Andrew Steele: Our goal must be to cure aging

Best-selling author has high hopes for senolytics and wants society to realise that aging doesn’t have to be inevitable.

What is happening as we age, and how can we slow down the process? Just some of the questions that scientist-turned-writer Dr Andrew Steele addresses in his critically acclaimed book?Ageless:?The new science of getting older without getting old. The book, which came out in paperback earlier this year, takes a broad look at the field of longevity science and seeks to explain why aging is not a biological inevitability.

My take on Andrew's work: While many of the researchers we speak to have a particular focus on certain aspects of aging, Steele takes a scientist’s view of the field as a whole, providing a unique perspective on the cutting-edge research that he believes “could lead to the greatest revolution in the history of medicine.” We caught up with him for a fascinating conversation on the current state of sector, where the best opportunities lie, and his somewhat controversial belief that our goal should be to “cure aging.”

A physicist and computational biologist by training, Steele became convinced quite early in his career that aging was the single most important scientific challenge of our time. In fact, in his book, he refers to it as the “world’s greatest humanitarian challenge.”

“To many people, who believe aging is a natural, inevitable side-effect of being alive, this probably sounds like quite a strange thing to say,” says Steele. “But what really drew me to this idea was a statistical realisation predominantly based on the graph of how your risk of death changes depending on how old you are.”

Read the full interview HERE.

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