This is the Cato Daily Podcast for Friday, May 27th,

2022. I'm Caleb Brown.

The FDA's failings of the last two years

are well documented, but the agency still

stands in the way of you, me, and generations to come, learning how to stop or reverse aging.

Empowering Americans to take control of their own life spans is among the most valuable freedoms.

Arthur Diamond is a professor of economics at the University of Nebraska, Omaha.

We spoke last month in Las Vegas.

He's aging a disease?

If it takes calling aging a disease to have the FDA approved drugs that reduce it, then I say we call aging a disease.

There was one agency has actually moved in that direction, not the FDA, but maybe it'll be a good

precedent.

It turns out that for the first time in their history, the World Health Organization in 2018

in their dictionary of diseases has included aging.

And so maybe the FDA will follow the good example

of the World Health Organization.

I hope so. It's at least promising that something that we might

otherwise simply accept can be viewed as something you can overcome.

And you know, death is one of those things.

That's a crucial issue.

There's one of the experts, one of the gurus, if you will, about aging aging is a guy named Aubrey de Grey and he believes

that there's various reasons why we're not making as much progress as we could and he thinks

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