Aging Is a REPAIR Problem

I've come to see aging as a defect in repair. The the conventional wisdom is that you age cause you wear out. This is not what I believe. I believe that there's a constant degradation that starts even before we're born and is continuous even in 2-year-olds. They're constantly having damage everywhere. What differentiates a 70-year-old person from a 1-year-old is the repair. The 1-year-old has enormous repair capacity. It's incredible. You can see 4-year-olds in the ICU who are as sick as stink, terribly sick, and a week later, they're running around. So over Christmas this year my 2-year-old tried to get on the monkey bars, fell off, broke her collarbone. Yeah. It was totally repaired 2 weeks later, like she didn't even, you know, break a bone. Yeah. Now an 80-year-old person with that, Yeah. not so much. Right, exactly. Months, months of rehab. People break their hip and die. I mean, it's completely different story. Right. Now why is that? Because there is a balance between the damage, which is continuous, and repair.