Theory Article|Volume 10, Issue 11|pp 3067—3078

Disease or not, aging is easily treatable

Mikhail V. Blagosklonny¹

¹Cell Stress Biology, Roswell Park Cancer Institute, Buffalo, NY 14263, USA

Received: August 15, 2018Accepted: November 2, 2018Published: November 17, 2018

Copyright: © 2018 Blagosklonny et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY 3.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.

Abstract

Is aging a disease? It does not matter because aging is already treated using a combination of several clinically-available drugs, including rapamycin. Whether aging is a disease depends on arbitrary definitions of both disease and aging. For treatment purposes, aging is a deadly disease (or more generally, pre-disease), despite being a normal continuation of normal organismal growth. It must and, importantly, can be successfully treated, thereby delaying classic age-related diseases such as cancer, cardiovascular and metabolic diseases, and neurodegeneration.