The second great obstacle is about chasing our own tails. How can we simultaneously be hyper-innovative for extending health span but ignore all the things that are shortening it? Little to nothing has been done to address pervasive and worsening air pollution, micro and nanoplastics, the toxic PFAS forever chemicals, intake of ultra-processed foods, and so many of the components that I have included in the updated lifestyle+ category, in the air we breathe and the water we drink. The unabated mis- and disinformation anti-science movement, centered around conspiracy theories spreading in
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