>>14320931Sure, I got that number based on the some of the people that have lived to be around that age. Given most people do not live to that age suggests there could be some easy gains here to get people to live to around there being healthy.
Let me give you one example. Collagen in humans is a protein that is the greatest % of all proteins in the body. Like most proteins genetic errors can cause them to misfold. So by correcting protein misfolding in collagen you effectively can correct a big age based degradation in the body. The low hanging fruit. There are over 20 thousand important proteins in the body. All of them are going to start having misfolding issues as you age.
Where does that leave us? We can correct the most important misfolded proteins, the low hanging fruit, but we can't fix the rotting tree as every cell in your body has DNA that slowly fails in doing its job. Even gene therapy has the same problem. You can fix some (protein encoding), but it will be extremely difficult to correct the so called junk DNA which regulates when and how to use said proteins. The DNA is the tree rot.
