Editorial Review:

MUST WE AGE?
      A long life in a healthy, vigorous, youthful body has always been one of humanity's greatest dreams. Recent progress in genetic manipulations and calorie-restricted diets in laboratory animals hold forth the promise that someday science will enable us to exert total control over our own biological aging.
      Nearly all scientists who study the biology of aging agree that we will someday be able to substantially slow down the aging process, extending our productive, youthful lives. Dr. Aubrey de Grey is perhaps the most bullish of all such researchers. As has been reported in media outlets ranging from 60 Minutes to The New York Times, Dr. de Grey believes that the key biomedical technology required to eliminate aging-derived debilitation and death entirely--technology that would not only slow but periodically reverse age-related physiological decay, leaving us biologically young into an indefinite future--is now within reach.
 
In Ending Aging, Dr. de Grey and his research assistant Michael Rae describe the details of this biotechnology. They explain that the aging of the human body, just like the aging of man-made machines, results from an accumulation of various types of damage.  As with man-made machines, this damage can periodically be repaired, leading to indefinite extension of the machine's fully functional lifetime, just as is routinely done with classic cars.  We already know what types of damage accumulate in the human body, and we are moving rapidly toward the comprehensive development of technologies to remove that damage.  By demystifying aging and its postponement for the nonspecialist reader, de Grey and Rae systematically dismantle the fatalist presumption that aging will forever defeat the efforts of medical science.

Customer Reviews:

Avg. Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0

Definately eye opening and inspiring:

I like the approach the author took, its not just a list of products or what to wear. It actually gives you a scientific look at the cause of aging.

Important; probably exaggerates a bit:

This book makes a strong argument that the most important medical need in developed countries is to cure the damage associated with aging, rather than to combat the diseases which become serious as a result of that damage. It outlines a set of solutions which, if they can be implemented, look like they would add at least a decade or two to healthy lifespans.
All of the solutions look like they have a reasonable chance of being implemented within 20 years. But the probability of all of them working... more info

A very important view for current generations:

This book contains very important points which should be considered by everyone who cares for himself and others.
Research in healthy life extension, which means curing diseases and fixing aging, is THE most important thing for humanity to do for itself, as what are life if they end?
In the book very realistic scientific views which show us how to move towards fixing aging and other important diseases, stay alive, healthy and young forever.

Clear and detailed road-map towards finding a cure for aging.:

Clear and detailed road-map towards finding a cure for aging.
Aubrey De Grey has writen a fascinating analysis of the specific problems and challanges that we need to overcome in order to win the "war on aging". This is neither science fiction nor a vision for a distant future. Humans can obtain the ability to stay young forever within the next 20-30 years. This book explains how.

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