Aging Matters
This is the text of a brief presentation that I delivered yesterday in DC at a symposium on radical life extension. In a new experiment (for me), I’ve prepared a self-presenting powerpoint, with voice and images that you can view either with PPT software or as a Youtube video. —————————— In the old view of aging, … Read more
When it comes to calories, inefficiency is the name of the game. We know that less weight is healthier and leads to longer life, but the desire to eat runs deep, and dieting through willpower works for almost no one. So we look for tricks that will let us eat more and weigh less. Two … Read more
Aubrey de Grey has rallied the world’s scientific community and its funders to attack the biological basis of aging, which underlies the majority of disease and suffering in the developed world. Since 2003, he has organized bi-annual conferences, bringing together innovative biologists, medical researchers and a few policy wonks to share knowledge and perspectives, to … Read more
One of the oldest and best-established theories of aging holds that we age because of oxidative damage. In the classic version, the body exploits high-energy chemistry based on oxidation for an energy supply at the cellular level, but this involves constant exposure to these high-energy species and the free radicals that are their by-products, species … Read more