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On the other hand, to the wealthiest there is an availability of gene therapies, skeleto-muscular grafts, implants, skin underweaves, transfixes, and stem-splices. The extreme juvenat treatment can replace the entirety of the body of a subject wtih mineral bonding and bone grafts to reconstitute a new skeleton, resleeved in a musculature gene-copied from the subject's code, reinforced with [[plastek]] weaves and polymers, with all organs replaced with similarly gene-copied transplants. Those individuals were known to indisputably maintain their prime appearance, sometimes even considered looking better than when they were the age they appear now.{{Fn|3}} People with less than the best access to juvenats are known to be able to present truly youthful, or at least not monstrously caricaturesque, if beyond the simple reliance on this technology they maintain a healthy lifestyle, which might be causative to the scarcity of such an effect.{{Fn|4}}
Even with access to the treatment, some people keep parts of their aged self, like gray hair or slight droop to the cheeks,{{Fn|5}} the lack of those vanity enhancement is outside a selected few nobles apparent mostly in rejuvenated officers.{{Fn|56b}} Some more spineless individuals are viewed by less privileged to purposefully alter their appearance for the aim of obfuscating their innate slimy expressions with those considered approachable, though it's a matter of conjecture.{{Fn|2a}} Some Juvenat treatments are known to work even on some [[xenos]] like the [[T'au]], who can reach otherwise impossible age of eighty, albeit with definitive deformation with parchment like skin and the definition of their body hanging mostly on bones.{{Fn|66a}}. While they are effective at greatly expanding one's life, they ultimately fail to prevent eventual death.{{Fn|7}}{{Fn|Dubious wording}}
==See Also==
*{{Endn|4}}: [[Ravenor (Novel)]], Part One, Chapter Five
*{{Endn|5}}: [[Atlas Infernal (Novel)]], Interregna I
*{{Endn|6}}: [[Fire Caste (Novel)]], :*{{Endn|6a}}: Chapter Eight, *{{Endn|6b}}: Chapter Sixteen
*{{Endn|7}}: [[Belisarius Cawl: The Great Work (Novel)]] - Chapter 1
**{{Endn|Dubious wording}}: From the way it is worded in the article, it is unknown, if it means that the juvenat treatment allows for indefinite sustaining of life but doesn't save from a tragic death (which still conflicts with a source when juvenat treatment saves someone from nigh total body anihilation), or does it mean that inexorably people reach an unspecified old age when it's impossible to maintain prolonged life any longer. Necessitates to check the source material.
