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Understanding David Sinclair's Longevity Protocol: The Key to Unlocking the Fountain of Youth?

Understanding David Sinclair's Longevity Protocol: The Key to Unlocking the Fountain of Youth?

A Comprehensive Overview of the Revolutionary Approach to Aging and Healthspan Extension Developed by Dr. David Sinclair

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Feb 21, 2023
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David Sinclair, PhD, a molecular geneticist at Harvard, believes that aging is a disease that should be attacked at its roots. He argues that treating individual age-related diseases through a "whack-a-mole" approach is inefficient and that we need to allocate research funds to developing treatments for aging as a whole. In his book, "Lifespan: Why We Age – and Why We Don’t Have To," Sinclair presents his Information Theory of Aging. He asserts that the failure to define aging as a disease has resulted in a poor allocation of research dollars.

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