Category: Learn about longevity

How to die young at a very old age

A delightful introduction to healthy aging by Prof. Nir Barzilai. Watch this!

Aging is a common risk factor for many diseases, including cancer, diabetes, Alzheimer’s, and heart disease. Rather than treating each disease separately, the most practical approach is to delay aging altogether. Learn about our efforts to help everyone die young at a very old age.

Nir is a Professor of Medicine and Genetics at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine and Deputy Scientific Director at the American Federation for Aging Research. He has pioneered breakthrough research on the biology of aging.

Approaching the Second Half: The Latest Research on Longevity and Aging

What choices can help us live long, productive lives? Will science someday identify ways to prevent aging altogether? Hear from genetics professor Anne Brunet, PhD, about how exciting new genetics research could eventually lead to ways of slowing or perhaps even reversing human aging.

Dr. Brunet’s talk was part of the 2015 Community Health Matters Day at Stanford. http://healthmatters.stanford.edu/

Get your body to heal itself

Using the basic principles in regenerative medicine , scaffolds, stem cells and growth factors, in this TEDxIUM talk, Dr Galea shows how our bodies can be used to produce its own medication in healing common sport medicine related injuries.

Dr. Anthony Galea is a renowned sports medicine doctor. He is the Founder and Medical Director of the Institute of Sports Medicine Health & Wellness Center, an internationally recognized sports medicine clinic in Toronto. He has lectured at the University of Toronto and internationally. Dr. Galea has been a sports medicine doctor at the Olympics, team physician for the Toronto Argonauts and a sports medicine doctor and consultant for numerous high profile athletes such as Tie Domi, Jamal Lewis, Alex Rodriguez and Tiger Woods. He is listed as being among the top 2% of sports physicians in the world.

Study: Metformin as a Tool to Target Aging

 

Over the past decades, remarkable progress has occurred in the science of aging in model organisms. Studies have demonstrated that genetic pathways modulate healthy lifespan in diverse species across great evolutionary distance and established that aging-related pathways constitute a target for intervention (Barzilai et al., 2012, Longo et al., 2015). Lifespan has been verifiably modulated by genetic, pharmacologic, and dietary interventions in multiple model systems.

Interventions that target aging pathways are capable of dramatically extending lifespan and, most importantly, health span, the period of life during which an individual is fully functional and free of chronic illness. Continue reading “Study: Metformin as a Tool to Target Aging”

Davos 2016 – What If: You Are Still Alive in 2100?

Join an in-depth discussion that explores the possible, plausible and probable impacts of significantly extended lifespans.

From reversing the effects of ageing on the brain and editing genetic diseases to artificial intelligence and downloading thoughts and memories, scientists are pushing the boundaries of the human lifespan. What would be the impact on life, love and work if you could live to 150 (or forever)?

  • Elizabeth Blackburn, Professor, University of California, San Francisco, USA.
  • Thomas DeRosa, Chief Executive Officer, Welltower, USA.
  • Lynda Gratton, Professor of Management Practice, London Business School, United Kingdom.
  • Derek Yach, Chief Health Officer, Vitality, USA.

Moderated by Nancy Gibbs, Managing Editor, Time Magazine, USA.

Slowing down ageing

What is ageing and how do we prevent it? A nice, easy to understand, non-technical introduction about how genetic research can be applied to increase healthy longevity.

João Pedro de Magalhães is a researcher at the University of Liverpool studying aging, longevity and genome biology. His research focuses on understanding the genetic, cellular, and molecular mechanisms of ageing.