Aging is an enemy. It saps our strength, cripples and eventually kills us. Yet there is a lack of information, advocacy and awareness of healthy life extension research, of initiatives aimed at the defeat of aging, and of the plausible future of rejuvenation biotechnology.

Much of the general public thinks of aging as inevitable and natural, a fact of life written in stone rather than a medical condition that may one day be curable. Comparatively few people know that the effects of aging can be slowed with diet and lifestyle choices, just as for many other medical conditions. Ongoing research aimed at repairing known types of age-related cellular damage - aimed at true rejuvenation, in other words - does not receive the widespread publicity and support it deserves.

Fight Aging! began as a blog in 2004, an outgrown of the non-profit advocacy organization the Longevity Meme, that was itself formed in mid-2001. Both are projects launched and maintained by Reason, an advocate and technologist with a long-standing interest in the development of longevity-enhancing biotechnology for humans.

The mission of Fight Aging! remains the same as it was at the outset: to encourage the development of medical technologies, lifestyles, and other means that will help people live comfortably, healthily, and capably for as long as they desire, well beyond the current limits of mortality. Fight Aging! exists to help ensure that the means and potentials of extended human longevity become commonly accepted throughout the world. To this end, Fight Aging! publishes material to publicize, promote, educate and raise awareness, activities that form a vital step on the road towards far healthier, far longer lives for all.

Immediate Aims

Fight Aging! pursues the following goals at the present time:

• Introduce more people to healthy life extension practices, longevity science, and the associated community of researchers, advocates, and supporters
• Make it easier for people to find useful, scientific information on extending the human life span
• Drive more funding into longevity research and the development of rejuvenation biotechnology

Until longevity advocacy movements become louder, more active, and more mainstream, progress in developing the means to postpone and reverse the biological damage of aging will continue to be frustratingly slow.

If you have questions about Fight Aging!, suggestions, or comments, please do contact Reason.