Longevity

Tech entrepreneurs and influencers are combining drugs, supplements and experimental treatments in an attempt to slow aging. To date, none of these protocols have been proven to extend the lives of healthy people. Illustration: The News website using AI

Billionaires are trying to “hack” aging – but science has yet to prove that the methods extend life

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Tech entrepreneurs and influencers are trying rapamycin, hormones, ketones, plasma exchange and other substances in an attempt to slow aging. Animal studies provide some promising clues, but in-person trials don’t prove efficacy—and some
Population genetics. Figure: US Institutes of Health NIH

Evolution has not stopped - humans are still developing

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Prof. Atzmon in his laboratory. Source: Courtesy of the University of Haifa.

A genetic mutation was found that contributes to longevity in men

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Source: pixabay.com.

Questions for the future of humanity: Will we defeat aging?

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A fruit fly laboratory that will be launched to the International Space Station

Fruit flies will be sent to the International Space Station

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Liver cells at high magnification. Photo: shutterstock

A sign that you are young

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blood-brain barrier. Illustration: shutterstock

Hacking the way to the brain / Janine Interlandi

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A forest in Croatia by the sea. Photo: shutterstock

Carbon dioxide absorption by European forests? No more

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Testing food plants in the laboratory. Photo: shutterstock

An accidental discovery by a Technion researcher may strengthen the resistance of food plants against drought

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The population of Israel. Illustration: shutterstock

The CBS forecast for 2035 Israel's population will number 11.4 million, but it will age and the rate of natural reproduction will slow down

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The cover of the book "The Guide to the Future" by Dr.Roey Tsezana

The robot that will fix me: nanotechnology in the human body - from Dr.Roey Tsezana's book "The Guide to the Future"

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Vegetables in the market in Crete. From Wikipedia

The myth of antioxidants / Melinda Wenner Moyer

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The chromosomes (the genetic material in the cell), with the telomeres that serve as 'caps' for them on both sides.

Keeping death at bay: the telomere theory. Fifth article in the longevity series

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One of the enzymes from the superoxide dismutase family. The medicine for eternal life, or a deadly poison? Source: Wikipedia.

Longevity, Part 4 When Breathing Kills: Free Radicals and Aging

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Armond Marie LeRoy's book, with a whole chapter on the aging process

Stop Death Chapter 2: The Evolution That Killed Me

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Fred Meyer supermarket.

To stop death - part three: the hunger for life

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Alexander Graham Bell. From Wikipedia

Stopping Death Chapter 1: The Road to Eternal Life: About aging, and the ways to prevent it

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easter island From Wikipedia

A New Path to Longevity / David Stipe

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B cells in the immune system. From Wikipedia

The Technion researchers were able to show that it is possible to reverse the aging process of the immune system in mice

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Telomeres at the ends of chromosomes. From Wikipedia

Researchers have succeeded in reversing the aging process and returning elderly mice to their youth... partially

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A C. elegans worm whose senescence is damaged. Photo: University of Birmingham

The recipe for a long life: the gene that regulates life span, immunity and resistance to stressful situations is found

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Rare supporting cells in the inner ear of mice began to transform into sensory hair cells

The genetic secret to longevity

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Rare supporting cells in the inner ear of mice began to transform into sensory hair cells

The gene that delays aging has been discovered

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Rare supporting cells in the inner ear of mice began to transform into sensory hair cells

Research: Those who eat little will live longer

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Rare supporting cells in the inner ear of mice began to transform into sensory hair cells

Mental stress accelerates aging

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Rare supporting cells in the inner ear of mice began to transform into sensory hair cells

Researchers claim that in a few decades, technology will allow humans to reach an extreme age

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Rare supporting cells in the inner ear of mice began to transform into sensory hair cells

In four years we may live to be 120

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Rare supporting cells in the inner ear of mice began to transform into sensory hair cells

Hypothesis: A protein that protects the body against cancer accelerates the aging process

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Rare supporting cells in the inner ear of mice began to transform into sensory hair cells

British scientists have succeeded in extending life in an organism

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