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Biden administration proposed $6.5 billion Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H).
Aim to deliver breakthrough treatments for diseases like Alzheimer’s, cancer and diabetes.
Congress may water down funding to less than half the requested amount.
New agency will largely continue the outdated “disease first” culture.
But nearly every major cause of death in the United States has age as its greatest risk factor.
Going from 40 to 70 increases your risk of dying by:
- 40x for cancer
- 30x for heart disease
- 300x for Alzheimer’s disease
High blood pressure and obesity increase your risk by less than threefold.
Less than one percent of the NIH budget goes toward studying the biology of aging.
Geroscience seeks to maintain optimum health by attenuating the molecular causes of biological aging directly.
Recent study estimated the cost savings of increasing healthy life expectancy by one year = $38 trillion annually.
