Living to 100? Oooh, that would be terrible. They are only the age. "
Who was the reaction of many that the scientists predict that many children born today will live to see 2109. Horrible? I'm sorry. The centenary of the future will have a brilliant time and I hope I am among them.
We are entering a new era of personalized medicine, genetic tests will tell you what diseases you are in danger and your doctor will tell you what to do. Boards should not high tech or expensive: a recent study showed that coffee is the average age remarkably protective against Alzheimer's disease.
And in the future, a diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease will never stop falling. Scientists have shown that the introduction of genes to promote that can grow in the brain for the loss of fibers in the brain that occurs during the AD to compensate. In like manner, the electric and magnetic brain stimulation promising results for diseases such as Parkinson's disease.
Repeals the prevention and cure of the dreaded specter of mental decline with age. Some might even choose to take things a step further - what makes a person sick and could not well a person, even better. The old man of the future can be good, amateurism in improving the brain.
One of the biggest obstacles in old age is the cause of vision loss and blindness. Gene therapy, lentils increasingly artificial and sophisticated laser treatment means that in 100 years there is every reason to believe that the vision loss is debilitating, under which the unfortunate few, not the majority.
Scientists are also amazing advances in prosthetics. No more days of sugar cane, scooter mobility, the walking aid. Look forward to a future increase in prosthetic bone is not simply a replacement for its members, but an opportunity in the imperfect design of the human body.
Finally, and perhaps most exciting of all are the opportunities for research on stem cells. We reached a point where scientists can take a skin cell and turn it into a pluripotent "master cells" that any kind of tissue will develop in the body, brain cells, muscle or bone. This is already possible in mice.
Scientists and doctors are not on a mission to give us another 20 years joined in Purgatory, the life-support machines. The crux of the hard work in the lab is for us to enjoy the health and vitality.
Newborns, forget the dark codgerdom slowly decrease: Prepare yourself for the glory year.
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