The Holy Grial. We’ve seen lots of movies where people do everything to benefit from this sacred piece, then, what are that benefits? Immortality. But, have a think, may be this thought is not as far as we could imagine.
Scientists are close to unlocking the genetic secrets that could allow us to live for centuries, or may be forever. Advances in biotechnology, tissue regeneration, artificial organs and diagnostic procedures will make it almost certain that we will enjoy longer lives as time progresses.
Nowadays, more people than ever before are enjoying robust health into their seventies, eighties or even beyond. Surveys have shown that life expectancy, for Americans, has increased thanks to improvements in health care, nutrition and the overall standard of living for most people. However, Americans are not only living longer, but also remaining healthier and more active into older age. At the same time, diseases of aging continue to affect many older men and women, such as, osteoarthritis, osteoporosis, cardiovascular diseases, cancer, diabetes and Alzheimer disease. And that has serious effects on the quality of their lives.
Nowadays, more people than ever before are enjoying robust health into their seventies, eighties or even beyond. Surveys have shown that life expectancy, for Americans, has increased thanks to improvements in health care, nutrition and the overall standard of living for most people. However, Americans are not only living longer, but also remaining healthier and more active into older age. At the same time, diseases of aging continue to affect many older men and women, such as, osteoarthritis, osteoporosis, cardiovascular diseases, cancer, diabetes and Alzheimer disease. And that has serious effects on the quality of their lives.
I’m sure that if any older person hears any talk of extending his stay with the living I have no doubt that he or she will be interested to extending his life. Probably he’ll want to be part of his great-great-grandson’s childhood, to be present at the day of his wedding, or he might believe that medical technology, by that time, will have solved most of the limitations which he has to deal with, limitations in basic physical tasks like walking or climbing the stairs.
Nevertheless, I think there may be a high price to pay for living longer. We must think in the costs that this project involves. For instance, scientists and experts must be aware of demographics projections, because if they are able to lead this life extending treatments, soon, the planet is going to be overpopulated. But more important than that, in my opinion, is the quality of life, this is not about how much time you spend on this planet, but the way you spend that time, the way you are gonna live. For that reason, instead of daydreaming in the uncertain future, we should be thinking in the present and start now to encourage people to make healthy lifestyle choices, if they want to have a better future. Accordingly, do you want to live longer? So that, exercise regularly and eat right.
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Almost all this advance in medicine it'd been given by the mother cells and all its useful findings.
In the future only the children that their mothers had given their mother cells will probably live with the new standard of life that the will live. Mother cells will be the Key for the new life, and mothers will give life twice for every child.
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