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The Rejuvenation Breakthroughs That Could Reverse Human Aging in Our Lifetime
St. Martin's Press
September 2007
On Sale: September 4, 2007
400 pages ISBN: 0312367066 EAN: 9780312367060 Kindle: B001ANSSKA Hardcover / e-Book
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MUST WE AGE? A long life in a healthy,
vigorous, youthful body has always been one of humanity’s
greatest dreams. Recent progress in genetic manipulations
and calorie-restricted diets in laboratory animals hold
forth the promise that someday science will enable us to
exert total control over our own biological aging.
Nearly all scientists who study the biology of aging agree
that we will someday be able to substantially slow down the
aging process, extending our productive, youthful lives. Dr.
Aubrey de Grey is perhaps the most bullish of all such
researchers. As has been reported in media outlets ranging
from 60 Minutes to The New York Times, Dr. de
Grey believes that the key biomedical technology required to
eliminate aging-derived debilitation and death
entirely—technology that would not only slow but
periodically reverse age-related physiological decay,
leaving us biologically young into an indefinite future—is
now within reach. In Ending Aging, Dr. de
Grey and his research assistant Michael Rae describe the
details of this biotechnology. They explain that the aging
of the human body, just like the aging of man-made machines,
results from an accumulation of various types of damage. As
with man-made machines, this damage can periodically be
repaired, leading to indefinite extension of the machine’s
fully functional lifetime, just as is routinely done with
classic cars. We already know what types of damage
accumulate in the human body, and we are moving rapidly
toward the comprehensive development of technologies to
remove that damage. By demystifying aging and its
postponement for the nonspecialist reader, de Grey and Rae
systematically dismantle the fatalist presumption that aging
will forever defeat the efforts of medical science.
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