I think I solved immortality and we currently have all of the technology and I need people who know what they’re talking about to tell me I’m wrong and why.
Alright, so here’s what I’m thinking. Mainly two points: aging and cancer. As I understand it, we age due to our telemere buffer shortening. Which, as I understand it, is like a safety buffer to the DNA that is the real meat and potatoes of who we are. And cancer, as I understand it, is when a cell whose dna that has been damaged undergoes mitosis and the replicated dna either is out of the telemere buffer and we are now losing parts that make the human body function. Or the dna being replicated was damaged by UV light or other means and no longer expresses necessary genes for proteins, structure, or whatever.
So that’s what I understand aging and cancer to be at a biological level. Now, we’ve been using CRISPER for years, which as I understand it, finds specified sequences of DNA and replaces them with a specified sequence. As I read earlier this year that the company Colossus made advancements where we can edit multiple genes at once.
My question is: With this technology, don’t we have access to cures for at least some types of cancer? And at least some causes of aging? I feel like it is “relatively” easy with technologies we already use with a high degree of accuracy. Why can’t we, say, create a virus carrier to match our DNA against itself and add telemere’s to the ends of our DNA strands to combat aging and decay?
If I’m clearly not understanding a key concept in biology, please enlighten me. If the technology is way too immature, what parts are we missing. I’m so curious, because as I understand it, we have all the pieces and I can’t understand why we’re not using them other than nefarious reasons like Big Pharma or other trust issues
Thank you in advance for kind responses 🫶🏼
The key concept that you’re forgetting is that this is only the knowledge we have and it’s not the knowledge we don’t have. That is to say that the complexities of human physiology are so large and intertwined that we don’t know a lot about it.
Will telomere manipulation and treatment of cancer have an effect on longevity, yes.
But we are very much unable to accurately predict who gets cancer, when and where. Cancer is also a name for a massively large collection of problems in human tissues, that are all completely different in pretty much everything. There will never be A cure or THE cure for cancer because it isn’t a single thing.
And then there is the fact that most people know what aides in longevity: excersize, a mostly plant based diet, no smoking, no drinking. Thousands of studies have been done on this. People however aren’t doing it. People seem to be perfectly fine with their mortality.
What all these fuckers want is to smoke, drink, catch every disease known to mankind, eat McDonalds every hour of every day and then walk into a longevity pod that fixes all their problems without pain, without recovery, without effort and preferably within a minute or two while on their phone.