@Gianna96 18 August 2021 more from that month

If you had to choose right now,how long would you want to live? 80 years? 90 years? 120? Longer? and do you think you will change your mind once you reach that age? 50,000 years ago most human died very young. and we learnt how to use the research around us to treat ourselves, this got better and better. Today, humans are living longer and healthier lives then ever before.but this has an unforeseen consequence.Wr spend is an ever-increasing part of our lives being sick and in need of care. most of us will die in a hospital bed which is depressing enough by itself.but we also have to witness the same happening to our loved ones. except maybe we can stop this forever. the most effective way to treat a disease is to prevent it.it saves many more lives if you stop a million people from smoking, then coming up with better chemotherapies. so why not put a halt to the cause of all disease:the process of aging. In a nutshell, aging is caused by physics and not biology. Think of cars. Parts wear down from rubbing and grinding. Metal rusts. Filters get plugged. Rubber cracks.Our bodies are worn down by trillions of tiny physical processes.Oxygen, radiation from the sun, our metabolism.Our bodies have many mechanisms to repair this damage,but over time they become less effective.So our bones and muscles weaken. Our skin wrinkles. Our immune system gets weaker.we lose our memory and our sense diminish. There's no such thing as dying of old age. We all die because one of our important parts breaks.The older we get, the more damaged and fragile we become until one or multiple diseases take over and kill us.Unnoticed by most of us, longevity research has made some unprecedented advances in the last few years.For the first time, we're starting to understand the mechanisms behind aging and how to manipulate them.Aging is neither mystical nor inevitable, and we might be able to stop or delay it during your lifetime.But first, if we could, should we end aging? Is this a good idea?The end of aging or life extension makes many people uncomfortable.we are born,are young, become older and then we die.This has been the natural order for literally all of human history, ATP and getting old is a good thing, right?We celebrate the idea of living long enough to experience old age. We even call them the golden years.But the reality is that everybody wants to become old, but nobody wants to be old. If you imagine a world without disease where you and your loved ones could live in good health for another 100 or 200 years, how would this change us?Would we take better care of our planet if we knew we would be around longer?If we could work for 150 years, how much time would we spend figuring out what we're good at? How much more time would we spend learning?Would the intense feeling of pressure and stress many of us are feeling right now, go away or get worse? So asking again, if you could choose how long to live right now, in good health and with your friends and family, what's your personal answer? What would you like your future to look like? But maybe you’re still unconvinced. Some nagging feeling remains. That is the Reaper whispering into your brain. #RandomThoughts