Some Veritasium titles had my curiosity piqued and I wound up learning some very relevant things that sent me for spin and brought me back. Thought I'd share. The second one has more to do with genetics, but watching the first one gave me a perspective:
So my first thoughts after watching the about women being stripy was that our DNA modifications were too complex to unravel and that our generation was fated to always remain somewhat aged and never be perfectly young. Then, after a little bit I realized there was a solution and the "form determines function" meme would again help to uncomplicate things as we can restore form and thus the function of DNA given this understanding and while we might not get perfect results, we would survive, and find perfection over time. The question is, how long will it take to grow young again? How fast will the science move?
My next thoughts were that we already had some of what we need to accelerate it. A few years ago, we started talking about a map of our metabolism, so why not take that and use that approach into affecting genetics and determine ahead of time what the sequence of our DNA is likely to look like, or how it would look if it were functioning at it's best and set a goal? The sequence and composition of our DNA can be described by math models and using that we can theorize what sequence and form would be most stable and produce the most youth. The problem is likely to be far less complex than we might think at the outset too as each cell group has a different function and a similar form. Thus, it's actually easier than we might think and we're quite possibly closer than we imagine.
My question now is... as it usually is... why isn't some computer spitting out the answer and process we need to accomplish this? What's holding us back from getting this done? Some things feel haphazard while I imagine they can and must be following a plan that is beyond explaining in an easy to digest form. So much of what we think, do and understand would take more time to explain than to do...