- Aging is a negative compounding problem. That means it’s a system that if left by itself, it will get exponentially worse.
- Aging as a term doesn’t capture much, so you need new terms. Once you understand that aging is a negative compounding problem, I’d suggest you think of aging as Dyscompounding.
- Aging is a disease. I’m calling the disease of aging Dyscompathie.
- Aging not only is a disease, it’s a deadly disease. In this sense, aging not only is a Dyscompathie, but also a Thanatitis.
- You don’t have one biological age, but more like 20.
- Chronological age is a great proxy for biological age, but the easiest way to limit your thinking is not moving your measurement away from chronological age, because chronological age can’t be changed at all, thus comes with passive ideology attached to it.
- All those different ages form something like your Age Stack, something you can dissect, compose, influence, improve…
- Theory of Constraints (The Goal, by Eliyahu M. Goldratt) teaches you to manage around bottlenecks. Regarding aging, this means figuring out which of all your potential ages is most likely to actually kill you, because once you understand you have many ages, you need to focus on those that are your bottlenecks for a longer health- and lifespan.
- A better word for “Anti-aging compounds”, i.e. interventions that help against Dyscompathie, is Euchronodelics.
- An intervention that reverses death is called Thanatolytic or Thanatolytics. Thanatolytics might not exist yet, but the very purpose of a philosopher is to create, create a better reality, even if it starts with coming up with a new term. Genuine invention starts somewhere!