The Dublin Longevity Declaration

Aubrey de Grey and Brian Kennedy are prominent scientists in the longevity community who take very different approaches to the problem of human aging. They recently collaborated to write the Dublin Longevity Declaration, now posted online and signed by some of the leading figures in the aging research field, as well as fellow travelers in the longevity industry, founders of biotech companies attempting to implement interventions to treat aging. We live in a world in which the opportunity to produce actual, real, working rejuvenation therapies exists, but too few people believe this to be true. There is too little funding devoted to this goal. Declarations signed by prominent scientists, patient advocates, and biotechnology industry executives are one part of a broad range of advocacy that is still needed if we are to live in a world in which the treatment of aging stands alongside the treatment of cancer as a broadly supported goal. Dublin Longevity Declaration: Consensus Recommendation to Immediately Expand Research on Extending Healthy Human Lifespans For most of our history, even getting to old age was a significant accomplishment - and while centenarians have been around at least since the time of the Greeks, aging was never of major interest to medicine. That has changed. Longevity medicine has entered the mainstream. First, evidence accumulated that lifestyle modifications prevent chronic diseases of aging and extend healthspan, the healthy and highly fu...
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