Aubrey De Grey: Clarifies On The Development Of Effective Regenerative Medicine (Video)

Mon, Jun 14, 2010

Anti Aging, Immortality, Longevity, Nanotechnology, Stem cells

Aubrey de Grey is an impressive research but considered by many as a maverick scientist. The truth is that he might be holding the key solution for boosting longevity to unimaginable heights. He outshines the crowd when it comes to advocating an astounding pathway towards healthier and longer life. It is through his non-profit institution known as SENS Foundation (Strategies for Engineered Negligible Senescence) that he devotes his time in developing regenerative drugs with the intent to overcome illnesses and disabilities related to aging.

Last year at TEDMED, Aubrey de Grey gave details of how a ‘Maintenance Approach” could boost longevity. It deploys a systematic methodology to address accumulating damages caused to our tissues (body) through the disease of ageing.

Regenerative Medicine: Video 1

The video from TEDMED (available below) will certainly make you poised and eager to see regenerative medicine curing aging.

The term regenerative medicine consists of a group of treatments from immune system training to complex genetic therapies. People are more familiar with stem cell therapy. It is attracting more public interest, and it involves growing new organs or even bodies in laboratories. It is an incredible technology which is already being used to grow organs such as the bladder.

These are all medical researches aimed at treating injuries or weaknesses that develop in our body. On this stance, Aubrey de Grey is suggesting that with a few additions to regenerative medicine, we will be able to assure fitness and healthiness of elders. The regenerative medicine will offer something far beyond our expectations. We will enjoy an exponential boost in longevity.

There are practically seven different classes of damages that occur within the body. These are outlined in the TEDMED Video (12:15). They are:

1. Junk – Inside Cells (unwanted bi-products of cells)
2. Junk – Outside Cells
3. Cells – Too few (cells are not replaced)
4. Cells – Too Many (cells expands to rapidly, a likely cause of cancer)
5. Mutations – Chromosomes
6. Mutation – Mitochondria
7. Protein Crosslink

In addressing the damages enlisted above, it is possible to address the accumulate damage occurring to a body. This might also put an end to the spell of aging.

The maintenance approach, suggests that repairing damage can enable us to live for quite some time. The best of it is that people will live in a healthy state. In essence, of his method to overcome the disease of aging, he supersedes the myth of old age frailness with the notion of complete healthiness.

Regenerative medicine is progressing fast and may very soon provide a repair mechanism at cellular levels. It is of paramount importance that people redefine and accept this new philosophy of aging. It might only be our apathy in supporting and engaging in this sort of research, which holds us back from an extreme enhancement in longevity.

Video 1 From TEDMED 2009 –