denison claire welcome to the show it's great to have you with us with lots to talk about so you.

denison claire welcome to the show it's great to have you with us with lots to talk about so you suggest that aging may be looked at as a disease that can be treated what makes you think that age is a medical condition rather than the natural course of things. well think so if you will aging is just like every other condition that causes us to be sick and eventually die we like to think it's natural because it happens to most people but in 100 years ago cancer heart disease frailty these are things that that if you lived long enough you would get it and eventually we learned how to treat those things we understood what the basis was and we're at the same stage with aging we know of for the 1st time a fundamental understanding of what causes aging how to slow down and even potentially how to treat it and reverse the process and my argument about why we should focus on it is that aging is the major cause of all of the diseases that we try to stop and sort of trying to whack them on the head one of the time as they emerge when we try to stop us getting to the edge of the cliff in the 1st pl