Is aging a disease?

Is aging a disease?

Aubrey de Grey (Chairman, Methuselah Foundation) gives expert video advice on: What is 'Gerontology'?; Why is it so important for different types of gerontologists to work together?; What causes aging? and more...

Whether aging is a disease or not is really a matter of terminology. It's matter of what you define diseases as. I think people spend far too much time asking the question: "Is aging a disease?," because really the only reason they're asking it is so that they can then make assumptions about what they should do about aging on the basis of whether it's a disease or not. Like for example: If you say aging is not a disease, then people could say: Well, therefore it's natural, and there is no point in doing anything about it. For me that's just playing with words. Whether aging is a disease or not, it's certainly a health condition, it's certainly bad for you; and therefore we should do something about it.