New discoveries in the realm of biological science reveal common mechanisms are shared by age-related diseases and conditions. More signficantly, research suggests that these mechanisms can be modified. These new discoveries indicate that more benefit could be realized by treating age-related diseases not as distinct disorders, but rather as a collection of syndromes tied together by a few common threads. We believe the time has come to declare the arrival of the real "war on aging" and use our new tools to attack aging at its root, the fundamental biological processes which drive it.