A longevity researcher pushes back on the hype around extreme lifespan claims, arguing that a realistic goal is extending healthy life by 10 years. The field needs to move past wild promises and focus on incremental pharmaceutical advances that actually work.
There is and has been a ton of hype in the longevity world. People are promising to help humans live for 5,000 years or whatever. And then meanwhile, there's a conservative biopharma world that's very incremental and one disease at a time. Any kind of thinking about extending the healthy lifespan of humans, they just don't look at it from that perspective. Yeah. I think 10 years is exciting enough to be motivating and is also within reach.
