The next 25 years will witness the largest-ever increase in our elderly population, especially those living an active life. Yet research on successful aging has lagged behind that of age-related diseases. Although successful aging involves both mental and physical health, new research suggests that the critical component of successful aging is related to brain and mind. Dr. Dilip Jeste shares the latest research and reviews some evidence-based strategies for successful aging. Series: SIRA (Sam and Rose Stein Institute for Research on Aging) [8/2008] [Health and Medicine] [Show ID: 14202]
Human body exponentially beeing suicidal after 27th birthday. Slow metabolism, less hormones, stem-cells do not do maitanence due to bad signaling, junk accumulates.
Imagine a single human as a yellow dying leaf, and human population as a bush. Bush looses leaves because of winter. It's a program, hormone is beeing sent so leaf would die and fall.
I'm sure, that most breakthroughs were made by people before their 40th.
Aging is a long, painful death. It must be cured, not cherished.
evgeniy13 2 years ago
Wow, you are so uniniformed regarding healthy aging. There have been numerous studies in healthy aging. I cannot see how you still believe that aging is a disease. Start looking at aging with an asset model for successful aging instead of the outmoded deficit model. Remember most geniuses, artists, authors etc have accomplished their greatest works well into their 80's and 90's.
CreativeAgingNetwork 2 years ago
There could be not such thing as successful aging. It's like "Successful heart attack", "Successful dementia", "Successful cancer" and "Successful death".
Successful aging = fallacy.
Yes. aging is a disease, and it will be cured by SENS-alike therapy in the future, and can be prevented by resveratrol or caloric restriction now, combined with growth hormone consumption.
Modern geriatrics and gerontology unable to help people with their health, and I'm wrecking my mind what are these two for.
evgeniy13 2 years ago