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Investors are pouring money into startups that are trying to find a cure for aging

Active discussion on tne most effective technologies in comments to this page post. Number one is blood plasma-derived therapy.


Money has been pouring into startups researching longevity as treatments for aging become more of a reality. Here are the venture funds and pharma companies placing bets.

Choosing Health Early On

A thought experiment to see whether life extension might contribute to your happiness.


Today, we’re going to engage in a thought experiment. We’re going to imagine a world with some sort of antechamber to life in which you hang around as some sort of disembodied entity before you are born. (Some people actually believe in something like that, but we won’t go there; it’s just a thought experiment.)

The Choice to Be Born

Let’s suppose that, as a disembodied soul, you have a somewhat human outlook on things: you want to enjoy new experiences, avoid unpleasant circumstances, and so forth. Let us further suppose that you have a choice over being born or not and that someone comes along and tries to get you sold on the idea of being born. Neither of you can predict the future and know exactly how good or bad a life you would have, but you do know the gist of it—what stages you need to go through, what issues may manifest, etc.

NAD+ Mouse New Stretch Goal Announced

Yesterday, we announced the successful completion of the NAD+ Mouse Project after a great fundraiser, but it seems we are not done yet. The research team at Harvard has announced a new stretch goal for the last two days of the campaign.

A new $75,000 goal is to be the final step, and to support that, Dr. David Sinclair is offering to fund match the next $5000 in donations to the project to help it reach this final goal. So, for the next two days, all donations are worth double.

The final goal will be to add even more comprehensive testing, such as end-of-life pathology (frequency and specificity of neoplasms/tumors/cancer) and MRI diagnostics (body composition, lean-to-fat ratio). This would really allow the researchers to maximize the useful data they collect during the study and help assess any changes to cancer risk, why each animal died, and what age-related diseases were affected by the drug.

Dr. Antonei Csoka at Ending Age-Related Diseases 2018 — Aging as Meta-Disease

Good information 💜.


Dr. Antonei Csoka of Howard University discusses the concept of aging as meta-disease and about the hierarchy of some of the Hallmarks of Aging. He also discusses some of the philosophical and metaphysical underpinnings for the goal of overcoming age-related disease.

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