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Aging: the geneticist and (almost) eternal life

2022-01-21T17:14:40.191Z


David Sinclair, Australian biologist and professor of genetics at Harvard Medical School is convinced that there is no fatality to aging.


Would you like to live a hundred and twenty, a hundred and thirty or even a hundred and fifty years?

This is the promise of Dr. David Sinclair, Australian biologist and professor of genetics at Harvard Medical School (USA).

Pope research on aging, he is convinced: there is no fatality to grow old or even to die, even less to spend his last years in poor health.

"Our genes did not evolve to cause aging

," and people would do well to see it as a disease at the root of all others.

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The time is near, says the researcher, when science will be able to offer everyone anti-aging pills allowing us to prolong as much as we want an active, fit and happy existence.

Genetic instability, telomere wear, cellular disorders… The signs (and causes?) of aging are numerous, but Sinclair has built a (controversial) theory that unifies them:

“Aging, very simply, is a loss of information”…

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Source: lefigaro

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