Aging should be classified as a disease because it is a deterioration of health that leads to death and causes other major diseases.

“I looked up what's the definition of aging, and it says, well, it's a deterioration in health and sickness, and you can die from it, typically you do, something that sounds pretty much like a disease.”

Aging is a malleable process that can be studied and potentially influenced through genetics and molecular biology.

“it was really almost like an aha moment where it just clicked with me that it was really fascinating that you could use genetics and molecular biology and biochemistry to study something as complicated and fundamental as the biology of Aging”