[jmiskovic]

Scepticism is healthy. That said, aging affects 100% of population and is lethal. The amount of funding & effort should be orders of magnitude larger than for any of diseases you mentioned.

I'm reading through Sinclair's book "Lifespan - Why We Age and Why We Don’t Have To" and I find it fascinating (especially the chapter on origins of life and proto-genes of aging). When Sinclair talks about time-scales, he makes comparison to cancer. During last 50 years medicine went from fighting symptoms to actually addressing source for some cancer types. The quote that stood out: "From looks of it aging is not going to be that hard to treat, far easier than curing cancer". Book's predictions may feel too optimistic to me, but I don't have any qualifications to make such claim against leading researcher in field.

[t0s]

Interesting! Is this book approachable by someone who knows nothing regarding biology/medicine/etc ? Thanks

[kgin]

Very much so. It's written for an interested and intelligent general audience.