A few decades from now, people will be able to live for a thousand years, according to controversial British scientist Dr. Aubrey de Grey who has established a comprehensive plan for the precise identification of all aging-related factors and the development of specific remedies for each.
The plan, called Strategies for Engineered Negligible Senescence (SENS) will create the biomedical infrastructure for combating age-related diseases and extend human lifespan way beyond what we even dare to imagine today. From breaching the 150 year 
threshold, humans will be able to live healthy lives in the hundreds of years, extending their lifespan to even a thousand years as new technologies for treating age-related diseases are discovered within the next two decades.
Given his illustrious professional background and experience, Dr. Aubrey de Grey’s theories are not without bearing. Dr. de Grey has been with the Department of Genetics at Cambridge University for over ten years before assuming the post of biomedical gerontologist and chief scientist of SENS. His extensive work at the University of Cambridge involved mitochondrial mutations and aimed to stop human aging altogether.
According to the long-haired scientist, “I’d say we have a 50/50 chance of bringing ageing under what I’d call a decisive level of medical control within the next 25 years or so. And what I mean by decisive is the same sort of medical control that we have over most infectious diseases today.” His work has been highly acclaimed in scientific circles, in universities that promote leading edge research such as MIT, and forums like TED, where groundbreaking ideas are shared.
Aubrey de Grey asserts that aging automatically takes effect after birth as a result of human metabolism. While metabolism is critical for survival, it also causes damage as a side effect, minimal at first but accumulating into various pathological conditions. According to de Grey’s research, the metabolism-related factors that cause aging have already been determined and they are
- cell loss/atrophy
- death-resistant cells
- nuclear mutations and epimutations
- mtDNA mutations
- protein crosslinks
- junk inside cells
- junk outside cells
Addressing and controlling each of these factors are necessary to substantially extend human lifespan.
Within two decades, this goal would have been reached. Within this time, people will just 
need to go to their doctors for regular “maintenance” to delay aging and prevent all the diseases associated with it. As Dr. de Grey foresees, the maintenance methods will likely include gene therapy, stem cell therapy, immunity boosters and other medical techniques to keep the human body in good health.
For people living today, Dr. de Grey offers this advice if they want to reap the benefits of his research: try to live long enough until the techniques have been developed and made available to the public. Start by eating right, exercising, and thinking positively.
