The Fountain Of Youth - Come on in, the water's fine!

For all of time, aging has brought the inevitable and unstoppable decay of health. Until very recently, we’ve accepted aging as a natural process beyond the reach of medical intervention. Today, a growing movement of organizations around the world are dedicated to understanding and conquering aging. Even though we don’t widely refer to aging as a disease, we now have reason to believe that all the diseases of aging have the same underlying causes, and this has sparked a new industry. Geriatrics and gerontology barely ameliorate age-related disease, and are incapable of curing them. People are kept alive, but their suffering is prolonged, their health continues its steady decline, and the unsustainable cost of care is escalating to crushing levels. Today our ever-advancing technology has finally brought us to a time in human history where we have the potential to do something about it. This talk explores why most of humans still resist the idea of curing aging.

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