August 13, 2018
For years, I’ve predicted that Japan would be the first nation to wake up to the seriousness of continually increasing lifespans. The unexpected success of the book, The 100-Year Life—Living and Working in an Age of Longevity, in Japan indicates to me that a tipping point has finally been reached.
August 6, 2018
My biologist son recently brought a cold virus back from Tokyo. Therefore, it was probably inevitable that I’m now recovering from a minor respiratory tract infection (RTI). On the upside, it gave me time to think about what virus-borne diseases are teaching us about curing aging.
July 29, 2018
Because transfer payments to the aged now make up the biggest part of the federal budget, I continually hear from people who fear anti-aging therapeutics will make things worse.
July 23, 2018
Increasingly, my conversations with old friends center on their frustrations with our healthcare system. When I say “old friends,” by the way, I don’t mean that I’ve known them for a long time. I mean they are old.
July 16, 2018
We live in a unique time. In multiple pre-clinical trials, rapamycin has demonstrated the ability to roll back the symptoms of aging. But other anti-aging biotechnologies coming out of labs now will be far more effective.
July 9, 2018
Last week, I put forth the proposition that anti-aging and age-reversal breakthroughs ought to change the way you think about your own healthcare. The simple reason is that there will be a cutoff point in the not-so-distant future.
July 2, 2018
Quite a few readers have sent me emails asking about rapamycin. Specifically, there have been a lot of questions about dosing, so I’m going to address that issue again today.
June 25, 2018
A recent Wall Street Journal article points out that “Americans entering retirement are in worse financial shape than the prior generation, for the first time since Harry Truman was president.”
June 18, 2018
As off-label use of rapamycin spreads, I’m hearing anecdotal reports supporting the theory that the anti-aging effects demonstrated in multiple animal trials also apply to humans. If the benefits are comparable, low-dose rapamycin may add more than a decade to users’ healthspans.
June 11, 2018
Rapa Nui, also known as Easter Island, is a smallish island over 2,100 miles away from the coast of Chile, the closest continental point. It is known mostly for the hundreds of Moai—giant stone statues placed around the island by Polynesian builders—though history will remember it as the source of rapamycin.
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