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O 'brid-Gorey, an expert in biomedical gerontology, pointed out that after every breakthrough treatment related to longevity, the future life expectancy of human beings will exceed the current expectations. According to him, the first human with a life span of 1000 years will be born in the next 20 years.
Gorey is the chief scientific officer of SENS Foundation, a California nonprofit organization. For many years, he devoted himself to the study of longevity and tried to solve the anti-aging problem of human body in various ways. He believes that this will help to eliminate various diseases and prolong life. Gray said: "In the next 25 years, I will use a decisive medical control method to effectively delay human aging by 50%. At the same time, it can also control most infectious diseases to a certain extent. "
His routine medical maintenance includes gene therapy, stem cell therapy, stimulating the immune system and a series of advanced medical technologies to keep people in good condition.
Dr. Gorey described the aging of human body as the long-term accumulation of various molecular and cell injuries in various parts of the human body. This view encourages people to receive preventive geriatric treatment, which will enable damaged molecules and cells to be repaired regularly before reaching the pathogenic level. There are still some doubts about how long human life can be extended and how long it can be realized in the future, but the trend is clear.
Scientists estimate that if the average annual life expectancy increases by 3 months, there will be 1 100,000-year-old people by 2030. Up to now, the longest recorded life span in the world has reached 122 years, and it has exceeded 44,000 centenarians in 20 10 years. Some researchers say that the trend of human longevity may be hindered by epidemic obesity, which is spreading from developed countries to developing countries.
Dr. Gray's point of view seems far-fetched. In 2005, MIT's Journal of Technology Evaluation provided $20,000 to verify the correctness of this view. The results show that the research is wrong and not worth academic debate. After that, the SENS Foundation removed Dr. Gray from the list of nine chief scientists and regarded his scientific research work as "pseudoscience".
Some experts infer that Gray's view is pseudoscience, which is obviously unfair. Gorey said that their inference is contrary to my point of view, and my focus is on how to prevent the killer diseases of the elderly.
Gorey divides the physical injuries caused by aging into seven categories. If, according to his theory, the dream of longevity is realized through continuous physical maintenance, it is necessary to develop new treatments for these seven types of physical injuries. He emphasized that for some types of physical injuries, science and technology are still in the primary stage, while treatments for other types of physical injuries already exist.
Gorey said: "Stem cell therapy is an important part of it, and its purpose is to repair damaged tissues of human body. In other words, when cells die or do not automatically replace cells, clinical stem cell therapy can be used. " At present, stem cell therapy is applied to patients with spinal injury. He and other medical experts believe that one day this therapy can be used to replace brain and heart tissue damaged by disease.
Cardiovascular disease is the biggest killer disease related to age in the world. Dr. Gorey said that it will take a long time for researchers to understand the disease in depth. Heart disease can lead to heart failure, heart attack and stroke. Disease will bring "molecular waste" to human body, which is a by-product of human metabolic process, but human body cannot decompose and excrete them. The "molecular garbage" in these cell molecules will eventually affect the normal operation of cells.
Dr. Gorey and his colleagues found in the United States that enzymes in other species can decompose molecular waste and clean cell molecules, which means that the gene therapy designed in the future can be applied to the human body. If we genetically modify the molecular waste accumulated on arterial wall cells, cardiovascular diseases will not occur.
At present, Gorey is unwilling to disclose the life expectancy of future people, but he points out that after every breakthrough treatment related to longevity, the life expectancy of future people will exceed the current expectation. According to him, the first human with a life span of 1000 years will be born in the next 20 years.