NFX Bio · A talk by Omri Amirav-Drory, PhD
The plan to
end aging.
There are four plans. Three of them you’re already familiar with. Scroll for the short version, or go straight to the one that works.
Why aging is the target
Aging sucks.
Aging underpins 9 of the 10 leading causes of death
Treat aging upstream, not each disease downstream.
There are four plans.
Everybody is on one of them.
- DDeath
- CCryonics
- BBioengineering
- ARepair
Plan DDeath
The default Everyone is on this plan until they do something about it.
So why not change that?
Optimization can help. But it's not rejuvenation.
It's not going to dramatically extend healthspan.
Plan CCryonics
Freeze yourself now and let a future generation figure out the rest.
We need better solutions now.
Plan BBioengineering
This is most of medicine today. It works, and it adds years.
Disease-specific medicine is the best thing we have right now. It’s just not the whole answer.
Cure one disease. Another becomes the bottleneck.
Plan ARepair
Only Plan A is designed to outrun aging.
Here's how it works:
Reprogram→Regenerate→Replace