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Extend life: Join our Mprize 300 group

The Betterhumans community has joined forces with the Methuselah Foundation in their efforts to support new technologies to slow and even reverse the damage of the aging process. Betterhumans has taken a seat among the Methuselah Foundation's Mprize 300, directly funding SENS research. We encourage all members of the community to take action and join us.

For the price of a cup of coffee a day you can join a select group of visionaries standing shoulder to shoulder as the first vanguard in the real war on aging

What is the Methuselah Foundation's Mprize?

The Methuselah Mouse Prize (Mprize), is the premiere effort of the Methuselah Foundation and is being offered to the scientific research team who develops the longest living Mus musculus, the breed of mouse most commonly used in scientific research. Developing interventions which work in mice is a critical precursor to the development of human antiaging techniques, for once it is demonstrated that aging in mice can be effectively delayed or reversed, popular attitudes towards aging as "inevitable" will no longer be possible. When aging in mice is shown to be "treatable," the funding necessary for a full-line assault on the aging process will be made available. This is the true power of the Methuselah Mouse Prize, to demonstrate a proof of principle, and give hope to the world that decline in function and age-related disease are no longer guarantees, for us, or for future generations, if we work together now.

What is SENS?

SENS stands for Strategies for Engineered Negligible Senescence. SENS is a detailed plan for curing human aging. SENS is an engineering project, recognising that aging is a medical condition and that medicine is a branch of engineering. Aging is a set of progressive changes in body composition, at the molecular and cellular level, which are side-effects of essential metabolic processes. Many of these changes are eventually bad for us—they are an accumulation of damage, which becomes pathogenic above a certain threshold of abundance. An ancillary effort of the Methuselah Foundation's Mprize is direct SENS research.

Who are the 300?

Modeled after the 300 Spartan warriors from the battle of Thermopylae, the 300 are a special group who, as individuals or organizations, have pledged to support this research with $1,000 a year for the next 25 years.

Why contribute to the Betterhumans 300 group seat?

This $25,000 pledge is significant. By acting as a group, we will be able to contribute meaningfully to important scientific research, without placing a large financial strain on any one individual member. Also, Peter Thiel will match 50% of all donations to SENS research up to 3 million dollars! You can make a difference by making a small donation. We can make a bigger difference by pooling our efforts. Join us today and enjoy a longer, healthier life tomorrow,

Published Monday, November 05, 2007 12:00 PM by George

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Stephen Scalese wrote on December 23, 2007 10:52 AM

Radical life extensionists are missing a vital piece of the aging puzzle which will negate any attempt in using any biogenetic means for extending life. That vital piece is the subconscious mind which has been programmed thru many eons of time to view aging and death as not only natural but necessary for the survival of the species. Those programs will sabotage any attempts to radiacally extend life. The subconscious makes our major decisions and, like Hal, will do what it has been programmed to think is right. Before RLE can succeed, and it can, our subconscious computer must be reprogrammed, and it can be. As her psychotherapist, I assisted a woman to heal herself of terminal illness that was initiated by her subconsicous to punish her for an imagined moral transgression. (See, The Whisper In Your Heart: Listening to Your Soul's Voice, AuthorHouse, 03/2007.) Our subconscious is incredibily powerful and will assist or destroy progress in our lives depending on its conditioning.

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Canada's leading futurist, activist and award winning blogger, George has written and spoken extensively about the impacts of cutting-edge science and technology. He is the Director of Operations for Commune Media, an advertising and marketing firm that specializes in marketing science. George has more than 10 years' experience in media, arts and communications. With relationships forged across several continents, he has managed international accounts for leading brands. In addition to his work with Commune, George is currently serves on the Board of Directors for the Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies. He is the co-founder and president of the Toronto Transhumanist Association and has served on the Board of Directors for the World Transhumanist Association. George has been interviewed by such publications as The Guardian, the BBC, Radio Free Europe, and Beliefnet. He made an appearance on the CBC's The Hour and has been profiled in NOW and This Magazine.
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