A growing body of research shows that life gets better as we get older

Re:A growing body of research shows that life gets better as... by Retric on Monday December 01, 2014 @05:26PM (#8684366)

There where actually a wide range of effective treatments for infections before antibotics. EX: Hunny works as a topical treatment. Dioscorides (c.50 AD) (http://www.worldwidewounds.com/2001/november/Molan/honey-as-...) The problem is Aging is a single word discribing thousands of individual problems. It's like someone saying they can solve 'network secuirty' with a simple patch. Cancer is a similar issue because what's being discribed is a symptom not a unified underlying breakdown.

EX: Cantagious cancer: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Devil_facial_tumour_disease

On the other hand we have zero effective treatments for aging.

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Re:A growing body of research shows that life gets better as... by efng on Monday December 01, 2014 @09:37PM (#8685373)

> There where actually a wide range of effective treatments for infections before antibotics.

Antibiotics have been a key vehicle for human life extension. If you think the effect of honey(not sure what hunny is) on a topical wound is anything close to what a modern antibiotic is capable of, you are not paying attention.

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Re:A growing body of research shows that life gets better as... by peteretep on Monday December 01, 2014 @08:54PM (#8685256)

    > The problem is Aging is a single word discribing 
    > thousands of individual problems

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    > On the other hand we have zero effective treatments for 
    > aging.

Sure. We just have treatments for many of the thousands of individual problems, and we're developing new ones all the time.

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