“This gives us targets that we may eventually be able to act on with drugs to treat aging in humans.”
Oy. Why do we do this nonsense? Why can't it just be research that helps us better understand how to eat healthy?
/pet peeve
Oy. Why do we do this nonsense? Why can't it just be research that helps us better understand how to eat healthy?
/pet peeve
Would you rather we don't have medication for (type II) diabetes and instead just went around telling people to eat better?
Second, because the theoretical good and the actual results don't align. We could end many STDs by only monogamously coupling for a generation but that isn't going to happen and virginity pledges haven't helped at all.
If "the right way" doesn't actually help in practice can it even be called right?
I don't think research into how to eat well really compares one-for-one to morality policies of "sex is always bad and we will allow for one and only one right way to ever get laid while still making you feel like shit for wanting it at all."
This is ultimately a product like any other. Like a SaaS product making any hard process easy, you wouldn't expect the solution to be wholly free. People would still have the option to take a different route (caloric restriction) to accomplish the same, but it's clear many people struggle with that.
X solution: Actually makes people healthy, doesn't make you rich. Gets no press because it's not making you rich.
Y solution: Kind of, sort of addresses some health issue, but at the price of terrible, horrifying side effects. Also: Makes someone rich. Gets all the promotion while no one hears anything about the cheap solution that doesn't come with horrifying side effects and a huge literal price tag.