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Birth rate declining is not a bad thing if average life expectancy increases rapidly

I wonder what effect longevity protocols like blueprint from @bryanjohnson have on female fertility.

Can you increase your lifespan, and your fertility-span?

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Well you can freeze and store eggs, so fertility can be extended, problem with life extension is that it isn't spread evenly enough across a population to counter the other.

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That's an interesting point. I wonder if getting to that point, where we are distributing this treatment without prejudice to the population could also reverse the population decline as fewer people die while also having more children. 

However, if the journey from expensive to cheap takes decades like most treatments who would get the first versions of it? Likely the most wealthy, influential, etc. Could see a scenario where this "god pill" could  exacerbate divisions even more dramatically as they live longer and "normal" people die.

Obvs depends on what we mean by extend.

Consider a cost effective and scalable gene therapy that increase your lifespan, so it could be applied en masse relatively easily– I want to know how much increasing lifespan could also improve reproductive health