I was blog-hopping today and I found this article, “Living Well, Indefinitely” that has really given me a headache.

You know how cloning’s very controversial? I think this “escaping aging” thing is rather controversial too, don’t you think? If you are interested in learning more about how this can be done, you might want to watch the TED Talk for this one:

How Can Aging Be Stopped?

From what I understand, we now have the technological means necessary to stop aging. I also understand that we age because our cells get damaged over time, and that they can only split a finite number of times.

The answer to stopping aging or at least slow it down is to reduce this damage or at least repair it through the use of nanotechnology and the knowledge gathered from the infamous stem-cell research.

Why Should Aging Be Stopped?

I found out something interesting as I was doing my research. It turns out that other diseases like Cancer and Heart Disease are age-related. Thus if we were able to reduce the effects of aging, these two big killers would pose less of a threat.

Is It Ethical To Stop Aging?

This is the part that’s giving me headaches. You see, at first I thought if we were to engineer our cells to split more times than it should, it would in effect be acting God.

However, as I read more articles it seems to me that aging is in effect a disease. Thus, I think it’s no more playing God than say the Asthma inhalers I’m using (without which I should have been dead at least 10 times over.)

Moreover, since it has the benefits of stopping the 2 biggest killers of Mankind, I think it’s about time we did some serious research on it.

P.S. This short entry may not relate to self-improvement but it is done in my support of serious research needed on the aging process

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