In a world first, we are seeing human trials to reverse the process of aging using genetic editing.

In a world first, we are seeing human trials to reverse the process of aging using genetic editing. I've been talking about this for a while in mice and we are finally seeing it happening in humans and there are some rather disturbing implications to it. There are a lot of misconceptions about what aging is and why it happens for a long time, people thought it was just damage to your DNA and that does occur. Your DNA does kind of fall apart as you get older. Part of that is telomeres. So yes, the stable ends of your chromosomes, they get shorter over time and then they start to fall apart. But we've also just that we have an aging program in our DNA, our bodies are supposed to get older and those genes dictate how quickly we get old and in what order it happens. However, things can get activated at the wrong time and then we have conditions like, which is a rapid aging disease in young children. More recently, we've discovered that these genes can be turned on and off because your body does have a natural mechanism to reverse the aging process and that happens when we reproduce. But there doesn't seem to be a reason that these mechanisms have to be isolated to cells. We can apply them to a whole body. And yes, it can be done and has been done in mice with great results. We don't just see the slowing of aging, we see the reversal of the science of aging, better muscle tone, shinier coats. I feel like I've seen several movies and an episode of the Twilight Zone about this going wrong, but it does seem to work in mice. Trials like this are done for individual organs at least right now. Well, yes, it has been done in mice and can be systemic. We have to think about side effects and ice, for people who have lost ice do to age related conditions is a good target. We have entered a profoundly weird era in human history for a long time there were miss about the fountain of youth or some tonic that you could take. But none of it worked and we're actually getting to the point where we have verifiable results and that is something that could be applied but may have profound consequences. Of course, nothing is going to stop tech pros from trying to link in their lifespans and I am watching causelessly because it might just be fascinating. Hypothetically, these treatments are life saving. they could help people with deafness and blindness, but they could also have profound consequences for human society and I'm not sure I want to see that either. I don't know. What do you think?