aging

A scathing review of Lifespan: Why We Age and Why We Don’t Have To by Sinclair and LaPlante (2019). While age reversal is an old grift, the latest version has reached new heights of feigned legitimacy and hype. all vertebrate animal species have a distribution of natural lifespans that are limited by their gene sets… Long-lived species like humans also provide a substantial investment in caretaking of offspring… advantages conferred to youth by parents mean that genetic selections for parental health are extant in caretaking species. Such genetic selections for post-reproductive health are not extant in non-caretaking species…