How much longer till brain failure?
Okay we all get old, but how old can we get? In this thread I am sololy thinking hypothetical could as organs like the heart and bones age could they be replaced with newer parts excluding the brain, how long can we live till brain failure? Alzymers, dimensisia, cancer even could all play factors yes but does the brain it's self have a expectation date? I am wonder if that the brain is the ultimate limt to life extension....
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John Doe
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Yeah i posted this one earlier then I meant to, on the new site we need a way for op to delete posts....
Sincerely,
John Doe
P.S:
Yeah i posted this one earlier then I meant to, on the new site we need a way for op to delete posts....
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ERROS and MEG (hell maybe even MRI) can do that once we have something to show for our efforts in life extension....
@IvoTheSquire
Yeah I am supprised I haven't found anything on this in the alsymers/dimensia papers I have read, not many I will admit....
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To be honest though that since even the simplest machines can't last forever, I highly doubt that immortality is possible anyway.
I'm just more curious as to under optimal condition how long would a brain last, and the answer is "we don't know yet."
plaques, which are formed when waste proteins aren't succesfully
eliminated by the glymphatic system. Sleep quality declines with age,
inability to sleep causes accumulation of beta amyloid protein, beta
amyloid protein cross-linking causes beta amyloid plaques, which then
leads to dementia.Link. Ultrasonics can help break down some of these plaques. Figuring out ways to hack sleep in elderly people to restore good solid periods of no-rem sleep would do more to prevent them. But that's just one of a lot of things that can go wrong with a brain as it ages. Aubrey de Grey divided most of the causes of aging up into seven categories. We'll need to do something about EACH of these if we wanted to get the human body to the point where it wasn't aging / could be maintained - even the brain. Things like brain cancer, which are rarer in a normal lifespan will become a certainty over a long enough timeline. Everything that can go wrong, will eventually go wrong. I think the day will come when we'll have maintainance of the human body worked out, although I imagine I'll be dead by then;P