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Aging

Aging

From an evolutionary perspective, we only live as long as we need to replace ourselves efficiently. For example:

  • Mice live 2-3 years. They divert most of their resources into reproducing rapidly and little into preserving their bodies.
  • Whales live hundreds of years because they're at the top of the food chain and they can live as long as they want. So they breed slowly and build a body that lasts.
  • We, as humans, are somewhere in between mice and whales.

From a biological perspective, there's no maximum to human lifespan. There's nothing that says biological organisms have to die.

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TIL diseases show up more often in older people because of aging. It's causation, not correlation 🀯 So if we slow down aging, we decrease the risk for many age-related diseases

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