Category Archives: Longevity

The Longevity Limit: Is This It? Has Human Life Expectancy Peaked?

The Longevity Limit: Is This It? Has Human Life Expectancy Peaked?

Quick Take: A landmark study published in Nature Aging challenges long-held assumptions about humanity’s potential for radical life extension, revealing that life expectancy gains have decelerated markedly across the world’s longest-lived populations. An analysis of three decades of data suggests that, without significant scientific breakthroughs, the maximum predicted life expectancy plateaus around 87 years – 84 for men and 90 for women.

Yet this apparent ceiling might reflect the constraints of traditional medicine rather than human potential itself. While modern medicine has extended the average lifespan, true breakthroughs must target the underlying biology of aging to go further.

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Zuzalu Zelar and Beyond Decentralized Longevity States 101824

Zuzalu, Zelar, and Beyond: Decentralized Longevity States Wage War on Aging, Disease, and Scientific Norms

Deep in the heart of Berlin, a group of visionary scientists, daring entrepreneurs, and forward-thinking investors are coming together for a collaboration of unprecedented potential. Their goal is not to launch a new startup or unveil the latest tech gadget. It’s far more audacious: to make death optional.

Welcome to Zelar City, a six-week pop-up community that’s part scientific conference, part futurist social experiment. From October 5th to November 17th, 2024, this temporary autonomous zone will host some of the world’s leading minds in longevity research, all united by a shared mission to wage war on aging, disease, and the concept of mortality itself.

But Zelar City is just the latest manifestation of a revolution that’s been gaining momentum for years. 

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Frozen For Life: Cryopreservation Raises Bid To Redefine Mortality

Frozen For Life: Cryopreservation’s Rising Bid To Redefine Mortality

Rows of towering stainless steel cryogenic tanks dominate a vast underground chamber, stretching out under harsh fluorescent lights. Inside these dewars, filled with liquid nitrogen, lie numerous patients preserved in a state of suspended animation. 

This isn’t a scene from a science fiction movie; it’s the interior of the European Biostasis Foundation’s first facility in Rafz, Switzerland, where Berlin startup Tomorrow Biostasis stores its long-term care patients.

Once considered the realm of speculative fiction, cryonic preservation is slowly approaching reality. As longevity medicine drives forward biomedical innovation, initiatives to slow, pause, or even prevent mortality are proliferating at an unprecedented rate. In this era of expanding technological possibilities, researchers and entrepreneurs continually push boundaries to actualize what was once thought impossible.

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