aging Talking is not the most educated to start a blog, but the fact that the world population ages. From current trends continue, within 50 years with 2,000 million seniors worldwide and 22% of the world's population will be over 60 years. Today, the number of seniors already exceeds the children in developed regions, and each month, one million people reach age 60. 'And contrary to popular belief this is not a phenomenon unique to Europe and the U.S.. In fact, developing countries will experience the aging process more meaningful. By 2025, the old people in Colombia, Indonesia and Kenya will increase eight times more than in European countries traditionally "old." How can an investor take advantage of this global trend? If young and middle-aged people have spent at leisure and housing, encouraging housing growth and leisure activities associated with the generation of "Baby Boom", what that older people spend their money? How do the elderly spend the Baby Boom generation of money? Statistics say that in medicine.
is known that the elderly spend more on health care than any other thing in their lives. For example, over 75 represent 30% of health spending, but only 5% of the population. And more and more elderly pay for their treatment in private clinics, a growing trend.
But this is just one of the legs which holds an unprecedented investment opportunity. If this increasing demand meets supply increased, opportunities for investment in biotechnology can be great. And that is precisely the scenario that awaits us in the coming years. After sequencing the human genome, knowledge of genetic circuits that regulate aging and the cause of diseases like cancer or diabetes is exploding. Some scientists are starting to say that aging "is not biologically inevitable" :
recently been discovered that aging is genetically controlled. And maybe death is genetically controlled. And something that is genetically controlled is or will be manipulated. The genetic program of aging is highly variable depending on the species. There are turtles living hundreds of years and trees that live thousands of years. But if we assume that aging genes can be manipulated, because in theory, why not: we aspire to immortality. It would be manipulated to our benefit the genes that control aging. In fact there is some part of us that it is immortal and is perpetuated in our children. And cancer cells are transformed, they seem to be immortal. All these possibilities are remote and have a background of speculation. But there is speculation.
If humanity is moving towards immortality, who would not pay for living longer and better, drugs have increasingly efficient? Get Ready for the next boom after the leisure and housing market, the boom of treating an aging population but almost starts to buy his immortality with money. Is it time to start investing in biotechnology?
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