Life Extension Foundation (LEF) is a non-profit research-based foundation headquartered in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, established by co-founders Saul Kent and William Faloon in 1980. Its primary purpose is to fund research and disseminate information on life extension, preventive medicine, “anti-aging” and optimal health, with a focus on hormonal and nutritional supplementation, deriving much of its [...]
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Transhumanists believe that humans can and should use technologies to become more than human. Examples of the types of technologies that have become the focus of transhumanism include: * Anti-aging * Artificial intelligence * Augmented reality * Biomedical Engineering * Bionics * Biotechnology * Brain-computer interface * Cloning ** Human cloning ** Therapeutic cloning * [...]
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Diets and supplements Much life extension research focuses on nutrition—diets or supplements—as a means to extend lifespan, although few of these have been systematically tested for significant longevity effects. The many diets promoted by anti-aging advocates are often contradictory. For example, two diets with different approaches and some support from scientific research are the Paleolithic [...]
There is a great deal of over-heated rhetoric in use with respect to life extension with over-optimistic projections on the part of its advocates. There is little evidence that any significant break through has been made, or is on the horizon. A study of the common supplements and hormone treatments used published in 2006 in [...]
anti-aging movement is a social movement of physicians and other health providers and patients, usually aging and wealthy, who are engaged in an assault on the effects of aging. A substantial portion of the attention of the movement is on the possibilities for life extension, but there is also interest in techniques such as cosmetic [...]
This article discusses the controversy surrounding whether sugar and other refined carbohydrates contribute to the devolopment of cancer.
I was a huge fan of Michael Jackson. A lot of grown men would be embarrassed to admit that, but not me. Not only was he a brilliant performer and songwriter that defined the 1980’s which made up most of my adolescence, there was something else that caused me to feel I had a special understanding of who he was.
Telomeres are the structures at the end of chromosomes that are characterized by thousands of tandem repeats of the nucleotide sequence TTAGGG. Studies reveal that at every passing stage of human life these sequences of nucleotides shorten gradually during every process of cell replication and division.
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