Slowing down the aging process.

@alokn99 (5717)
India
July 3, 2009 3:47am CST
I've given the link below of an article, which talked about scientists discovering leads to a biological "Fountain of Youth" . The research is based on bats living longer than mice and certain protiens being responsible for them. There is a lot of excitement on the thought of slowing down the aging process. If there was significant progress and development on this in your lifetime, would you consider slowing down your aging process ? What would make you want to do so ? http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/156047.php
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mimpi
@mimpi1911 (25464)
• India
3 Jul 09
That would be revolutionary but I am apprehensive about execution and the after math. After all who doesn't want to live longer but the question is HOW. The quality and the true meaning of life is most important and if that is validated that I think it will be a hit. The fact that this is still on its premature period and thousand of things could come up in between, I rather would not contemplate on that. This would be a good thing for people who are fit and fine and want to live longer with mature biological age. But then, don't you think this would also increase violence relating to property, legacy.., among the kins? WE never know...
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alokn99
@alokn99 (5717)
• India
3 Jul 09
Yes it would make those waiting for inheritance to wait longer. There are a lot of societal changes which would also come about. You are right about the quality of life. People who have had a good quality of life would want to get more of it. There ae too many if's an but's which arise though. Today we plan for life assuming that 70 or so is good age to live upto. If that changes to a 90, a lot of things would change.
alokn99
@alokn99 (5717)
• India
3 Jul 09
Those would be most welcome progress and discoveries. The list of fatal and degenerating illness keeps getting longer. If only they come out with some in the very near future. So many children can get a chance at experiencing the the joys of life.
suspenseful
@suspenseful (40192)
• Canada
3 Jul 09
I would be more interested in a process that renews the fallopian tubes when they are destroyed by vd, and other diseases, that delays the aging of eggs that are in a woman's body, and puts us in the position where women were still able to conceive and bear normal children even into their seventies. (I am sure that Sarah was not 50 when she entered menopause but much older.) Oh and that makes them healthy and gives them the minds of younger men and women. Because what good is it to live to 100 and beyond if all we have a lot of old men and women even though they look 20 years younger and just have a planet full of adults, and the majority of them being rather sterile?
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alokn99
@alokn99 (5717)
• India
4 Jul 09
That's a very valid point. The entire biological processess if changed and enhanced for the better along with the slowing down of the aging process would make the quality of life better. Thanks
James72
@James72 (26790)
• Australia
3 Jul 09
Bats of all things! Is this why Batman is such a tour de force? lol. I've always believed that cancer and other incurable diseases will be defeated by remedies concocted from things that've been under our noses the entire time and this situation only strengthens my belief even moreso. As for wishing to slow down my own aging, I guess it would all come down to my quality of life in other areas first. Also, if I had friends and family all long gone, why would I wish to continue on just for the sake of doing so? So many people are obsessed with extending human life spans, but the main focus should really be on quality of life rather than this. World hunger, disease, over-population etc is what ultimately needs to be addressed because there's no point having millions of people live to be 150 if the world can't sustain them!
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alokn99
@alokn99 (5717)
• India
3 Jul 09
That's a very valid point you have made James. What's the point of having to slow down the aging process, when more importance should be given to improving the quality of life. Thanks
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Nyankeeman
@Nyankeeman (48)
• United States
4 Jul 09
There are things to change the APPEARANCE of your age, however you will never get YOUNGER! I dont see the point in changing your appearance