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THE Science of SLOW AGEING
We are living longer, but are we living better? The latest enzyme treatments could see our bodies’ ageing progress slow down drastically.
Words by Nadine Dilong
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geing is inevitable – or is it? According to professor of genetics at Harvard Medical School, David Sinclair, PhD, there is “no biological law that says we must age,” and he even goes so far to call ageing “a disease.” In a recent interview with Inside Tracker, Sinclair explains: “The regulatory definition, currently, is that ageing is something different than a disease. The reason is that even though it satisfies the criteria of a disease – which is a decline in function over time leading to death – ageing is separated because it happens to more than 50% of us. And I’d argue that just because ageing happens to more than half of us, is no reason to not include it as a disease. In fact, I would say it’s even more important that we work on trying to combat it, because ageing is the main cause of all major diseases in society now.” It’s a pretty bold statement, but Sinclair is certainly not alone in his quest for eternal life, or at least, prolonged life. Australia’s pioneer in integrative and holistic medicine, Prof Marc Cohen, says “scientific developments will allow us to live much longer than we currently do and potentially live forever in the digital and possibly the physical world. This however will radically redefine what it means and there are many projects going on across the world to do exactly this.” “Ageing and the irreversible passage of time is intimately linked to entropy, which is the natural tendency for any closed system to deteriorate. To slow ageing you therefore 68 | SPA+CLINIC
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