If you want further evidence, consider that the original paper, The Hallmarks of Aging (2013) published in the journal Cell is the most highly cited academic paper in the entire field—with over 6800+ citations. Although it was Aubrey de Grey who first conceived of the Hallmarks (which he called the ‘7 deadly SENS’ and categorised them slightly differently in his 2007 book, Ending Aging) it has now become the framework used by researchers in the field, and even included in academic courses—such as the lectures I was invited to give to clinical neuroscience students here at Oxford University about aging and neurodegeneration.
SENS and Hallmarks shouldn’t be mixed as was done here and in the OP; although both sometimes overlap, they’re separate and distinct. Aubrey de Grey was the first to categorize aging damage and strategies to repair that damage (SENS) back in 2002 and published Ending Aging in 2007 to further popularize it. But he didn’t publish Hallmarks, and Hallmarks doesn’t always overlap with SENS (e.g., no cure for cancer, ignores crosslinks). Hallmarks also advocates lots of messing-with-metabolism (gerontology rather than the engineering/maintenance/damage repair approach), which is a big no-no from the SENS perspective. And while Hallmarks is popular in academia, SENS is not, unfortunately. It all boils down to this: the SENS approach has a decent chance of reaching LEV in the not-too-distant future, whereas Hallmarks doesn’t and never claimed to.
SENS and Hallmarks shouldn’t be mixed as was done here and in the OP; although both sometimes overlap, they’re separate and distinct. Aubrey de Grey was the first to categorize aging damage and strategies to repair that damage (SENS) back in 2002 and published Ending Aging in 2007 to further popularize it. But he didn’t publish Hallmarks, and Hallmarks doesn’t always overlap with SENS (e.g., no cure for cancer, ignores crosslinks). Hallmarks also advocates lots of messing-with-metabolism (gerontology rather than the engineering/maintenance/damage repair approach), which is a big no-no from the SENS perspective. And while Hallmarks is popular in academia, SENS is not, unfortunately. It all boils down to this: the SENS approach has a decent chance of reaching LEV in the not-too-distant future, whereas Hallmarks doesn’t and never claimed to.