Senolytic Drugs- Are You Ready?
Scientists have learned that treating elderly mice with a combination of dasatinib (a leukemia drug) and quercetin (derived from apple peelings) can rejuvenate the little creatures, giving them youthful energy and a significant extension of life expectancy. Human trials are underway, and this writer is watching with bated breath. (See bad joke, below.)
So, what would you do with an extra twenty or thirty years? Not to mention, how are the pension authorities going to deal with this? What conversation do you and your financial planner need to have?
The notion of getting a couple of extra healthy decades is tantalizing, but there’s a far more important question, and it’s this: what are you going to do with today?
Even if science figures out how to give most of us a stretch of twenty or thirty extra years, nothing can prevent you from getting picked off by a Mack truck at a crosswalk. Today. While all of our friends may get lucky, neither you nor I have any guarantee, individually.
And in any case, even if you do get an extra twenty-two years, seven months, three days and six hours, it will still come to an end. It may be more than you’re counting on today, but it’s still finite.
So, the question remains: what are you going to do with today?
This may be one of the shortest Friday Briefings to date, but it may also be the most important.
What are you going to do with today?