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The future of medicine is about preventing disease rather than treating it and aging is the biggest risk factor for most diseases. Kristen Fortney Older Wiser Healthier The desire for significantly longer healthier lives has been with humanity since the beginning of recorded history. Yet for thousands of years its also been seen as an unachievable dream. In the last few decades advances in medical science have begun to raise hopes that the dream might one day become reality that growing older might not always mean growing sicker.