Much of the anti\u002Daging focus isn’t about radical life extension, but rather about dodging the bad stuff until the final years of life
It’s largely a benefit of the rich and the middle class, said bioethicist Arthur Caplan. “In some countries, if you make it to 50 you’re lucky.” The poor do not live longer, said Caplan, head of medical ethics at NYU Grossman School of Medicine. Almost eight million adults in Canada are obese. Moderate obesity takes, on average,Women generally outlive men. Those kinds of demographics get lost in the “80 is the new 60” buzz, Caplan said.
Much of the anti-aging focus isn’t about radical life extension or ageless bodies envisioned by immortalists, but rather about “compressing morbidity,” dodging the bad stuff until the final years of life and slowing the onset of age-related dysfunction, so that people live well, and then die suddenly. You’re here, and then you’re not.
Inflammaging, or inflamm-aging, a chronic, low-grade inflammation that accumulates over time through diet, infections and environmental exposures, has also been implicated. Still, there’s no one, tidy biological mechanism to explain biological aging, said Parminder Raina, a professor at McMaster University and lead principal investigator of the Canadian Longitudinal Study on Aging.
In a recent virtual chat, Perls appealed to his centenarians and their families to send his team samples of their feces. Perls thinks it’s a pretty sure bet that different populations of bacteria in the gut and the substances those bacteria produce are playing a role in slowing or accelerating aging.
Pearls also thinks avoiding, or at least limiting, red meat is a good idea. Sinclair’s tips for keeping body and mind in optimal shape include exercising between 10 to 30 minutes three times a week at an intensity that causes you to pant, a little fasting and good sleep. Personality traits also seem to matter.
He and others said we need new ways of thinking about policies and social programs, like old age pensions. “We assume everybody over 65 is declining. That’s not the case. It is a way more heterogeneous population than their kids.”Article content
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