20 extra years of living or 20 years of dying?
The idea of a long life is something that may seem appealing. However, does an old age with poor mobility, multiple health issues and a poor quality of life really appeal? Or, is a life with minimal health issues what we really seek?
Although life expectancy in the UK is 82 years, healthy life expectancy is only 62, according to the Office of National Statistics (23). That means the average person has a significant irreversible disease by the age of 62. The last 20 years for the average person is lived in ill health.
It doesn’t need to be that way.
If you don’t want to look and feel old as you advance in years then keep reading to discover some simple hacks, based on the latest science, that you can implement today.
If you have been following the longevity space for some time you will be aware that this research is now entering the mainstream with serious institutes and researchers involved.
To name just three:
- Shinki Yamanaka, a Nobel Prize Winner for his work on stem cell research;
- Professor David Sinclair, a genetics Professor and director of the Centre for Biology of Ageing at Harvard Medical School, author of Lifespan and podcaster;
- Nir Barzilai, director of the Institute for Ageing Research at Einstein College of Medicine, who was instrumental in getting the FDA to reclassify ageing as a disease, and is now Scientific Director of the TAME trial.
Major institutions are producing impactful studies that have won Nobel Prizes. Research is being published in leading journals such as Nature, Science, and the New England Journal Medicine.
The billionaires seeking eternal youth – Jeff Bezos and Google join the race for eternal youth.
There is nothing new in the ultra-rich seeking eternal life and there is some serious investment going into anti-ageing companies because the science of ageing is now a valid area of research. Big pharma can see how lucrative it is. The major players are: Altos Labs, which is being backed by Jeff Bezos with Prof Yamanaka as chairperson; Calico Labs, backed by Google with hundreds of millions of dollars; and Cambrian.
We explore some of the major advances in recent years and have included links to the relevant publications in the bibliography at the end of this article:
- We will start by looking at groundbreaking stem cell research
- The role of epigenetics in ageing
- The discovery of three major anti-ageing pathways.
- The things you can start using today to live both better and longer
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