What we’re about
Imagine you could live to be 120 years in good health?
The 20th century brought unprecedented prosperity and well-being for many. Average life expectancy saw a dramatic increase doubling globally from 32 to 66 years, settling somewhere around 80 to 90 years in developed nations. Indeed, life expectancies in developed nations are so high now that the rate of aging has become the limiting factor for human health- and lifespan.
Most diseases of the elderly are directly caused by aging and due to “competing age-related risks” for these various diseases the eradication of any one disease would only have surprisingly small benefits. Put in the simplest way, if cancer does not kill you so will cardiovascular disease (Olshansky et al. 2016; Keyfitz 1977). This necessitates a totally new approach to health and longevity provided by modern aging research. We aim to prevent, cure or slow age-related diseases and aging in order to allow everyone to live their life to the fullest extent possible.
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This meetup is for you if you:
- Want to live longer and healthier
- Have questions you want to ask aging experts
- Are interested in the science of aging
- Want to discuss aging biotechs and pharma
- Are a transhumanist, vitalist or immortalist
Schedule: roughly monthly
Organizer:
Kamil Pabis, MSc (the @Aging_Scientist on Twitter and a PhD student in the Brian Kennedy lab at NUS)
Acknowledgments: We thank VitaDAO for supporting this meetup
Further reading:
https://www.vitadao.com/
