What Are the Underlying Mechanisms That Drive the Diseases of Aging?

Aging is being redefined as a disease in the US. We are finally understanding how the body works to create health, he says. But we're still spending billions of dollars on treating diseases like whack-a-mole and cancer. If we completely eradicated cancer and heart disease from the face of the planet, our life extension would be maybe three to five years according to some estimates.