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Bryan Johnson, 45, doesn’t want to just feel 18 years old. He wants his body to act 18 years old. In an extreme effort—one chronicled in depth by Bloomberg—Johnson has partnered with more than 30 health professionals and spent over $2 million to track his every level of health and wellness, all with …
The cure for aging has long been the Holy Grail of medicine. Emerging technologies, like the gene editing tool CRISPR, have opened the floodgates to what may be possible for the future of medical science. The key to slowing down aging, however, may lie in a simple and age-old technique. For the …
Curing death may require a little help from governmental classifications. Right now, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) believes aging is a natural process. But if the agency changes that distinction and calls aging a disease, then scientists could approach the reversal of aging quite …
The quest to cure death is a rich person’s game. And that doesn’t seem likely to change any time soon, which worries some experts in case humans ever figure out how to achieve immortality. As science continues to push the possibilities of living longer—and living better longer—that science is often …
It sure looks like Jeff Bezos has plans to cheat death. The founder and former CEO of Amazon has reportedly made an investment in the freshly launched Altos Labs, a biotech startup focused on "cellular rejuvenation programming to restore cell health and resilience, with the goal of reversing disease …
On December 9, 2013, 13-year-old Jahi McMath was checked in to Oakland Children’s Hospital in California for a routine tonsillectomy. She had sleep apnea and her parents believed that having her tonsils removed would improve her life, her sleep, and her relationships with her classmates. Each year, …
Fifteen years ago, scientists made a stirring discovery when they demonstrated that they could reverse the process of aging in cells. By activating a set of four factors in the DNA, they reset the cell’s clock to zero, reverting adult cells to their embryonic state. The factors were named Yamanaka …
Nick Saraev is 25 years old, far too young, it would seem, to be thinking about death. And yet, since he turned 21, he has taken steps to prevent the infirmities of old age. Every day, he takes 2,000 mg of fish oil and 4,000 IU of vitamin D to help prevent heart disease and other ailments. He …
Loyal, which started in 2019, has about $60 million in backing. The company already has two clinical trials going for canines with the goal of helping dogs live longer, part of a growing world of research aimed at eventually jumping any successful animal-first solutions into humans. Loyal founder …
Even if you somehow manage to make it through decades of old age without a single major health issue—evading cancer, heart disease, diabetes, and so on—scientists say there's a ceiling on how long you can extend your life, throwing cold water on the ambitious Silicon Valley goal to outsmart …
U.S. Special Operations Command (SOCOM), the organization that administers America’s Spec Ops forces, says it will soon start clinical trials of an “anti-aging pill” that could halt some naturally degenerative effects of aging. “We have completed pre-clinical safety and dosing studies in …
Recently, Johnson took to TikTok to share the details of his traumatic NDE—far from the kind of warm, bright-light epiphany you might expect to hear from someone who temporarily ventures into the great beyond. “I wouldn’t wish it on my worst enemy,” Johnson recounts in the viral video. “I don’t care …
