I think the point I was trying to make is that there are multiple reasons instead of one, and none of them are simple or easy. Understanding how those six things happen is subtly different to asking why they happen, which might be why we've got such a range of comments here and why the scientists in the article couldn't agree on their answer.

[–] Valmond@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 14 hours ago

The downstream problems are complex and hard to understand (like being old and fragile, or having diverse shortcomings), the base problems not so much actually. Not the simplest things to fix but nothing outlandish either.

And the first mediocre treatments might give us some extra healthy years, and during that time, potentially other and better treatments will be created, adding more years to our lives, and so on. For the curious, the theory is called LEV, Longevity Escape Velocity, and it's possible that many of us might catch it.