Excluding technologies such as healthy diet and lifestyle.
I refuse to die! Please no responses about how we are destined to die, unless there is solid proof of some sort life extension is impossible.
My guess is that it has occurred, although not enough time has passed for verification.
There is a non-profit organization dedicated to just that purpose (no set limit). It was founded in 1983 (I think) and inspired, and contributed to, by Durk Pearson (triple major - Physics, Biology, Psychology - w/a triple minor at MIT) and Sandy Shaw (double major - Chemistry, Zoology - and a minor at UCLA), co-authors of "Life Extension, a Practical Scientific Approach" (1982). They are/were the only instance of anyone ever beating the FDA (unanimous decision), in a landmark case involving allowing claims for scientifically proven health benefits for supplements. Durk has also done a lot of work for NASA and oil shale research (US Dept. of Energy), among other things. They are the real deal, as evidenced by the extensive research done by them, and others, and thoroughly documented by credits/attributions/references to the actual research papers in their book.
From the Life Extension Foundation site (about us):
"The Life Extension Foundation is a nonprofit organization, whose long-range goal is the extension of the healthy human lifespan. In seeking to control aging, our objective is to develop methods to enable us to live in vigor, health and wellness for an unlimited period of time. The Life Extension Foundation was officially incorporated in 1980, but its founder has been involved in antiaging research since the 1960s.
The Life Extension Foundation is the largest organization dedicated to investigating every method of extending the healthy human life span. When seeking methods to slow aging, The Foundation often uncovers potential anti-aging supplements to treat conditions associated with aging."
Last link is to a list of LEF scientific achievements from the last 30 yrs.
February 26th, 2010 at 6:44 am
Very close. So are technologies that allow indefinite lifespan,, but we will not see those as that would cause a few population issues. However, if we get FTL that would make indefinite lifespans an option.
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February 26th, 2010 at 7:04 am
My guess is that it has occurred, although not enough time has passed for verification.
There is a non-profit organization dedicated to just that purpose (no set limit). It was founded in 1983 (I think) and inspired, and contributed to, by Durk Pearson (triple major - Physics, Biology, Psychology - w/a triple minor at MIT) and Sandy Shaw (double major - Chemistry, Zoology - and a minor at UCLA), co-authors of "Life Extension, a Practical Scientific Approach" (1982). They are/were the only instance of anyone ever beating the FDA (unanimous decision), in a landmark case involving allowing claims for scientifically proven health benefits for supplements. Durk has also done a lot of work for NASA and oil shale research (US Dept. of Energy), among other things. They are the real deal, as evidenced by the extensive research done by them, and others, and thoroughly documented by credits/attributions/references to the actual research papers in their book.
From the Life Extension Foundation site (about us):
"The Life Extension Foundation is a nonprofit organization, whose long-range goal is the extension of the healthy human lifespan. In seeking to control aging, our objective is to develop methods to enable us to live in vigor, health and wellness for an unlimited period of time. The Life Extension Foundation was officially incorporated in 1980, but its founder has been involved in antiaging research since the 1960s.
The Life Extension Foundation is the largest organization dedicated to investigating every method of extending the healthy human life span. When seeking methods to slow aging, The Foundation often uncovers potential anti-aging supplements to treat conditions associated with aging."
Last link is to a list of LEF scientific achievements from the last 30 yrs.
References :
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Durk_Pearson
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sandy_Shaw
http://www.lef.org/
http://www.lef.org/about/lef-scientific-achievements-in-health-and-longevity_01.htm
February 26th, 2010 at 7:20 am
The cells in your body can only live for so long. We are genetically programmed to die at some point and we may have reached that point. Even if extending human lifespan by another 10 years were possible, that doesn’t mean improving one’s quality of life.
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