<div dir="ltr"><p align="left" style="box-sizing:border-box;font-family:proxima-nova,sans-serif;font-size:20px;line-height:26px;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:26px"><span lang="en-GB" style="box-sizing:border-box">I can hear Max and Natasha in my mind saying to the world, "we told you so..."</span></p><p align="left" style="box-sizing:border-box;font-family:proxima-nova,sans-serif;font-size:20px;line-height:26px;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:26px"><span lang="en-GB" style="box-sizing:border-box">"Now researchers have used </span><span lang="en-US" style="box-sizing:border-box">US economic, health, and demographic data </span><span lang="en-GB" style="box-sizing:border-box">to put a price on just how valuable such an intervention could be. In a </span><a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/s43587-021-00080-0" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(237,102,41);box-sizing:border-box;background-color:transparent;text-decoration-line:none"><span lang="en-GB" style="box-sizing:border-box">paper in </span><em style="box-sizing:border-box"><span lang="en-GB" style="box-sizing:border-box">Nature Aging</span></em></a><span lang="en-GB" style="box-sizing:border-box">, they showed that treatments that slow down aging could be worth </span><span lang="en-US" style="box-sizing:border-box">US$38 trillion </span><span lang="en-GB" style="box-sizing:border-box">for every extra year of life they give people.</span></p><p align="left" style="box-sizing:border-box;font-family:proxima-nova,sans-serif;font-size:20px;line-height:26px;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:26px"><span lang="en-GB" style="box-sizing:border-box">This isn’t the first time someone has tried to pin a number on the benefits of slowing aging. The authors reference a</span> <a href="https://www.healthaffairs.org/doi/full/10.1377/hlthaff.2013.0052" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(237,102,41);box-sizing:border-box;background-color:transparent;text-decoration-line:none"><span lang="en-GB" style="box-sizing:border-box">2013 study in</span><em style="box-sizing:border-box"> <span lang="en-GB" style="box-sizing:border-box">Health Affairs</span></em></a><span lang="en-GB" style="box-sizing:border-box">, which estimated that a 2.2-year increase in life expectancy could be worth as much as $7.1 trillion over 50 years."</span></p><p align="left" style="box-sizing:border-box;font-family:proxima-nova,sans-serif;font-size:20px;line-height:26px;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:26px"><span lang="en-GB" style="box-sizing:border-box"><a href="https://singularityhub.com/2021/07/12/delaying-aging-would-bring-trillions-of-dollars-in-economic-gains-study-finds/" target="_blank">https://singularityhub.com/2021/07/12/delaying-aging-would-bring-trillions-of-dollars-in-economic-gains-study-finds/</a></span></p></div>