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Healthspan, Lifespan, and the Biology of Aging

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The Most Audacious Thing We Can Think of Is, Cure All Disease

If you can delay the onset of disease and if you do improve health, you're going to extend lives too. So in principle, even if the lifespan didn't increase, but the health span increased, that would still be huge. But honestly, they go together. There's actually a really good statistic related to this. Like people have said, like, what if you did cure all cancer? Yes. It would add about three to four years.

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