Key points from article :
Biologist Andrew Steele began his professional life as a physicist.
Spent the past 3 years researching a book about bio-gerontology - the scientific study of ageing.
Wrote a book "Ageless: The New Science of Getting Older Without Getting Old".
“The dream of anti-ageing medicine,” he writes “is treatments that would identify the root causes of dysfunction as we get older, then slow their progression or reverse them entirely.”
These root causes are what biogerontologists call hallmarks.
“I think we are very likely to have a drug that treats ageing in the next 10 years.” - Andrew Steele.
Hurdle in biogerontology’s success – “ bias toward the status quo” of ageing as an inevitable process.
Biogerontology might change the role of medicine, from being primarily reactive to primarily preventive.
Hopes that his book Ageless may convince the public that ageing is a problem to be fixed.
