The human being is close to reaching the life expectancy of one hundred years. But it is something that can cost decades. Even so, the English biomedical gerontologist, Dr Aubrey de Gray, says that the first person who lives 1,000 years could have already been born. It is a way of saying that this goal would be attainable in the next 60 or 70 years.
Dr Aubrey de Gray, a graduate of the University of Cambridge, is the principal scientific advisor of the Methuselah Foundation and leads the SENS Research Foundation. He is considered one of the best gerontologists in the world, an expert in anti-ageing techniques.
In 1960 the life expectancy (the average life of men and women) in Spain was 69.11 years. In 2018 it was 83.5 years. This means that in 58 years the Spaniards live on average almost 25 more years. It is a spectacular achievement but ... Is reaching 1,000 years a utopia, or a reality?
Dr Aubrey de Gray says that living up to a thousand years will be achieved, not in 70 or 80 years, but the next 20 years."There are many types of damage (caused by age) that need to be repaired, which means that there are many different therapies that need to be developed, but some of them are already working in clinical trials, and most of them will begin to be clinically tested. in one or two years, "he explains on Express.
De Gray goes even further, and says that "the 1,000-year-old figure is extremely conservative."To support these figures, De Gray uses statistics and clinical data. He believes that "we have a 50% chance of achieving longevity escape velocity in the next 17 years."The longevity escape velocity is the point at which health is one step ahead of the disease, and the health problems of old age are postponed faster than the rate of ageing. In other words, rejuvenation techniques are more effective than ageing itself.
It is quite likely that, if it happens, the first human being to reach a thousand years will be a woman, since her life expectancy is greater. In Spain, women live on average 86 years, and men, 80. Our country is the sixth worldwide in this statistic.
But one thing is to live 90 or 100 years, and another very different, a millennium. This raises other issues that go beyond science. What type of pension will be charged at these ages? Until what age will it work? Will we be psychologically prepared to live a thousand years? And what will happen with the excess population?
These are questions that, to this day, have no answer.
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