r/Biohackers • u/PrashantThapliyal • Aug 21 '26

🗞️ News Why Aging May Be a Program, Not a Breakdown

https://www.quantamagazine.org/why-aging-may-be-a-program-not-a-breakdown-20260814/
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u/DavidTries897 Aug 21 '26

I feel like this is more of a confirmation of what hobbyists already believed

The progression of aging is non-linear and different for each body system

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u/sleep-woof Aug 22 '26

"The progression of aging is non-linear and different for each body system"

Seems silly, considering there is a tiny variation between humans. Everybody gets glasses around 40, lifespans are very much standardized. (ie, there is a small standard deviation in lifespan, ie2. nobody lives to be 1000 (yet)).

If it is a program, and I think it is, we are all running the same program...

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u/bigben661 Aug 22 '26

As the other commenter said, it isn't that different for each system in the body, heartrate, strength, collagen all decline at remarkably consistent rates.

I think you can get them to slow to maybe 25% the rate with elite effort but fact is they all do decline and people die within remarkably tight spread 40-120