Bill Gates made a convincing argument for why improving human health is money well spent, and won't lead to overpopulation, in his 2018 video "Does S… - David A. Sinclair

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Bill Gates made a convincing argument for why improving human health is money well spent, and won't lead to overpopulation, in his 2018 video "Does Saving More Lives Lead to Overpopulation?"56 The short answer is: No.
If we were to stop all deaths — every single one around the globe — right now, we would add about 150,000 people to our planet each day. That would be 55 million people each year. That might sound like a lot, but it would be less than a single percentage point. At that rate, we would add a billion people to our ranks every eighteen years, which is still considerably slower than the rate at which the last few billion people have come along and easily countered by the global decline in family sizes.
It's still an increase, but it's not the sort of exponential growth many people fret about when they first encounter the idea of slowing aging.
Recall, these calculations are what we'd face if we ended all deaths right away. And although I'm very optimistic about the prospects for prolonged vitality, I'm not that optimistic. I don't know any reputable scientist who is.

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If you've had your genome analyzed, you can check if you have any of the known variations of FOXO3 that are associated with a long life.40 For example, having a C instead of a T variant at position rs2764264 is associated with longer life. Two of our children, Alex and Natalie, inherited two Cs at this position, one from Sandra and one from me, so all other genes being equal, and as long as they don't live terribly negative lifestyles, they should have greater odds of reaching age 95 than I do, with my one C and one T, and substantially greater than someone with two Ts.

And because aging isn't a disease by the commonly accepted definition, it doesn't fit nicely into the system we've built for funding medical research, drug development, and the reimbursement of medical costs by insurance companies. Words matter. Definitions matter.

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DELETING THE ZOMBIE SENESCENT CELLS IN OLD TISSUES. Thanks to the primordial survival circuit we've inherited from our ancestors, our cells eventually lose their identities and cease to divide, in some cases sitting in our tissues for decades. Zombie cells secrete factors that accelerate cancer, inflammation, and help turn other cells into zombies. Senescent cells are hard to reverse aging in, so the best thing to do is to kill them off. Drugs called senolytics are in development to do just that, and they could rapidly rejuvenate us.

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