Is Aging Really About Uncovering the Fountain of Youth?

The aging field, of course, has a reputation. And that reputation is usually, a, usually emerges from the fact that there are people out there that say, well, we may be able to live a thousand years. But that's not the goal of what we ing to do. We're trying to understand why we have an exponential increase in the onset of a wide range of different diseases as we age. The hope is that by understanding why we have this age dependent onset of morbidities, we might be able to identify the mechanisms that we need to twig in order to allow these events to occur later.