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What is 'aging', if it isn't the changes that happen over long periods of time, like developing cancers, heart disease, and degenerative diseases?
Aging is the accumulation of low level damage, like junk in your cells and the space between them, and telomere shortening which eventually cause cancer, heart disease, and degenerative diseases. The SENS approach is to repair the low level damage before it can accumulate to the point of causing noticeable symptoms.
These changes are exactly what anti-aging research is seeking to prevent, so I'm not sure of the point of your question.
Because the article was advocating treating aging, instead of cancer, heart disease, and other degenerative diseases.
I'm thinking it's the difference between prevention and treating symptoms. It's more like "we will cure the common cold" and less like "we will make it so you don't suffer the stuffy nose while the virus wreaks havoc on your body".