Tag: lifeextension

The Science of Longevity

HFCS is bailing out social security by making sure all these boomers die soon of cardiovascular diseases.

Elder age

50% of the people in human history who ever reached the age of 65 are alive now.

Reversing the Life Cycle

Medusa Turritopsis nutricula can transform back into colonial hydroids, thus achieving potential immortality. This is the first metazoan known to revert to a juvenile morph after having achieved sexual maturity.

dilbert on life extension

Immortal jellyfish

Turritopsis Nutricula is able to revert back to a juvenile form through transdifferentiation once it mates after becoming sexually mature. Scientists believe the cycle can repeat indefinitely, rendering it potentially immortal.

Methusaleh fruit flies

selective breeding over 28 years has resulted in flies that live 4.5x longer than normal. Over 700 genes have been identified as affecting longevity. The flies share 75% of human genes.

SRT1720

Mice given the new drug, called SRT1720, gorged on high-fat food for 4 months without gaining weight or developing diabetes, and ran 2x as far on a treadmill as their control-group counterparts. The effects of the compound are similar to those of resveratrol, a molecule found in red wine that has previously been shown to extend life span and have health benefits in mice. But SRT1720 is 1000x more potent than resveratrol, meaning that it could be taken in smaller doses.

Living to 150

the more older reporters and journalists that there are on 60 minutes and ABC and other places then the more there will be favorable shows of this type.

heh

Abolishing ageing

SENS on the way to the mainstream

Supercentenarian

someone who has reached the age of 110 years or more, something achieved by only 0.1% of centenarians. Furthermore, only 2% of supercentenarians live to be 115.

2014-11-13: Polygenic Supercentenarians, meaning that there isn’t a smoking gun simple enough for our currently primitive understanding.

We found no significant evidence of enrichment for a single rare protein-altering variant or for a gene harboring different rare protein altering variants in supercentenarian compared to control genomes

2023-09-08: Occam’s razor says bad record keeping

the number of of extremely old people is positively correlated with poverty, shorter average life spans and illiteracy. All factors which are difficult to explain if we think these factors are causally related to health but which make sense if we think that the explanation is unreliable birth and death records. Supercentenarian birthdates also exhibit patterns such as age-heaping that are “strongly indicative of manufactured birth data.”