Chapter
Fighting Disease and Mortality
02:41 - 10:11 (07:29)
As the risk for contracting most diseases increases with age, fighting disease and aging can be challenging. Furthermore, curing diseases becomes challenging as a lot of damage may have already occurred by the time the disease is discovered.
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Curing all diseases requires the ability to regenerate entire parts of the human body and not just provide treatment for their multitude of cellular mechanisms, that ultimately translate to uncontrolled proliferation.
02:41 - 06:53 (04:12)
Summary
Curing all diseases requires the ability to regenerate entire parts of the human body and not just provide treatment for their multitude of cellular mechanisms, that ultimately translate to uncontrolled proliferation. Therefore, it's not easy to define a large number of cures for different diseases.
ChapterFighting Disease and Mortality
Episode#93 – Daphne Koller: Biomedicine and Machine Learning
PodcastLex Fridman Podcast
As we age, our risk for contracting most diseases increases exponentially every year after the age of 40.
06:53 - 10:11 (03:17)
Summary
As we age, our risk for contracting most diseases increases exponentially every year after the age of 40. While mortality is an inherent part of life, the goal is to increase our health span, which is the length of time we are healthy and active.