The classification of aging as a disease is a subject of intense debate within the scientific and medical communities. Proponents argue that such a classification would accelerate the development of treatments and funding, while opponents warn of ethical consequences and the risk of pathologizing a natural process.

Arguments for Classifying Aging as a Disease Supporters, such as proponents of the Strategies for Engineered Negligible Senescence (SENS) framework, argue that aging fits the medical definition of a disease because it involves specific physiological dysfunctions (like genomic instability and cellular senescence) that lead to harmful outcomes. They contend that classifying aging as a disease would:

• Unlock Funding and Regulation: Currently, regulatory bodies like the FDA require a specific  ...