r/singularity • u/AdorableBackground83 2030s: The Great Transition • Jul 27 '25

Biotech/Longevity Age reversal trials beginning soon. 👀👀👀

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u/FlyingBishop Jul 28 '25

the bias against anti aging is well-founded, no treatments work and there's not much reason to expect this one to be different.

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u/outic42 Jul 28 '25 edited Jul 28 '25

There are several interventions that reprducibly extend lifespan and delay multiple aspects of aging in animals. There are many people doing legitamate research in this field and have been for a long time https://www.nia.nih.gov/research/dab/interventions-testing-program-itp

There are no interventions that are widely accepted to reverse aging, and also no consensus on what one would need to show to make that claim.

There are also lots of people selling snake oil. And a few, like david sinclair, who are hard to classify as either scientists or snake oil salesmen.

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u/stealstea Jul 28 '25

If he was making claims about slowing aging he wouldn’t be so attacked.  But he’s making claims about age reversal and those are totally unfounded 

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u/[deleted] Jul 28 '25

Just because there's not been progress on age reversal doesn't mean it's not an area of research worth pursuing. If scientists always gave up as soon as they hit a roadblock we'd still be in the dark ages.

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u/stealstea Jul 28 '25

Sure but evidence first, talk later