X-Message-Number: 26897
Date: Sun, 28 Aug 2005 09:38:00 -0400
From: Thomas Donaldson <>
Subject: Current antiaging work and cryonics

Hi everyone!

Although some might think so, this message does not intend to denigrate
the work on the Klotho gene or any other treatment which adds a relatively
few years to our lifespan. I put together an entire book describing 
various drugs which increased lifespan by similar amounts, the GUIDE TO
ANTIAGING DRUGS.

However, research into aging hasn't yet worked out a cure for aging.
They've just got a way to hold it off for a while. An outright cure 
would cause the mortality curve of those getting it to take an
exponential shape: exp(-x), while every treatment so far known begins
like an exponential curve, just like those of an untreated person, 
but then a bit later than normal (and even 50% later than normal)
it falls off with the same kind of mortality curve we see today in 
anyone given current standard medical treatments.

This one among several reasons why I think cryonics has advantages
even if you take whatever antiaging drugs you can get. Someday we'll
know enough about aging to actually abolish it, rather than just delaying
it. And whenever you start falling off into death, then if you can be
suspended you're certain to someday reach a time when aging can be
truly abolished, not just delayed.

             Best wishes and long long life to all,

                  Thomas Donaldson

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