Can we stop getting old - reverse ageing? New aging research into living longer, disease prevention, quality of life, healthy lifestyles, longevity - conference keynote speaker Dr Patrick Dixon

http://www.globalchange.com Science of ageing. How to stop getting old. Medical research into physiology of ageing. How cells get old. Tissue regeneration of heart, muscle, retina, spine, brain and other organs. Repair of tissue damage. Organ regeneration. Cure for blood pressure? New facelift therapy? Humpback whales, Rockfish Project and slow ageing in turtles and parrots. Human impact of anti-aging therapy. Social impact of living longer. Impact on longevity forecasts for life insurance and pensions risk. Cure for deafness and cure for macular degeneration. Patrick Dixon

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[deanmullen10]

When people say reverse ageing does that actually mean you can take an old person and via processes they become young again? or is that not possible? I'm talking about genetic engineering, how could that work if possible?

[pjvdixon]

@deanmullen10 Reverse ageing? Already happening in mice and rats - lower blood pressure and increased skin elasticity on long term basis after 1 month treatment. See Alteon research.

[executableapplet]

When you look into IC (irreducible complexity) systems and Medical science, and begin to understand how the systems of the body depend on on another, that the correct IC concept to keep in mind is that such systems depend on every internal component for continued function. As we get older, our subsystems (eg. organs) begin to fail, which affect other systems which may depend on the failing system - affecting the rest of our bodies.

If there were a way to correct this...we could live forever...!

[pjvdixon]

Yes ageing is a multi-level process. One thing affects another - but in reverse it means that tackling one issue affects many others too.

[Sevilfate]

i heard if you reduce your caloric intake it could increase you life span or reverse the affects of age.

[pjvdixon]

Possible - works in rats and monkeys

[DreamersOfReality]

Ageless individuals would not have to constrain themselves to tasks that take only decades or years, but expand their minds to activities requiring centuries if not millenia of research to complete. Once immortal, it wouldnt matter about the time scale. If you choose to become ageless, you could wait a couple hundred years to have children in order to solve over population issues. We could also expand into the ocean, it does cover seventy five percent of the earth... or even space, open minds

[1NX9]

@midnull

I heard Ta-65 might infact lengthen telomeres.

[1NX9]

@pjvdixon

Agree.

Dont listen to the uninformed nay sayers about caloric restriction. Its been written and well known in scientific literatures for decades.

[1NX9]

@sondano "There is no evidence that calorie restriction ever reveresed aging in any species"

Not true. Obvious you havnt read the literature. Its been well known& studied for decades.

[1NX9]

@happinesson

For you it is.

For others thinking how to live long is a worthy pursuit.

[1NX9]

@deanmullen10

I would also look in "gene therapy".

Scientist may be able to reverse aging by altering your DNA structure.

[happinesson]

Life is too short to think how can we live longer.. Let's think of how can we live a life that's full and the rest will follow..

[wecu4dk]

Pharmanex . 

[DreamersOfReality]

@zephranna01 A good question. It doesnt. Natural environmental instances such as disasters or even murder would still llimit the population.