HealthSpan: 120 and Beyond
a life well lived, a life worth living.
Extending health span is the journey, negligible senescence and enjoying life along the way is the quest. So make a list of all the things you want to do. Click HERE.
Enjoyable living beyond 120 is afloat on a rising tide of research bent on repairing the damage that builds up in our bodies during our life time. This enjoyable journey is made possible by pharmacological longevity research, by examining the roots of aging in our DNA, by reducing frailty and disability, by minimizing age-related disease risks and by combining this building body of knowledge with the proactive practice of taking care of what we have along the way.
In September 2013 Google announced the creation of Calico, short for the California Life Company. Its mission is to reverse engineer the biology that controls lifespan and “devise interventions that enable people to lead longer and healthier lives”.
Here are links to 5 research institutes paving the way.
1. Google Calico
2 The Ellison Medical Foundation,
3. The Paul F Glenn Foundation for Medical Research
4. The Buck Institute for Research on Ageing
At the cellular level, the molecular phenotypes of aging are being characterized.
What if neuro precursor cells could be injected directly into the human brain? Would these cells now do what they did in our earliest embryonic development? Would they migrate to their proper place in the brain? Would these new cells effectively replace older, less efficient brain cells that contribute to neurodegeneration? Could this be the breakthrough enabling people to continue to get smarter as we get older?
Have a relative who has lived beyond 90 or 100? How inheritable is longevity? Calico researcher Graham Ruby answers this question. 7% Click HERE for details. He concluded that heritability of lifespan appears to be much lower than previously reported -- as low as seven percent.
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