…f the elderly — heart disease and cancer — the relationship between age and disease is logarithmic. As we grow older, our risk of contracting a chronic disease doesn’t just increase—it accelerates.The Safe, Boring, and Extremely Cheap Drug That Could Cure Aging9.7K50Lissa HarrisEric ShieldsFollowSep 6, 2018 · 1 min readAnd it persists for a longer period of time, despite remediation.