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They gained about 3 years from increased lifespan from medicine in that period. An interesting thing they looked at was ya but is this just keeping an elderly person alive longer in that state? So they figured out ways to study that by seeing how long people are remaining mobile and active. They found the gain was 2.5 years in people staying active.
Life extension wouldn't work by keeping someone alive in an elderly state, because its too likely they would die while in that state. You have to actually slow down aging, or better to reverse damage from aging.
Say some guy his insulin system was going downhill in his 30's. And it would eventually kill him at like 55 or something. But with medicine you stop his insulin system from going downhill and now he lives to 75 when eventually other things get him. Has he gotten life extending medicine.. yes in his case it would be a remarkable 20 years of extra life.
Is he rejuvenated. Basically he is going to just be healthier than otherwise with a well functioning insulin system, versus one that keeps going downhill. That going downhill is going to have a lot of effects on other organ systems in his body. Its not like without medicine he would live from 35 to 55 in perfect health and then suddenly die from it. It would be gradually breaking down his health along the way.
Life extension wouldn't work by keeping someone alive in an elderly state, because its too likely they would die while in that state. You have to actually slow down aging, or better to reverse damage from aging.
Say some guy his insulin system was going downhill in his 30's. And it would eventually kill him at like 55 or something. But with medicine you stop his insulin system from going downhill and now he lives to 75 when eventually other things get him. Has he gotten life extending medicine.. yes in his case it would be a remarkable 20 years of extra life.
Is he rejuvenated. Basically he is going to just be healthier than otherwise with a well functioning insulin system, versus one that keeps going downhill. That going downhill is going to have a lot of effects on other organ systems in his body. Its not like without medicine he would live from 35 to 55 in perfect health and then suddenly die from it. It would be gradually breaking down his health along the way.
