Disease or Not, Aging is Easily Treatable

Overview

Journal Aging (Albany NY)

Specialty Geriatrics

Date 2018 Nov 19

PMID 30448823

Citations 29

Authors

Mikhail V Blagosklonny

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Abstract

Is aging a disease? It does not matter because aging is already treated using a combination of several clinically-available drugs, including rapamycin. Whether aging is a disease depends on arbitrary definitions of both disease and aging. For treatment purposes, aging is a deadly disease (or more generally, pre-disease), despite being a normal continuation of normal organismal growth. It must and, importantly, can be successfully treated, thereby delaying classic age-related diseases such as cancer, cardiovascular and metabolic diseases, and neurodegeneration.

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