describes it, is burning up lipofuscin, a nearly indissoluble after-product of metabolism. Now look for the wide-ranging disease possibilities inherent in that breakdown. In the case of lysosome dysfunction, he says, this can range from atherosclerosis (because the immune cells that attack inflamed arterial plaque can’t process the waste and instead rupture and blow up), to macular degeneration (because of lipofuscin-like build-up behind the lens), to Alzheimer’s (wherein cells can’t keep up the policing of errant plaques and proteins that build up and impair neuronal health)."
I am not sure this can be done, and if it can how?
There is very little known about aging, even the telomere hypothesis has shriveled.
He thinks we can solve it like this:
"Start with, say, lyso-some dysfunction, in which a cell’s waste-burning organelle, or component, becomes overwhelmed and unable to do its job. That job, as he describes it, is burning up lipofuscin, a nearly indissoluble after-product of metabolism. Now look for the wide-ranging disease possibilities inherent in that breakdown. In the case of lysosome dysfunction, he says, this can range from atherosclerosis (because the immune cells that attack inflamed arterial plaque can’t process the waste and instead rupture and blow up), to macular degeneration (because of lipofuscin-like build-up behind the lens), to Alzheimer’s (wherein cells can’t keep up the policing of errant plaques and proteins that build up and impair neuronal health)."
I am not sure this can be done, and if it can how?
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