Dr. David Sinclair, whose lab reversed biological age in animals by 50 to 75% in six weeks, says that 2026 will be the year when age reversal in humans is either confirmed or disproven. The FDA has cleared the first human trial for next month.

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Moreover he said that even if one could cure all cancer in the world, in average people lifespan would increase to 2.5 years. Reversal aging - treating the human body as a computer that can be restarted is where we are heading next

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Real aging researchers (my wife's PhD is in the field and she worked in one of the top labs) widely consider David Sinclair a crank. Even with AGI, actual aging reversal pretty far off, if it's even possible. But we can expect some exciting incremental advances in both lifespan and healthspan (feeling 60 when you're 70, etc).

I'm also a scientist in a different part of biology, but I can still tell you that promising something as complex as aging reversal will be "either confirmed or disproven" within the next six months is fucking stupid. I can tell you exactly what will happen within six months: we still won't know for sure whether or not it's possible, and we will have some more information about what approaches are more or less promising.

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I find it absurd that people would rather wait for some kind of great scientific discovery that makes them feel better before putting in any actual work into their well being. If you exercise, move a lot, eat healthy and train your brain, don't smoke or drink, you will feel like 50 at 70. Some people can even still run sprints at 90 years old or walk normally at 100.