For the record, that’s precisely what I am suggesting will happen to the total disease burden as we slow and even reverse aging. The result will be an upgrade of the health care system as we know it. Treatments that once cost hundreds of thousands of dollars could be rendered obsolete by pills eventually costing pennies to make. People will spend the last days of their lives at home with their families instead of racking up huge bills in centers intended for nothing more than “aging in place.” The idea that we once spent trillions of dollars trying to eke out a few more weeks of life from
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