Breakthrough study suggests it might be impossible to reverse aging
Life expectancy has increased dramatically in the past few hundred years, as humans have improved living conditions and medical treatments. However, living longer isn’t the endgame, as many research projects are looking at preventing or even reversing the process of aging.
Some researchers might have figured out how to reverse aging in the brain. Others think they’ve discovered the genetic keys needed to reverse aging. But brand new research indicates that humans, like many other species, are doomed to age. The process might be unstoppable and our ability to slow down aging might be limited, according to a breakthrough study.
Published in Nature, the new study seems to indicate that immortality and everlasting youths might be just myths. Biological constraints might make it impossible to slow the rate at which we age, according to the new findings.
Researchers from 14 countries, including scientists from the University of Oxford, tested out the “invariant rate of aging” hypothesis. The theory says that a species has a fixed rate of aging from adulthood, and the study seems to confirm it.
“Our findings support the theory that, rather than slowing down death, more people are living much longer due to a reduction in mortality at younger ages,” José Manuel Aburto told The Guardian. Oxford’s Leverhulme Centre for Demographic Science scientists analyzed age-specific birth and death data spanning centuries and continents.
