Download it once and read it on your kindle device, pc, phones or tablets. Lee child to those who lurk in the shadows, hes known as the gray man. He is the cofounder and director of science of sens research foundation, the organization that develops methods to combat aging. He works on the development of what he calls strategies for engineered negligible senescence sens. An actuary told me a while back that if we excluded aging as a cause of death it will be quite realistic that we would live to around 700 years on average until we succumbed to some other event.
In conversation with biologists, he was astonished to find that no one else was addressing what seemed obvious to him. In addition to his research, aubrey is editorinchief of the academic journal rejuvenation research, author of the mitochondrial free radical theory of aging 1999 and coauthor of ending aging 2007. He provocatively proposes that the first human beings. Discover the transferability of research as a skill and the multidisciplinary nature of innovation, the core ideas behind the cutting edge research on human aging and how to successfully spread your message to attract interest to. His major research interests are the role and etiology of all forms of cellular and molecular damage in mammalian aging, and the design of interventions to reverse the agerelated accumulation of such damage. He is editorin chief of rejuvenation research, is a fellow of both the gerontological society of america and the american aging association, and sits on the editorial and scientific. Are there any similarlybacked critiques from more recently. Why did you specifically write a book about that topic.
Chief science officer and cofounderreceived his ph. After beginning his career in artificial intelligence, dr. Proaging trance is the term i made up when i started to talk to people. The fact is that aging is really a very ghastly thing, and weve known that for a long time. I had been wondering about the legitimacy of the idea of radical life extension, and was lead to this book.
People often ask me, when are you going to write a new book when are you going to update ending aging. Apr 01, 2008 ending aging is the first book to apply engineering perspectives and disciplines to the process of aging. He provocatively proposes that the first human beings who will live to 1,000 years old have already been born. A roadmap to end aging wed like here at dreamingrobots to bring to you attention talks and academic work related to robotics, cybernetics and transhumanism. This means that the remaining human body only last about 10 years. It is this new concept that makes ending aging a breakthrough watershed book in the field. I really enjoyed the interview but why is this article called 7 natural antiaging strategies that will stop your body from getting prematurely old and worndown. Jun 08, 2014 my book ending aging is also written to be comprehensible to nonbiologists, but its extremely detailed and no biologist reading it would feel shortchanged. Natural antiaging strategies ben greenfield fitness.
Whether hes right or not isnt really the point since no one can know for sure. Learn what happens in our bodies that leads to aging, disease and cancer and how modern science might be able to put an end to these problems once and for all. As has been reported in media outlets ranging from 60 minutes to the new york times, dr. His specific plan for working toward this critical goal, which goes by the name of sens strategies for engineering negligible senescence, is currently the subject of research in a number of biology labs. He is a legend in the covert realm, moving silently from job to job, accomplishing the impossible and then fading away. You can visit and look at the summary of the principles over there. Negligible senescence, and author of a number of books including ending aging. Then of course there is my corpus of academic output that first described the sens approach and its merits. Occassionally, well offer some commentaries, thoughts, and indepth readings on such work. However, the more interesting part of his book on the subject, ending aging pdf summary, is that children alive today may be able to. By default, i am skeptical about antiaging techniques or claims of some sort of fountain of youth. It is no longer acceptable to make your peace with aging.
Aging rejuvenation is a thing fresh interview with. How much of the future of antiaging treatments will involve regeneration of old. You might know aubrey from his appearances on 60 minutes, the bbc, the new york times, fortune, the colbert report, or his popular ted talk. Aubrey recommends you his book ending aging which covers the strategy in lots of detail. They explain that the aging of the human body, just like the aging of manmade machines, results from an accumulation of various types of damage. The list of many presentations aubrey has done at tedx events across the world s. Published for the first time in 2007, ending aging by dr. Hes just underestimated the difficulty of solving the problem. Im very interested and fascinated by the idea of deaging and how to live much, much longer than what people expect. So if you think aging is a disease and not a natural process, its probably underfunded and you should consider giving him money. Since your book ending aging was published a decade ago, scientific breakthroughs in stem cell research, genome editing, and other fields have taken the world by storm.
The rejuvenation breakthroughs that could reverse human aging in our lifetime 2007, it was an accessible introduction to the. I believe aging to be a solvable problem in the sense that people will someday routinely live to 125150 years, and more likely than not, nearimmortality will eventually i. Remove all telemorase genes from all cells of the human body. He argues that aging can be cured if its approached as an engineering problem. He attributes this to a mindset he calls the proaging. He is the cofounder of sens, a californiabased research institute dedicated to antiaging research with a strong focus on regenerative medicine. Most antiaging treatments, like the one above, are still in experimental stages. Known for his book ending aging, he has taken his research on regenerative medicine to a new leveland he has his own research center to prove it. He believes that like the myth of tithonus, scientists today are too.
Foundation for the research of strategies for engineered negligible senescence sens founded by dr. Engineering isnt done by mastering every trait, but by bounding problems within a tolerance level where predictability is possible. Ending aging 2007 puts forward a fascinating theory about how science may allow human beings to slow the hands of time and, therefore, the process of aging. As research for going gray, 500 people responded to a survey anne designed to probe peoples concerns about aging.
However, the more interesting part of his book on the subject, ending aging pdf summary, is that. As an english biomedical gerontologist, he claims that humans can live for a thousand years. His major research interests are the role and causes of all forms of cellular and molecular damage in mammalian aging, and the design of interventions to reverse the agerelated accumulation of such damage. Also of the signatories of that second paper are from the buck institute for age research, or as it is now known, the buck institute for research on aging. It is very feasible once you understand how it works. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading ending aging.
If youve heard him speak before, youll know that he is one of. Download for offline reading, highlight, bookmark or take notes while you read ending aging. The rejuvenation breakthroughs that could reverse human aging in our lifetime 2007, it was an accessible introduction to the biology of aging, and a way that it might be defeated. In 1999 he published a book entitled the mitochondrial free radical theory of aging, in which he explains that the damage inflicted on mitochondria during our lives is the. Yet, in the sense that matters most, aging is just like smoking. However, the more interesting part of his book on the subject, ending aging, is that children alive today may be able to. The sens perspective on aging is easy to summarize at the high level. The rejuvenation breakthroughs that could reverse human aging in our lifetime.
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