X-Message-Number: 14722 Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2000 19:06:25 -0700 (PDT) From: Scott Badger <> Subject: Immortality by 2029? Forwarding from Extropian List: *********************************** From Internet Wire, http://www1.internetwire.com/iwire/release_clickthrough?release_id=17292&category=Medical/Health - "Human Immortality Is Achievable By The Year 2029," Proclaims Ronald Klatz, M.D., Pioneering Biotech Guru And Founding Physician Of Anti-Aging Movement CHICAGO, IL -- (INTERNET WIRE) -- 10/02/2000 -- In the October 2000 issue of Anti-Aging Medical News, an official scientific newsletter servicing a physician readership in excess of 50,000 worldwide, Dr. Ronald Klatz, Senior Fellow at Tufts University, President of the 10,000 member American Academy of Anti-Aging Medicine (A4M, Chicago, IL), and inventor/administrator of more than 100 US biotech patents, advances his longstanding thesis that life expectancy projections based on pastcast models will be quickly abandoned in favor of a new forecasting projection of longevity that focuses on five emerging technologies which, taken collectively, will be the singlemost important innovation that delivers boundless vitality to humankind within the next three decades. Dr. Klatz's authoritative report on the future of human life expectancy debunks pessimistic claims of a predetermined and finite limit to human lifespan as advanced by S. Jay Olshansky, demographer at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Olshansky, whose statistics-centered, non-clinical research is underwritten by the National Institute of Aging, is part of an arcane and ineffective movement seeking to squelch the voice of forward-looking physicians and scientists who embrace cutting-edge medical and biotechnological advancements that will help us to achieve human immortality. Olshansky, who since 1990 has clung to historical statistical analyses purporting that the elimination of cancer, heart disease, and diabetes would increase life expectancy only to about age 85, and would proliferate disabling conditions such as arthritis, Alzheimer's disease, and vision and hearing losses in advanced age, is now contradicted by a highly reputable and objective source. In a new study published by the prestigious Science magazine (Sep 29 2000: 2366-2368), "Increase in Maximum Life-Span in Sweden, 1861-1999," we learn that in Sweden, the maximum age at death has risen from 100 years during the 1860s to about 108 years during the 1990s. The study's authoring team, demographers J. R. Wilmoth and L. J. Deegan of the University of California/Berkeley along with H. Lundstr m, and S. Horiuchi, acknowledge that "an intensification of efforts to prevent or even cure ailments such as coronary heart disease, stroke, and cancer" has profoundly contributed to "the more rapid rise in the maximum age since 1969." In "Making the Quantum Leap to Human Immortality in the Year 2029" appearing in the October 2000 issue of Anti-Aging Medical News, Dr. Klatz advances the concept of The Longevity Link, a novel representation of the impact of five key biomedical technologies on gains in human longevity. According to Dr. Klatz's LEx Equation, medical knowledge and technology doubles every 3.5 years and gains in human longevity are directly proportional to the cumulative sum of advancements in the biotech fields of: stem cells, giving rise to a supply of human cells, tissues, and organs for use in acute emergency care as well as treatment of chronic, debilitating disease: cloning, a technique holding tremendous promise in producing consistent organs, tissues, and proteins for biomedical use in humans nanotechnology, enabling scientists to use tiny tools to manipulate human biology at its most basic levels artificial organs, making replacement body parts available digital cerebral interface, a technology to transfer one's thoughts, sensory perceptions, emotions, personality, and autonomic body responses -- to computer storage device, enabling your memories and consciousness to survive in the event of your physical death Says Dr. Klatz, "The accelerating biotech revolution leads us to the incontrovertible conclusion that human immortality -- lifespans beyond 120 years -- may well be delivered by the year 2029. The arrival at the Ageless Society is believed by leaders in the government, commercial, and private sectors to be the salvation and solution to the healthcare crisis in America." As a registered 501(c)3 non-profit organization, the American Academy of Anti-Aging Medicine (A4M) is the only non-profit, non-commercial, medical society in the world devoted to eradicating the degenerative diseases of aging. Since its inception seven years ago, the A4M has been the first and only scientific nonprofit medical society to have forecast the deliverance of human lifespans in excess of 100 years. The 10,000 physician, scientist, and health practitioner members of the A4M are forging a profound healthcare paradigm shift that alleviates the mounting social, economic, and medical woes otherwise anticipated to arrive with the rapidly growing volume of an aging population. The A4M sponsors The World Health Network, the Internet's #1 anti-aging portal, at www.worldhealth.net, as part of its mission of promoting advocacy and awareness of this new clinical science. Special complimentary media-only offers are available at www.worldhealth.net/press. View galley proof copies of Dr. Klatz's insightful articles on "Making the Quantum Leap to Human Immortality in the Year 2029" and "Anti-Aging Medicine Delivers the Potential for Human Immortality." At www.worldhealth.net/press, you may request a complimentary subscription to Anti-Aging Medical News (including the Fall 2000 issue) as well as Press Credentials for the foremost annual conference on human longevity -- the Eighth International Congress on Anti-Aging Medicine and Biomedical Technologies taking place 15-17 December 2000 at The Venetian Resort & Hotel in Las Vegas, Nevada, where 4,000 of the world's top scientists and clinicians will be in attendance. ********************************** __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Messenger - Talk while you surf! It's FREE. http://im.yahoo.com/ Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=14722