X-Message-Number: 24381 Date: Tue, 13 Jul 2004 00:35:30 -0700 From: James Swayze <> Subject: AARP catching on, sort of http://www.aarp.org/bulletin/yourhealth/Articles/a2004-07-07-methuselah.html AARP BULLETIN ONLINE HEALTH REPORT The Methuselah Report Living to be 120 might be attainable, but is it desirable? By Wayne Curtis July-August 2004 [excerpt] "I believe extraordinary longevity is absolutely inevitable," says Donald Louria, a professor at the New Jersey Medical School. "It's not a matter of if we'll have extraordinary longevity, but when.".... [excerpt] Advances in longevity come in two forms. The first is the prevention of diseases including heart disease, cancer, stroke and diabetes that tend to affect older people. Eliminating deaths from these causes would increase the average life span by 10 to 20 years, Louria predicts. "The first to fall will be heart disease and stroke," he says. "It's not going to happen tomorrow, but it is going to happen in this century.".... [excerpt] SECRETS OF AGING When Ponce de Leon thrashed around the swamps of Florida in search of the Fountain of Youth, it turns out, he was in the wrong place. The secrets of aging are actually kept in a sort of complex biologic bank vault outfitted with multiple doors. Safecrackers from various branches of medicine and science have been striving to get in, and the faint sound you hear is that of tumblers clicking into place.... [excerpt] Geneticists are fiddling with one door.... [excerpt] At work on another vault door are nanotechnologists.... [cont.] James -- Membership in order of joining: Cryonics Institute of Michigan http://www.cryonics.org The Immortalist Society http://www.cryonics.org/info.html The Society for Venturism http://www.venturist.org Immortality Institute http://www.imminst.org Methuselah Foundation http://www.methuselahfoundation.org Methuselah Mouse Prize http://www.methuselahmouse.org [Give $$$ for life!] World Transhumanist Assoc. http://www.transhumanism.org/ MY WEBSITE: http://www.davidpascal.com/swayze/ Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=24381