We’re excited to announce that we have partnered with Future Grind to produce the Rejuvenation Roundup Podcast, hosted by Ryan O’Shea! Explore the latest in life extension and anti-aging science with a dive into a month’s worth of scientific insights and new breakthroughs. More at lifespan.io/roundup
Fantastic Video Set of Aubrey De Grey discussing Indefinite Longevity.
This video is a compilation of the biogerontologist Aubrey de Grey. He has been pushing the scientific frontier of indefinite longevity for the last few decades and predicts that science and technology will be advanced enough 20 years from now so that we can all achieve longevity escape velocity.
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Life extension would give us more time to enjoy; why not?
At times, meeting people feels like going to the theater. Conversations tend to revolve around the same topics and can sound so cliché that they seem scripted. Of course, it depends on the people—close friends tend to be far more genuine than that—but if you pay attention during a conversation, a certain topic will pop up several times: aging.
Depending on the age of the people involved, the way they discuss aging will be different. Teenagers probably won’t even touch the subject; it generally starts creeping up in conversations once working life has begun or is about to begin. At this stage, chronological and biological aging are mostly conflated; responsibilities, more demanding schedules, and abandoning student life are all seen as hallmarks of growing older, when, in fact, they are only signs of growing up and are not absolute.
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We have now launched the Rejuvenation Roundup Podcast, a monthly podcast accompanying our regular Rejuvenation Roundup digest. Check out the first episode of this new show hosted by Ryan O’Shea from Future Grind.
Brought to you by Nicola Bagalà, the Rejuvenation Roundup is our monthly digest, which takes a look at the big news stories involving the industry and helps keep you informed of current developments in the aging research field. Hosted by Ryan O’Shea of the Future Grind podcast, the Rejuvenation Roundup podcast is a regular podcast that complements the monthly written Roundup articles that we publish here on the blog. The podcast aims not to replace the regular written Roundup articles but to offer a deeper dive into some of the key stories, and it includes quotes and interviews from industry leaders. We suggest enjoying both written and podcast versions every month!
845 pages in length, the report aims to outline the history, present state and future of the Longevity Industry in the United Kingdom, profiling hundreds of companies, investors, and trends, and offering guidance on the most optimal ways in which UK longevity industry stakeholders, as well as government officials, can work to strengthen the industry, and allow it to reach its full potential as a global longevity science and preventive medicine hub. The report uses comprehensive infographics to distill the report’s data and conclusions into easily understandable portions, and interested readers can get a quick understanding of the report’s main findings and conclusions in its 10-page executive summary.
This special regional case study follows-up on the content and general outline of the Longevity Industry made by our consortium in the previous Longevity Industry Landscape Overviews, including Volume I “The Science of Longevity” (750 pages), and Volume II “The Business of Longevity” (650 pages), published earlier this year.
These ongoing analytical reports are part of a collaborative project by The Global Longevity Consortium, consisting of the Biogerontology Research Foundation, Deep Knowledge Analytics, Aging Analytics Agency and the Longevity. International platform.
The July 2018 Rejuvenation Roundup is out!
Another month, another series of great news items for healthy life extension enthusiasts! It’s hard to believe that July is already behind us and, with it, the first Lifespan.io conference in New York City; let’s take a look back and review the past month before diving into the next one.
The Rejuvenation Roundup podcast
https://www.undoing-aging.org/videos/nichola-conlon-presenti…aging-2018
Btw: the facebook event page for Undoing Aging 2019 is already up fb.com/events/2044104465916196/
A discussion about why life extension isn’t selfish.
The topic of life extension is much more debated these days than before. As a result, more people who are not in the field talk about it, and they don’t always do so in praising terms. Articles written by outsiders tend to be conservative at best and fear-mongering at worst, mainly focusing on the potential downsides of life-extending technologies without paying much attention, if any, to the benefits, as if there weren’t any to begin with.
One accusation that is often thrown at life extensionists is that they would be selfish for wanting to extend their lives. It is all too easy to say that all that life extensionists think about is their own benefit while disregarding the common good, but it’s not too difficult to see how this is entirely wrong.
A new interview on LEAF with biogerontologist Dr. João Pedro de Magalhães.
Today, we have an interview with Dr. João Pedro de Magalhães, the biogerontologist who created and runs senescence.info. In the unlikely event that his name is new to you, we had another interview with him last year, which you can check out here.
How do you think we age; are we programmed to die, do we wear out, or is the truth a mixture of both?
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The year is 2050 and researchers have developed an advanced method of replacing 99% of your brain’s functions for digital software/hardware. The process is slow to ensure individuals aren’t simply making copies of themselves. But in return, “digital immortality” has been achieved.
In a future of mind-uploaded “immortals,” will we achieve unlimited freedom or will we simply become slaves to a private entity which owns the data that makes up our own digital minds?
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