Hello from Europe (Eurasia?) and welcome to the club.
Independently I came mostly towards the same conclusions: there isn’t nearly enough progress in treating chronic disease. There is a multitude of possible causes such as: the sheer complexity of degenerative processes, chronic diseases confused with normal aging (and social normalization of different classes of people aging at different rates - functionally close to indistinguishable from medical neglect of the classes with less purchasing power), and most insidious one - lack of proper incentives for treatment of chronic conditions subtly and slowly eating away at quality of life. We live in a society - and once the society stops perceiving you the person as being unfairly and gruesomely destroyed by a sudden treatable disease, the positive and negative incentive for curing you suddenly drops. Not to say the medicine of chronic diseases is a total failure, as there are some bright lucky spots here and there, but for now for most people "becoming unwell and feeling diminished” is a certain destiny.
I don’t really have a good solution of course, but as a tech person with long-standing interest in biology of aging, I can entertain some hypotheses and study & comment on some recent research and business developments in longevity industry.
Independently I came mostly towards the same conclusions: there isn’t nearly enough progress in treating chronic disease. There is a multitude of possible causes such as: the sheer complexity of degenerative processes, chronic diseases confused with normal aging (and social normalization of different classes of people aging at different rates - functionally close to indistinguishable from medical neglect of the classes with less purchasing power), and most insidious one - lack of proper incentives for treatment of chronic conditions subtly and slowly eating away at quality of life. We live in a society - and once the society stops perceiving you the person as being unfairly and gruesomely destroyed by a sudden treatable disease, the positive and negative incentive for curing you suddenly drops. Not to say the medicine of chronic diseases is a total failure, as there are some bright lucky spots here and there, but for now for most people "becoming unwell and feeling diminished” is a certain destiny.
I don’t really have a good solution of course, but as a tech person with long-standing interest in biology of aging, I can entertain some hypotheses and study & comment on some recent research and business developments in longevity industry.
If this sounds interesting to you, feel free to join the Healthspan discord: https://discord.gg/vPGFsfpN
We have some scientists and techies, some students and a lot of curious amateurs.