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Originally Posted by schu_22
Well you're gonna have to weed out any genetic defects from the start, lengthen telomeres so that the shortening isn't an issue, and work on ways to make DNA transcription less likely to produce errors. Diet will be an enormous factor and will probably depend on the individual. One aging factor that will be hard to control will be damage done just as a result of metabolism (free radicals are often cited as the main source of this damage)...the basic idea being that the stuff we consume is always going to disrupt our cellular machinery at some low rate, but the damage adds up over time. And it's kind of hard to stop eating and breathing, so this will be the tough thing to overcome.
Educated guess, 150-180 years
DNA damage, protein errors, and telomere length wouldn't be a huge deal outside of the cns. Everyone would have their genomes sequenced and have a reservoir of stem cells stored away.