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When longevity's biggest theories meet patients - LinkedIn

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The gap between longevity science's elegant theories and what actually helps patients survive longer reveals why lab breakthroughs so rarely become bedside treatments.

GeroscienceTranslational MedicineHallmarks of AgingEvidence-Based Medicine
When longevity's biggest theories meet patients - LinkedIn

Theory Briefing

  • Geroscience is packed with promising mechanisms and pathways, but clinical medicine demands results over elegance.
  • The translation gap between longevity theory and patient care exposes a classic bench-to-bedside failure in biology.
  • Aging research's biggest frameworks — from senescence to mTOR inhibition — struggle to survive contact with real-world clinical trials.