Posted on 06/27/2008 5:27:50 AM PDT by Schnucki
Aging 2008 registration is appreciated but not required. You can check in at the door at 4pm.
Leading aging scientists and public policy experts will gather at UCLA tomorrow. This is the first time that an event like this has taken place anywhere. We hope to see you there!
Applying the new technologies of regenerative and genetic medicine, the engineering approach to aging promises to dramatically extend healthy human life within the next few decades.
How do you and your loved ones stand to benefit from the coming biomedical revolution? Are you prepared? Is society prepared?
At Aging 2008 you will engage with top scientists and advocates as they present their findings and advice, and learn what you can do to help accelerate progress towards a cure for the disease and suffering of aging.
Doors open at 4:00 pm on June 27th, 2008, at UCLA's Royce Hall. Entry is free and includes a complimentary drinks reception before the presentations begin. For an additional $30, attendees also have the opportunity to attend a special dinner with the speakers.
Aging 2008 is the opening session for the technically focused Understanding Aging conference, running June 28-29 at UCLA.
All questions should be directed to the main organizer: Aubrey de Grey. Press: Email Aubrey your info to get a press pass.
If someone offered me a pill that would make me live to 120 years, I would have to decline.
Death is part of my life plan, living that long would leave me looking for a job to make ends meet untill I was 100.
resveratrol!
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Medicine has spent a lot of time finding ways to keep people alive. Hopefully they will start to find ways to extend the quality of life. I’m watching too many friends and family now in their 80’s, alive because of medicine yet they too frail to enjoy life.
It seems as if I've been hearing claims like this most of my life, but dramatically longer life never seems to be achieved, and major risks of aging, like dementia, remain untreatable.
It’s a trick. No matter what they say, you will emerge from this seminar having aged approximatly 4 hours, just like every body else on the planet.
Do you take this and if so what are the results? I almost ordered some the other day from lef.org but then decided to wait.
I’m sorry, I keep mentioning this ad nauseum (but it’s true!). I’m an ACE fitness trainer. Exercise, good diet. There you go. Ask Jack Lalanne (94, body of a 35 year old man, still going strong, strong, strong).
Aging? What’s that? I have yet to understand it, and I should probably know, what with a mere 8 decades behind me while I’m working hard as a marketing manager in my 15th job since “retirement.” I also do golf, tennis, gardening, walking and keep up with my four daily natural juice supplement drinks that make me think I’m about 35. I keep energized by my daily shot of FR truths and info from other conservative sites, just to keep up with events. Some day I’ll give it all up, but please, not right now!
http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/aubrey_de_grey_says_we_can_avoid_aging.html
It’s no joke. If you spend 18 minutes listening to Aubrey de Grey, you’ll find he’s cutting edge on the true nature of aging processes. It’s pretty wild.
DK
And all those veggie juices - he is amazing!
I need to get with the program!!!!
God love ya! Don’t give it up, you’re doing everything right!
Heh. I train through the net if you’re interested!
how do you do that? I’m in Settle and Portland btw.
Please tell about your four daily natural juice supplements drinks!
It is something that will only work over time, the anti-oxidant properties will be noticeable after about 30 days most of the time, and you will really notice how different you feel after you STOP taking it! :)
I take the OPC-3 and Multitech men’s vitamin, they are all isotonic and you absorb mmore of it and much faster
I did try the resveratrol, but I cant afford to ake all of them so I went back to just the OPC-3 and the Multitech as my minimum daily supplements
It’s all about the anti-oxidents
Resveratrol, OPC-3, these are the wave of the future
Working on my website now (which should be up in about a week). One on one with my clients through the site, email, streaming video, animated exercise examples, meal plans, etc. Just like in person, except that I’m not in your home (and it costs a lot less). I also do face-to-face with clients in my own area (D.C./Virginia/Maryland/Dover Delaware). You submit a weekly accountability log (nutrition and exercise), etc. The website isn’t finished yet, but if anyone is interested, send me your email and I will send you the link. There’s a video tour there so you can see what you’ll get once the site is up and running.
I’ve read Aubrey’s most recent book, Ending Aging, and subscribe to his email newsletter. My only nitpick is that, like many brilliant innovators, Aubrey thinks his approach is the ONLY approach. He continually urges his readers to eschew supplements which he dismisses as worthless and send all of their money to his research organization. Since I have been engaged in a personal life extension experiment for the past 30 years, I reject his advice. I believe that my experiment has borne fruit in that I appear to have only physically aged 20 years during the 30 year period. Based on rat experiments I would expect to slow my aging by 30-50%. So if it works on me like it works on lab rats I should be around another 50 years. That’s long enough to reap the benefits of Aubrey’s breakthroughs.
A fact of life is that there are very good reasons that people do not have the same metabolic rate, the same level of health, the same level of personal energy, or even the same *type* of personal energy.
Properly speaking, though, there are lots of sub-classes of people who share some characteristics, but not all. If you figure out these sub-classes, you will make a big stride in understanding how people function.
For example, if you look at your peer group, there were some children who were ready for marriage and to raise a family halfway through high school. But there were also the majority of children who had nowhere near that level of maturity.
The “fast” group most likely did get married and have children as soon as they were able. Their children were teenagers before some of their peers even considered marriage. And they were likely grandparents when their peers just had young children for the first time.
Finally, the “fast” group are ready for retirement at 45 and old age at 50. Mid-life for most of their peers, and hardly that for the other extreme of their peers, who are just getting married and having children at 40. This “slow” group is in their late 80s before they enter old age.
Interestingly, this enormous difference in metabolic rate is not necessarily associated with health, which seems to have its own track. That is, the “fast” group may die young or may live to extreme old age, albeit with great-great grandchildren when they are still alive. They may or may not suffer a life of ill-health as well.
Yet another sub-class, unique to itself, is the mode in which people live. That is, the way people address the world around them. The filter for their “in and out” of data. This revolves around whether a person is physically oriented, intellectually oriented, or emotionally oriented. Even though everybody needs all three, they tend to focus on just one.
That is, a physical person is a “natural athlete” who is always bouncing about. They tend to be very tactile in communication, understanding physical contact between people almost like language. Which in our society often gets them in trouble, since they are in the minority. They often have difficulty with intellectualism and emotional finesse.
Intellectual people are the “brains”, still a minority, who use reason and logic, even when in an emotional situation or when action is needed.
The vast majority of people are emotionally oriented, and emotions are the way they relate to other people.
A good illustration of this is when a glass is knocked off a table. An emotional person will fret about it, or get angry, or cast blame, etc. The intellectual person will ponder why it fell off the table, with little emotional investment. And finally, a physical person will catch the glass before it hits the floor.
Again, everybody has to use all three to get by, but tend to focus on the one they are most comfortable with.
Just another sub-class in all sorts of sub-classes.
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