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Methuselah Foundation in the US, started in 2001, has the strategic goal : “Making 90 the new 50 by 2030” and in the words of their Co Founder and CEO David Gobel - “We are winning”.1
Imagine a 90 year old you know well, prancing like a 50 year old - seems like science fiction and seems too good to be true!
But we are surely getting there. If we do not get there by 2030, it will be mainly due to regulatory and bureaucratic delays, but we are on the path, and not too far behind either.
So what is getting us there?
Developments in healthcare and disease care: We are witnessing a phenomenal wave of new ideas and solutions in the space of healthcare and disease care - both on the prevention side and treatment side - these include developments in Diagnostics, Preventative medicare, Precision medicine, Surgical interventions, etc. These new age protocols and solutions not only prevent early death, but also enable an increase in our life span every year, by keeping us safe from potential diseases or by allowing non threatening and safe treatments if we encounter any harmful diseases2.
Amalgam of new technologies : The amalgam / confluence of quantum computing, artificial intelligence, machine learning, nanotech, robotics with biochemistry, genetics, biotech is helping us discover gene editing tools (CRISPR Cas9), organ replacement with bioprinting, personalized medicine, stem cell rejuvenation, etc. to resolve human conditions which were considered to be unresolvable till now.
Advances in Age Reversal Tech: Extensive research is giving us a better understanding of how we can age in reverse! We are getting a better understanding of the pathways to ageing, and discovering a positive impact on biological age reversal via biohacks, triggering epigenes, supplements, diets, exercise, lifestyle factors, etc.
Together these technologies and discoveries are helping us avoid premature death, extend life and reverse in age / grow young.
However, the key to success for such moonshots is funding. Let me share the latest developments in the funding space for life extension and age reversal which are going to enable this to happen:
Creation of Vitadao: Crypto meets longevity. Vitadao is a decentralized collective funding early stage longevity research. Started in 2021, it has already secured funding of $ 7 mln from about 650 investors.
SENS Research Foundation receives airdrop from new crypto currency PulseChain of $ 20 mln in 2 days in June 2021!
Longevity Science Foundation: A consortium of biotech founders, clinicians, and leading longevity research institutions announced the setting up of a new Swiss foundation on 30 Sept 2021 - the Longevity Science Foundation. The foundation has committed to distributing more than $1 billion over the next ten years to research, institutions and projects advancing healthy human longevity and extending the healthy human lifespan to more than 120 years.
XPRIZE has announced a new Age reversal XPRIZE global competition, designed to cure aging.
Silicon valley billionaires Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, Larry Page, Larry Ellison, Mark Zuckerberg, Tim Cook, and Peter Thiel are just a few of the super-rich who have taken a keen interest in the fast-emerging field of longevity, according to interviews, books and media reports.
The buzz among Founders of Life Extension projects is that funding has stopped becoming a hurdle and that there is excess money pursuing even the vast number of projects getting started in this space!
With funding in place and an increasing level of interest from billionaires, global thought leaders, Governments, business leaders, researchers, scientists, and the common folk, I am absolutely optimistic of reaching the goal of “Making 90 the new 50 by 2030”.
In fact, moving forward I would like to coin a new goal :
“Making 120 the new 50 by 2050”.
What do you think?
Akkshay Mehta
(Age Reversal Evangelist)
This blog is my effort to inspire you with the latest developments in the space of healthspan, lifespan and age reversal. In simple English! Do share and Stay tuned.
I would love to hear from you. I can be reached at mehtaakkshay@gmail.com
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Methuselah is a patriarch whose life span as recorded in Genesis (5:27) was 969 years; he has survived in legend and tradition as the longest-lived human. Methuselah foundation is named after him and was started by David Gobel and Aubrey de Grey (famously known as the father of the longevity movement).
See my previous blogs on this subject where I have tried to explain these developments in great detail. Most specifically see my blog titled “Its 2084 and …”