Regarding Long COVID, telomere length does not affect lifespan - unless ARTIFICIALLY SHORTENED. What does aging in this artificially shortened telomere world look like? Aplastic anemia, organ fibrosis, atrophy of the small intestine and the spleen, skin and hair lesions. This does not resemble normal aging, which is why it has escaped diagnosis, until now.

(N-Acetyl-L-Cysteine, a common anti-oxidant, can inhibit mTOR.) Second, according to calculations, molecular damage, especially mtDNA mutations and telomere shortening, cannot reach deadly threshold during animal lifetime. This damage can only become life-limiting, when artificially accelerated.