"A dying man needs to die, as a sleepy man needs to
sleep, and there comes a time when it is wrong, as well as useless, to
resist."
Stewart Alsop |
| Could there be a 'cure' for ageing? |
In the near future people will be living even longer than people today, a thought which is both a good thing and a bad thing - we will be able to live longer and achieve more, however what happens to our home planet, Earth, with all these people.
Recently it was predicted that the seven billionth child was born in the world, an event that I have lived through.
A 2000 study conducted by the United Nations predicted that the Earth's population was growing at 1.14% - a staggering amount considering the size of the Earth's population. As technology, health care and understanding of the human body advances every year I can only imagine a future where human beings will live to ages far beyond ours.
The race for the fountain of youth is any ones game.
We've always perceived the fountain of youth as a physical spring that will grant the person that bathes in it's miraculous waters eternal life, however nowadays the 'sci-fi' drug that can keep us alive forever may be the new view of the fountain of youth.
There are all sorts of theories and 'hints' given to us by the centenarians of our world ranging from the plausible such as drink a glass of milk every day, drink a glass of green tea every day, follow a healthy diet etc. or the plain bizarre - drink a glass of whiskey every day (somehow I don't think this will work ...).
Recently it was predicted that the seven billionth child was born in the world, an event that I have lived through.
A 2000 study conducted by the United Nations predicted that the Earth's population was growing at 1.14% - a staggering amount considering the size of the Earth's population. As technology, health care and understanding of the human body advances every year I can only imagine a future where human beings will live to ages far beyond ours.
The race for the fountain of youth is any ones game.
We've always perceived the fountain of youth as a physical spring that will grant the person that bathes in it's miraculous waters eternal life, however nowadays the 'sci-fi' drug that can keep us alive forever may be the new view of the fountain of youth.
There are all sorts of theories and 'hints' given to us by the centenarians of our world ranging from the plausible such as drink a glass of milk every day, drink a glass of green tea every day, follow a healthy diet etc. or the plain bizarre - drink a glass of whiskey every day (somehow I don't think this will work ...).
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| A simple drug to help us live longer? |
But what could be the true path to this 'gift of the gods', the true path to eternal age?
One such drug, called Lenalidomide claim to boost age through the vast improvement of the immune system which can battle a variety of problems occurring around old age. Chemicals involved in the immune system called cytokines may play a part in the race for eternal youth; when levels stay fairly constant in the body over years it can be predicted that you will age healthily however if levels decrease the immune system could falter which 'fountain of youth' drugs could help.
As the fountain of youth and methods of eternal youth are shown to us though many films it seems nice for us to wonder what the world would be like if we could escape the grasp of death, even for a little while. However while no solid evidence of an 'eternal youth drug' exists at present wondering is all we can do.
Thanks for reading, Chris.
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