The state of science reporting has been absolute dog shit for decades. The vast majority of the time when you track down the study an article is based on, the claims of the article are either massively exaggerated, or sometimes even completely different than what the article claims. It seems like a whole industry of taking fairly mundane studies and punching them up into some exciting pieces of short fiction. So many years of garbage reporting has me immediately skeptical of any article with a bold claim, or which mentions any kind of significant breakthrough.

Hey now! It might not even be a journalist doing the hallucinating nowadays. We can get the robots to hallucinate for us!

And thousands of people everywhere read that title, didn't bother looking a single bit into it, and are now repeating to everyone they know "Japan cured aging!" until someone corrects them.

Hey, clicks make money!! /s

also there are aging studies that indicate getting damage cells to self destruct helps being healthier as you age so you want to increase senescence rather than reduce it.

Death is the final disease.

Altered Carbon ¯\_(ツ)_/¯