we think of aging as though it's an irreversible process that's tied to time, as a flow. we age because the clock ticks.

but stating it that bluntly at least presents a causal problem. what does time really have to do with aging? do we just exhaust? is that coherent?

well, it is if you consider something like a suicide cell, but that reduces it to a chemical rather than a temporal process. aging is actually being increasingly understood as a chemical process, conceivably making it treatable with drugs.

i know. that's crazy. except it isn't. what's really crazy is attaching the aging process to the tick of the clock without any kind of intermediary. that's what actually doesn't make any sense. aging as a reversible, chemical process is, in reality, the *only* thing that makes any sense.

that doesn't mean that anti-aging drugs aren't an incredibly complex proposal.

this is a neat read.

http://www.ff.ul.pt/FCT/EXPL/NEU-BEN/0241/2013/19.pdf