Most of the conditions you've mentioned there have exogenous causes (i.e. diseases or environmental toxins), and I question your inclusion of many of the ones that don't (who thinks we have "conquered" breast cancer??).

But we have made very little progress in staving off degenerative-type diseases. Even the primary degenerative disease you mention, knee failure, we cure largely with a wholesale replacement. That obviously isn't applicable to organs we can't just swap out.

We have by no means conquered prostate cancer. It is still extremely deadly.

Worth adding to the list are osteoporosis, secondary infection, hearing loss, macular degeneration (need more advancement here), hypothyroidism, chronic kidney, acute consequences of heart disease/ stroke prevention.

Not all of the solutions can be called "cures" but a solution nonetheless is better than nothing and calling it "old age, shit out of luck."

Parkinson's fairly frequent too.

> and have conquered yellow fever, consumption, diabetes, knee failure, glaucoma, smoking related lung cancer, prostate cancer, hookworm, environmental lead poisoning, environmental arsenic poisoning, black lung, breast cancer, and syphilis.

What's your definition of "conquered"? In the US breast cancer is the most common type of cancer, and together with lung cancers account for ~500k cases each year. 100k of those people will die within 5 years.

Now we created new issues to replace the old. Microplastic, PFAS, antibiotic resistance, obesity, etc.

And my knees want to have a word with your assessment :).

> So, if you know someone old and suffering, its probably alzheimers.

Thats very far from reality, I presume you don't know many old people or speak to them about their ailments?

Most of the things you listed aren't aging related

you forgot HIV/AIDS. we have the tools to basically snuff it out in 60-80 years if every male was on prep