Aubrey sketches a model of the normal use of the human body. In this the metabolism, say the balanced total of human existence, goes into a new state called ‘damage’ in which damage is done to the body. Then we can still live normally, but almost solely from this state are we vulnerable to diseases which eventually mean the end of our lives.
His model focuses on reducing the damage done to its original state. Since 1982 exactly 7 damage-doers have been identified. For all damage done by one of these damage-doers Aubrey is developing a remedy: how to undo the damage. He’s developing 7 undoers. Currently for rats, soon with humans. It may take a year or twenty, but his model shows that humans can live forever.
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Of course this is perfect for futurists. A young body, but with the experiences of someone of 40, 140, 1040? What are you going to learn from your parents of 340 and 920? Will you be going to school at all? Will you be having children because it always postpones because it’s always possible? Or will you make families dozens of times throughout your life? For fun? What’s raising a child for twenty years in all of your life? What happens to 300-year-old friendships? What happens to the world population? The numbers will rise rapidly? Before you know it we’ll be over 100 billion. The world definitely won’t be able to take that. The enthusiastic reactions of the futurists were that the only solution lies in colonizing space. We have to. A very special scenario, but if we believe this man definitely not unrealistic. Not in 2010, maybe not in 2030, but around 2050, the time of the pamper planet, people up to the age of 50 can be restored to a young existence and live forever. Readers of this blog are warned: stay healthy and live forever or make a few health errors and belong to the last generation of mortals.
By the by, Aubrey is still looking for rich sponsors and will come to Leiden to speak at a biogerontology congress soon.