New developments in stem cell therapy are published all the time. Scientists are excited about its future and the impact it could have on our health. Aubrey de Grey predicts we will soon be living 150 or even 1000 years in optimal health because of stem cells and other scientific advances. The scientist demonstrates a sense of hope and anticipation present in many recent publications.

If Aubrey de Grey is correct, the first person who will live until their 150th birthday is already alive. And the first person to live for 1,000 years may be 20 years younger or less.

De Grey is a biomedical gerontologist and chief scientist of a foundation that carries out longevity research. He believes that in his own lifetime doctors might develop all the tools they need to cure aging and eliminate the diseases that accompany it.

"I'd say we have a 50/50 chance of bringing aging under what I'd call a decisive level of medical control within the next 25 years or so," said de Grey before giving a lecture at Britain's Royal Institution academy of science.

"And what I mean by decisive is the same sort of medical control that we have over most infectious diseases today."

The ambitious scientist visualizes a future where people will visit their doctors for advanced medical techniques such as stem cell therapy, gene therapy and immune stimulation to stay in optimal shape.

De Grey received his doctorate degree from Cambridge University in 2000 and still lives close by. He is chief scientific officer of the non-profit California-based SENS (Strategies for Engineered Negligible Senescence) Foundation, an initiative he co-founded in 2009.

His definition of aging is the lifelong accumulation of different types of molecular and cellular damage across the body.

"The idea is to engage in what you might call preventative geriatrics, where you go in to periodically repair that molecular and cellular damage before it gets to the level of abundance that is pathogenic," he said.

Whilst we do not know if de Grey is accurate in his predictions there is certainly a continuous increase in our lifespan. At present about three months is added to our life expectancy every year and it is estimated there will be one million people aged 100 or more by 2030.

The oldest person in the world lived to be 122 and in 2010 Japan had over 44,000 residents that were 100 or older.

Experts warn the pattern of increasing lifespans may be interrupted by obesity, an epidemic that is spreading from rich to poor countries.

De Grey’s ideas have been challenged and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Technology Review journal in 2005 offered $20,000 to any molecular biologist who proved de Grey's SENS theory to be "so wrong that it was unworthy of learned debate". It was never won.

De Grey not only sees people living for a long time, but also with a high quality of life, free from illness: "This is absolutely not a matter of keeping people alive in a bad state of health," he said. "This is about preventing people from getting sick as a result of old age. The particular therapies that we are working on will only deliver long life as a side effect of delivering better health."

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