Author by: Aubrey de Grey Language: en Publisher by: St. Martin's Press Format Available: PDF, ePub, Mobi Total Read: 82 Total Download: 832 File Size: 48,5 Mb Description: MUST WE AGE? A long life in a healthy, vigorous, youthful body has always been one of humanity's greatest dreams. Recent progress in genetic manipulations and calorie-restricted diets in laboratory animals hold forth the promise that someday science will enable us to exert total control over our own biological aging. Nearly all scientists who study the biology of aging agree that we will someday be able to substantially slow down the aging process, extending our productive, youthful lives. Aubrey de Grey is perhaps the most bullish of all such researchers.
Aubrey de Grey has summarised his ideas on Strategies for Engineering Negligible. Senescence – SENS – into his book Ending Ageing. He groups the. Ending aging will require large-scale investment to flow into a. Aubrey de Grey, Ph.D. — Chief Science Officer and Co-founder—received his Ph.D.
As has been reported in media outlets ranging from 60 Minutes to The New York Times, Dr. De Grey believes that the key biomedical technology required to eliminate aging-derived debilitation and death entirely—technology that would not only slow but periodically reverse age-related physiological decay, leaving us biologically young into an indefinite future—is now within reach.
In Ending Aging, Dr. De Grey and his research assistant Michael Rae describe the details of this biotechnology.
They explain that the aging of the human body, just like the aging of man-made machines, results from an accumulation of various types of damage. As with man-made machines, this damage can periodically be repaired, leading to indefinite extension of the machine's fully functional lifetime, just as is routinely done with classic cars. We already know what types of damage accumulate in the human body, and we are moving rapidly toward the comprehensive development of technologies to remove that damage. By demystifying aging and its postponement for the nonspecialist reader, de Grey and Rae systematically dismantle the fatalist presumption that aging will forever defeat the efforts of medical science.
Author by: Bryant Villeponteau, Ph.D. Language: en Publisher by: Booktango Format Available: PDF, ePub, Mobi Total Read: 65 Total Download: 767 File Size: 47,7 Mb Description: Have you ever wondered why we age and if you could slow its progression?
In DECODING LONGEVITY, aging expert Dr. Bryant Villeponteau offers a full spectrum biological and genetic review of the aging process in layman's language. He condenses a wealth of practical information for those interested in extending their health and longevity, including dietary, exercise, and supplement recommendations that could add decades to your healthspan. Villeponteau looks in detail at the last 20 years of aging research, and explores future developments, including the exponential increases in technology that will provide powerful tools for extending healthy longevity over the next 20 to 40 years. Author by: Joshua Mitteldorf Language: en Publisher by: CRC Press Format Available: PDF, ePub, Mobi Total Read: 65 Total Download: 775 File Size: 44,8 Mb Description: Although books exist on the evolution of aging, this is the first book written from the perspective of again as an adaptive program. It offers an insight into the implications of research on aging genetics, The author proposes the Demographic Theory of Senescence, whereby aging has been affirmatively selected because it levels the death rate over time helping stabilize population dynamics and prevent extinctions. Author by: Language: en Publisher by: Springer Science & Business Media Format Available: PDF, ePub, Mobi Total Read: 73 Total Download: 761 File Size: 51,6 Mb Description: Just as the health costs of aging threaten to bankrupt developed countries, this book makes the scientific case that a biological 'bailout' could be on the way, and that human aging can be different in the future than it is today.
Here 40 authors argue how our improving understanding of the biology of aging and selected technologies should enable the successful use of many different and complementary methods for ameliorating aging, and why such interventions are appropriate based on our current historical, anthropological, philosophical, ethical, evolutionary, and biological context. Challenging concepts are presented together with in-depth reviews and paradigm-breaking proposals that collectively illustrate the potential for changing aging as never before. The proposals extend from today to a future many decades from now in which the control of aging may become effectively complete. Examples include sirtuin-modulating pills, new concepts for attacking cardiovascular disease and cancer, mitochondrial rejuvenation, stem cell therapies and regeneration, tissue reconstruction, telomere maintenance, prevention of immunosenescence, extracellular rejuvenation, artificial DNA repair, and full deployment of nanotechnology.
The Future of Aging will make you think about aging differently and is a challenge to all of us to open our eyes to the future therapeutic potential of biogerontology. Author by: Aharon W.
Language: en Publisher by: ABC-CLIO Format Available: PDF, ePub, Mobi Total Read: 30 Total Download: 997 File Size: 44,7 Mb Description: Separating truth from hype, this book introduces readers to the topic of life extension in a holistic manner that provides scientific, historical, and cultural perspectives. Examines the topic of extending human life in a holistic, unbiased manner, exploring the subject from a variety of perspectives and contexts. Provides readers with additional insights into current controversies and debates related to the subject. Includes sidebars that offer additional high-interest, ready-reference content as well as a list of resources, a bibliography, and an index. Author by: Gregory Mone Language: en Publisher by: Bloomsbury Publishing Format Available: PDF, ePub, Mobi Total Read: 87 Total Download: 696 File Size: 50,7 Mb Description: We all know Santa Claus: fat, jolly, omniscient, swift.
Lives in a nice home in the Arctic, with the missus and a pack of elves. Well, forget what you know. Santa Claus is from Greenpoint, Brooklyn, as it turns out, and he's not as fat as he used to be. Here's something else you didn't know: he's been dabbling in some futuristic technology, and has found myriad ways to make his job possible. How can Santa know who's been naughty and nice? Simple: implant listening devices into your ornaments. How can he make it to every house on Christmas Eve?
That's nothing a little cloning and some wormholes can't solve. And he has plenty of other tactics: quantum entanglement, organ replacement, drug-induced hibernation and unmanned aerial vehicles, to name just a few. In this fantastically illustrated, affectionate and hilarious book, Gregory Mone uses science and technology to overturn the assumption that Santa can't be real. Drawing on the work of accomplished scientists and researchers, Mone gives us a whole new portrait of this remarkable man and the miracles he makes happen every year. With imaginative artwork and an eye-catching package, this book makes an outstanding Christmas gift for just about anyone. Author by: John Frederic Kilner Language: en Publisher by: Wm. Eerdmans Publishing Format Available: PDF, ePub, Mobi Total Read: 91 Total Download: 130 File Size: 40,5 Mb Description: In today's society, where life and death are increasingly becoming matters of choice, life is on the line.
Kilner explores topics such as 'active' and 'passive' euthanasia, suicide, quality of life, living wills, and the criteria for deciding who will receive access to vital treatments that cannot be provided to all. Contrasts a Biblically-grounded ethics with other ethical approaches commonly employed today. Author by: Patti Harter Language: en Publisher by: Format Available: PDF, ePub, Mobi Total Read: 16 Total Download: 840 File Size: 40,8 Mb Description: The main purpose of this book is to be a vehicle for funding anti-aging research which is currently not funded by the United States Government despite the fact Medicare and Medicaid are predicted to bankrupt the country in the next few decades.
Funds for research and development have been denied to scientists on the basis that aging is a 'natural process.' A ridiculous excuse most believe is designed to protect the interest of the pharmaceutical companies.
Ninety percent (90%) of royalties from this book will be dedicated to anti-aging research. One-Heart's goal is to raise $50 million dollars for R&D. Below is a letter of endorsement from a leading anti-aging scientist. De Grey's biography can be found in Wikipedia:: Letter of Endorsement By Dr. Aubrey de Grey, Chief Science Officer SENS.org: I am generally recognized as the pioneer of the now-mainstream 'comprehensive damage repair' approach to extending health in old age, commonly known as SENS, and my primary affiliation is Chief Science Officer of SENS Research Foundation. I have dedicated my life to the development of medical technologies that can truly bring aging under the same degree of medical control that we have today over most infectious diseases, so that everyone will be able to remain both physically and mentally youthful however long they live.
As the expert community and the wider world become progressively more aware that we are within striking distance of that goal - one which has preoccupied humanity since the dawn of civilization - we are more and more in need of communicators who can get that message across to the public powerfully enough to dispel the ubiquitous fear of getting one's hopes up. In the many current debates over health care it has been predicted that the cost of Medicare and Medicaid will eventually bankrupt the USA due to the increase in the aging population with its associated ill-health. The same is equally true worldwide. Anti-aging research should, therefore, be high on the government's list of priorities - but, unfortunately, it is not. Instead there is little if any public or private funding allocated to the most critical such research, because it is seen as too early-stage for most large companies but also too translational for standard government grants. Regenerative medicine is an emerging science that holds great promise for ending aging and many of the diseases that plague humankind.
Patti Harter's new book, Announcing the Coming End of Biological Aging and Disease, presents the process for the beginning of that transformation. The book is designed to provide funding for this important research. This is a wonderful opportunity to make a positive difference in the world. Author by: Bryan S Turner Language: en Publisher by: Routledge Format Available: PDF, ePub, Mobi Total Read: 22 Total Download: 592 File Size: 49,6 Mb Description: In the last three decades, the human body has gained increasing prominence in contemporary political debates, and it has become a central topic of modern social sciences and humanities. Modern technologies – such as organ transplants, stem-cell research, nanotechnology, cosmetic surgery and cryonics – have changed how we think about the body.
In this collection of thirty original essays by leading figures in the field, these issues are explored across a number of theoretical and disciplinary perspectives, including pragmatism, feminism, queer theory, post-modernism, post-humanism, cultural sociology, philosophy and anthropology. A wide range of case studies, which include cosmetics, diet, organ transplants, racial bodies, masculinity and sexuality, eating disorders, religion and the sacred body, and disability, are used to appraise these different perspectives. In addition, this Handbook explores various epistemological approaches to the basic question: what is a body? It also offers a strongly themed range of chapters on empirical topics that are organized around religion, medicine, gender, technology and consumption.
It also contributes to the debate over the globalization of the body: how have military technology, modern medicine, sport and consumption led to this contemporary obsession with matters corporeal? The Handbook’s clear, direct style will appeal to a wide undergraduate audience in the social sciences, particularly for those studying medical sociology, gender studies, sports studies, disability studies, social gerontology, or the sociology of religion. It will serve to consolidate the new field of body studies.