Should scientists help people beat old age?
My topic I chose for this essay was whether or not should take the time to focus on helping come up with ways to beat old age, so that people can live longer, more healthy lives and enjoy their experience of living more. This topic is interesting to me because it has two clear sides to it and has lots of reasons to both of them.
The idea of beating old age has been around for a very long time. Shakespeare wrote about it, Ponce De Leon’s theory of the fountain of youth in Florida. Also eternal life of the Struldbrugs in Gulliver 's travels.
My side of this topic is that scientists shouldn’t focus on helping people beat old age, nature didn’t imply for us as a species to tweak our own lifespans. …show more content…
If any person with stains a healthy life, then they should have a fairly smooth elderly life. Those that don’t usually aren’t very healthy throughout their lives and their lives won’t last as long regardless. In 1950 there were approximately 2,300 people of the age 100 or older alive in the world, by 2050 there is expected to be around 600,000 people of that age or older. The oldest person on record to ever live was a French woman named Jeanne Calment, she was 122 years old at death, she lived from 1875 to 1997. As time goes on life will increase regardless to any treatment of age as the technology we develop and standard of living is a lot more functional and efficient for living long lives.
One of the most popular theories for life extension right now is subtracting calories from the daily diet to help maintain a healthy body weight and not straining the digestive system. Many describe it as eating until 80% full instead of until truly feel as eating until full would mean eating continuously until your digestive system registers to the stomach and sends signals to the brain which can result in overeating which is what most people do on a regular basis. This habit is very common, but can be easily …show more content…
It proved to reduce many diseases commonly contracted at older ages such as Cancer, Heart Disease and Diabetes. Along with increasing the lifespans of the monkeys. We rely on these results as being helpful as the primates share 93% of human DNA.
In the future, things like genetic flipping or even just taking a pill to fool the body into thinking it’s full will most likely be a resolution to over eating or to solve what we know to be “full“. This alone will be enough to drastically help extend lives and also prevent things such as diabetes, obesity and many other eating related conditions.
There may never be a clear view of this topic, there are many points on both sides. Life extension in all is based on human genes and how well health has managed over the years. That’s all we know to do as of now, but maybe some day there will be more, maybe some day there will be a solution to drastically affect what we know of as far as life extension. Until that day, there will be the a dispute. I do believe that the dream will come true one
My topic I chose for this essay was whether or not should take the time to focus on helping come up with ways to beat old age, so that people can live longer, more healthy lives and enjoy their experience of living more. This topic is interesting to me because it has two clear sides to it and has lots of reasons to both of them.
The idea of beating old age has been around for a very long time. Shakespeare wrote about it, Ponce De Leon’s theory of the fountain of youth in Florida. Also eternal life of the Struldbrugs in Gulliver 's travels.
My side of this topic is that scientists shouldn’t focus on helping people beat old age, nature didn’t imply for us as a species to tweak our own lifespans. …show more content…
If any person with stains a healthy life, then they should have a fairly smooth elderly life. Those that don’t usually aren’t very healthy throughout their lives and their lives won’t last as long regardless. In 1950 there were approximately 2,300 people of the age 100 or older alive in the world, by 2050 there is expected to be around 600,000 people of that age or older. The oldest person on record to ever live was a French woman named Jeanne Calment, she was 122 years old at death, she lived from 1875 to 1997. As time goes on life will increase regardless to any treatment of age as the technology we develop and standard of living is a lot more functional and efficient for living long lives.
One of the most popular theories for life extension right now is subtracting calories from the daily diet to help maintain a healthy body weight and not straining the digestive system. Many describe it as eating until 80% full instead of until truly feel as eating until full would mean eating continuously until your digestive system registers to the stomach and sends signals to the brain which can result in overeating which is what most people do on a regular basis. This habit is very common, but can be easily …show more content…
It proved to reduce many diseases commonly contracted at older ages such as Cancer, Heart Disease and Diabetes. Along with increasing the lifespans of the monkeys. We rely on these results as being helpful as the primates share 93% of human DNA.
In the future, things like genetic flipping or even just taking a pill to fool the body into thinking it’s full will most likely be a resolution to over eating or to solve what we know to be “full“. This alone will be enough to drastically help extend lives and also prevent things such as diabetes, obesity and many other eating related conditions.
There may never be a clear view of this topic, there are many points on both sides. Life extension in all is based on human genes and how well health has managed over the years. That’s all we know to do as of now, but maybe some day there will be more, maybe some day there will be a solution to drastically affect what we know of as far as life extension. Until that day, there will be the a dispute. I do believe that the dream will come true one