Background: what is Geroscience
Geroscience is like a dynamic detective duo! It teams up to solve the mysteries of aging and age-related diseases by exploring their biological roots hand in hand. Their mission? To unlock the secrets of longevity and keep those health issues at bay!
Connecting the Biology of Aging and the Biology of Disease
The biological processes of aging are the most significant risk factors for many chronic diseases and disabilities that affect us as we grow older. We can stay healthier longer by treating aging—not just age-related disease.
Hypothesis
The Geroscience hypothesis posits that since aging physiology plays a major role in many — if not all — chronic diseases, therapeutically addressing aging physiology directly will prevent the onset or mitigate the severity of multiple chronic diseases.
Value
The value of the Geroscinece approach lies in the well-established fact that older adults rarely suffer from a single disease. Rather, older adults often experience multi-morbidity. Since aging biology is the main driver of disease susceptibility, reduction in the rate of aging may delay the onset of multiple diseases at once.
Aims
The aims of Geroscience are to understand how aging processes enable diseases and to exploit that knowledge to slow the appearance and progression of age-related diseases and disabilities.
Goal
GoalThe main goal is to develop feasible, practical, and safe interventions to delay the appearance of multiple chronic diseases and conditions. Interventions that slow the aging processes would dramatically lower health care costs, perhaps more than the cure of any single disease, while significantly improving quality of life.
Reference:
afar.org https://www.afar.org/what-is-geroscience#:~:text=A%20research%20paradigm%20based%20in,of%20age%2Drelated%20diseases%20together
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