Pursuit of Longevity

Fight Aging!

Do you want to live a longer life in good health? Simple practices can make some difference, such as exercise or calorie restriction. But over the long haul all that really matters is progress in medicine: building new classes of therapy to repair and reverse the known root causes of aging. The sooner these treatments arrive, the more lives will be saved. Find out how to help »

Acumen Journal of Sciences is running a for and against pair of articles on healthy life extension (found via the Immortality Institute). The pro-death, anti-research article is here. Medical scientists are working hard and obtaining results, but there is still a hill to climb while some doctors and researchers loudly declaim the need to block healthy life extension research. As I have said before, the biggest hurdle to overcome is public understanding and acceptance of the true potentials of medical research.

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