Life Extension Express is now available from Amazon.com. If you want to see how and why aging will be reversible… possibly in your lifetime, go to

 

http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_ss?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=life+extension+express&x=13&y=21.

 

This quick, easy and enjoyable read could ensure your endless youth. Order your copy now.

 

I had an interesting week. In conjunction with Life Extension Foundation (LEF) and Greta Blackburn, we played host to many of the Emmy award actors, actresses and other entertainment industry personalities. It was a pre-Emmy Award event where celebrities go to try out your “stuff” and to hype the Emmys.

 

Our stuff included the extensive benefits from memberships in LEF as well as the breakthrough Signals skin care line. www.LEF.org/maxlife and www.Signals120.com.

 

It was a fun event from which I learned a few things. First, the celebrity crowd is much younger than I thought. They somehow look older on TV. It’s been years since I watched much television, and now I know another reason why. I thought was simply a waste of time for most shows, and for me, it is. That’s because most of the shows target audiences from teenagers to the thirty-somethings. So the experience made me feel old. Ouch! But it also strengthened my resolve to recapture my youth.

 

The second thing I learned is the young hip Hollywood crowd is not in tune with life extension. In fact, many did not even know what “life extension” means. But once they get to be around thirty that changes. Those over forty were almost unanimously fascinated by what is and what might be available to them.

 

We went to the show to make the entertainment industry more aware of healthy life extension possibilities. Of course, they were almost all interested in beauty enhancements. But they seemed to be more aware of surgical answers then the non-invasive approaches LEF offers. And for the most part, they knew little to nothing about extreme life extension possibilities and technologies.

 

This will soon change. The entertainment industry has more influence than most, and they gravitate toward anything that could make them younger or appear younger. That’s why we were there. By educating only that core group, we can leverage our way to much wider audiences. That in turn legitimizes an industry that many perceive as one that is top heavy with quacks selling their snake oils to a desperate crowd. Once they understand what works and what doesn’t, and once they understand that science-based age reversal may no longer be an impossible dream for them, it will no longer be an uphill battle getting them to support the research.

 

Life Extension Express clearly explains the concept and was written to change the way most people think about the inevitability of aging and decline. Get your copy now at

 

http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_ss?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=life+extension+express&x=13&y=21.

Life Extension Express is now available from Amazon.com. If you want to see how and why aging will be reversible… possibly in your lifetime, go to

 

http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_ss?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=life+extension+express&x=13&y=21.

 

This quick, easy and enjoyable read could ensure your endless youth. Order your copy now.

 

I had an interesting week. In conjunction with Life Extension Foundation (LEF) and Greta Blackburn, we played host to many of the Emmy award actors, actresses and other entertainment industry personalities. It was a pre-Emmy Award event where celebrities go to try out your “stuff” and to hype the Emmys.

 

Our stuff included the extensive benefits from memberships in LEF as well as the breakthrough Signals skin care line. www.LEF.org/maxlife and www.Signals120.com.

 

It was a fun event from which I learned a few things. First, the celebrity crowd is much younger than I thought. They somehow look older on TV. It’s been years since I watched much television, and now I know another reason why. I thought was simply a waste of time for most shows, and for me, it is. That’s because most of the shows target audiences from teenagers to the thirty-somethings. So the experience made me feel old. Ouch! But it also strengthened my resolve to recapture my youth.

 

The second thing I learned is the young hip Hollywood crowd is not in tune with life extension. In fact, many did not even know what “life extension” means. But once they get to be around thirty that changes. Those over forty were almost unanimously fascinated by what is and what might be available to them.

 

We went to the show to make the entertainment industry more aware of healthy life extension possibilities. Of course, they were almost all interested in beauty enhancements. But they seemed to be more aware of surgical answers then the non-invasive approaches LEF offers. And for the most part, they knew little to nothing about extreme life extension possibilities and technologies.

 

This will soon change. The entertainment industry has more influence than most, and they gravitate toward anything that could make them younger or appear younger. That’s why we were there. By educating only that core group, we can leverage our way to much wider audiences. That in turn legitimizes an industry that many perceive as one that is top heavy with quacks selling their snake oils to a desperate crowd. Once they understand what works and what doesn’t, and once they understand that science-based age reversal may no longer be an impossible dream for them, it will no longer be an uphill battle getting them to support the research.

 

Life Extension Express clearly explains the concept and was written to change the way most people think about the inevitability of aging and decline. Get your copy now at

 

http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_ss?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=life+extension+express&x=13&y=21.

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When I initially propose the concept of extreme life extension, I'm often met with a knee-jerk reaction which goes something like this:

 

"What will we do with all the people?"

 

It's a logical ages-old question actually. But like most "obvious" flawed arguments, it's easily disproven once you dig deep. So let's go deep and see what we find:

 

Amazingly enough, when you factor out immigration, industrialized countries are actually seeing population declines rather than increases. And according to world renowned economist Julian Simon, our current resources and technologies (without considering those that are undeveloped) could support 6 billion more people. Misallocation of those resources and technologies, usually due to bureaucratic bottlenecks and political greed and ineptitude, are the culprits.

 

Since the Industrial Revolution, alarmists screamed doom and gloom about overcrowding and limited resources (backed by their "statistics"). However, the opposite has happened. The population increased by 740% since then, and standards of living have soared. It's not so much a question of resources as it is one of education, individual productivity and distribution--social problems, not life-extension problems. As long as people produce more than they consume, it's impossible to run out of resources.

 

Common sense and intuition say there should be a demographic catastrophe, if people were actually immortal and continued to reproduce. But what would the science (mathematics) say? Recently, Drs. Leonid and Natalia Gavrilov answered that question with a study sponsored by the SENS/Methuselah Foundation.

 

They proved it is possible to have sustainable population dynamics in a future hypothetical non-aging society.

 

They proved that (even) immortality, the joy of parenting and a sustainable population size are not mutually exclusive.

 

This is because a population of immortal reproducing organisms will grow indefinitely in time, but not necessarily indefinitely in size.

 

Many developed countries (like the studied Sweden) face dramatic decline in native-born population in the future and also risk losing their cultural identity due to massive immigration. Therefore, extension of healthy lifespan in these countries may in fact prevent, rather than create a demographic catastrophe.

 

The Gavrilovs painted five scenarios:

 

1. Negligible senescence where all anti-aging interventions start at age 60 years with 30-year time lag. Even in the case of defeating aging (no aging after 60 years) the natural population growth is relatively small (about 20% increase over 70 years).

 

1. Negligible senescence for a part of population (10%). What if only a small fraction of the population accepts anti-aging interventions. The population declines.

 

1. Negligible senescence for a part of population (10%) with growing acceptance (1 percent added to negligible senescence group each year), and the last remaining five percent of population refuse to apply these technologies in any circumstances. The Population still declines, but only slightly

 

1. Rejuvenation. Mortality declines after age 60 years until the levels observed at age 10 are reached; mortality remains constant thereafter. In this case, population would increase about 20% over 70 years. How about when rejuvenation starts at age 40 instead of age 60? Now we see a manageable 40% increase over 70 years.

 

1. And finally a more modest scenario where aging slows down still results in population declines.

 

A general conclusion of this study is that population changes are surprisingly small and slow in their response to dramatic life extension. Even in the case of the most radical life extension scenario, population growth could be relatively slow and may not necessarily lead to overpopulation. Therefore, the real concerns should be placed not on the threat of overpopulation, but rather on such potential obstacles to a successful biomedical war on aging, such as scientific, organizational and financial limitations.

 

Thank you Leonid and Natalie.

 

If you'd like to see details of their study, go to http://longevity-science.org/present.html.

 

The longer we keep ourselves alive, the more brainpower we have to see real and imagined problems through. Just as technology extends lives, it makes life more livable for larger populations. Telling people they should die to make room for others is an idiotic solution to any problem.

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In some ways, it’s the most important chapter in the book. It sets the foundation for the first six steps that could buy you enough healthy years to live long enough to take advantage of tomorrow’s extreme life extending technologies. That’s why it encourages me to see corroborating articles and opinions from medical experts.

 

Listen, I really want this for you. I’m absolutely convinced some people who would have otherwise perished, will see the day when scientific breakthroughs give them open-ended youth, due to the information in Life Extension Express. But some isn’t enough. I want it for you. I want it for those you love and for those you don’t know. I want it for everyone and will be thrilled when thousands and then millions benefit.

 

You can be one of them, especially if you get your head into the longevity game. Your body will follow.

 

The following information was posted on www.eurekalert.org Longevity and Age Management, Aging, Cardio-Vascular, Longevity.

 

Past studies conducted on siblings and offspring of centenarians have clearly demonstrated that longevity runs in strong families. In fact, studies have shown distinctly lower prevalence rates and delayed onset of several diseases, including cardiovascular disease, hypertension and diabetes. Because personality traits have been shown to have hereditary components, researchers from Boston University School of Medicine's New England Centenarian Study "hypothesized" that certain personality characteristics could be critical to the healthy aging of the offspring of centenarians.

 

Collaborating with scientists from the National Institute on Aging, the researchers tested their hypothesis using the NEO-Five-Factor Inventory questionnaire to measure the personality traits of 125 women and 121 men with an average age of 75. None of the participants were related, and each was the offspring of a centenarian. The questionnaire scored five key personality characteristics: neuroticism, extraversion, openness, agreeableness, and conscientiousness.

 

Researchers found that both male and female participants "scored in the low range of published norms for neuroticism and in the high range for extraversion." The women also scored on the high side for agreeableness. Both the men and women participants scored within the normal range for conscientiousness and openness, and the men scored within normal range for agreeableness. The findings were published on line in the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society.

 

"Interestingly, whereas men and women generally differ substantially in their personality characteristics, the male and female offspring tended to be similar, which speaks to the importance of these traits, irrespective of gender, for health aging and longevity," says Dr. Thomas Perls, MPH, Director of the New England Centenarian Study. "For example, people who are lower in neuroticism are able to manage or regulate stressful situations more effectively than those with higher neuroticism levels. Similarly, high extraversion levels have been associated with establishing friendships and looking after yourself," he says. And he adds "these findings suggest that personality is an important characteristic to include in studies that assess genetic and environmental determinants of longevity."

In a previous blog, I mentioned Ray Kurzweil would be one of the most influential persons as to when extreme life extension arrives. As a result, he could be responsible for helping rescue millions from premature suffering and death. Ray doesn’t do aging research. He is an inventor and a thinking machine. In fact, he is described as “the ultimate thinking machine” by Forbes and “the restless genius” by the Wall Street Journal.

 

Inc. magazine ranked him #8 among entrepreneurs in the United States, calling him the “rightful heir to Thomas Edison,” and PBS included Ray as one of 16 “revolutionaries who made America”. Bill Gates called him the most accurate predictor of future of technologies.   

 

An independent, feature-length documentary was made about Kurzweil, his life, and his ideas called Transcendent Man. It recently premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival. Transcendent Man documents Ray's quest to reveal mankind's ultimate destiny and explores many of the ideas found in his New York Times bestselling book, The Singularity is Near. He movie includes his concept of exponential growth, radical life expansion, and how we will transcend our biology.

 

I have known and respected Ray for a number of years. The reason I say he is integral to developing extreme life extension in our lifetimes is his Law of Accelerating Returns. Ray and his ten person research team compiled thousands of pages of documents to predict the future of technology by carefully applying the concept of exponential growth. He has been uncanningly accurate in the past.

 

Essentially, the technology we use to solve challenges such as aging and disease doubles in power every year and will continue to double even quicker as time passes. That means the incredibly sophisticated tools we use today will be over 1000 times more powerful in only 10 years and a billion times more powerful in 25 years.

 

So isn’t that destined to happen anyway? Sure. But Ray brings awareness to the concept and teaches the world that age reversal is possible in your lifetimes. That in turn motivates people like me to write about it and to encourage investments and donations to launch the research and finish it while you are still alive. It encourages students to enter the field, and it lights fires under the whole industry.

 

Once Transcendent Man gets distributed, it will add even more fuel to the fire. Moving research up by just one year could rescue up to 37 million dying people.

 

I had the good fortune to attend a private viewing last Thursday evening. When you see Transcendent Man, you will then understand the implications it could have on your health and longevity.

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On June 24^th and 25^th, 2000, Maximum Life Foundation sponsored its first international anti-aging scientific conference in Manhattan Beach, California.

 

Its purpose was to brainstorm ideas that could lead to breakthroughs in extreme life extension medicine. It held conferences the next two years and worked with the dozen participants and other scientists since to develop a scientific roadmap to reverse the aging process. This all-out assault on aging was dubbed the “Manhattan Beach Project”.

 

We now know what needs to be developed to deliver open-ended youth to you and to your loved ones. And we know how to eventually rescue many of the 100,000 people who die every day from aging. We even have an idea as to what it will cost and about how long it might take once we raise the funds.

 

On November 13^th-15^th, we are going to launch the Manhattan Beach Project.

 

The Project will marshal the best forces of the capitalistic system to not only conquer aging, but it will also lead to full age-reversal. That means, transforming the elderly into twenty-something versions of themselves.

 

Recent breakthroughs tell us this is real—we will reverse the aging process, and researchers have proven the concept with several new scientific approaches.

 

Radically increased lifespans depend mostly on how soon real anti-aging medicine is developed and commercialized.

 

Fourteen of the leading life extension scientists will meet in Manhattan Beach to put the finishing touches on the scientific roadmap to conquer aging. It will not only showcase all the various technologies that need to be developed, but we will fine tune real timelines and real budgets to do it, mostly within the private sector.

 

But that’s just the beginning.

 

The last day of the session will be closed to all except the movers and the shakers of the world.

 

At that private session, successful entrepreneurs; business management experts; ultra wealthy individuals; publicists; marketing gurus; prominent members of the entertainment industry, including athletes; venture capitalists; money managers; politicians and industry leaders will participate in a Longevity Summit master mind session to successfully launch what promises to be one of the most influential events in medical history. We already have a good lineup and are looking for more fabulously successful creative participants. Please let me know right away if you have any candidates. Send an email to info@maxlife.org with your recommendations.

 

I can prove to them that the last nine years of research have shown we are on the verge of either being part of the last generation to suffer and die from aging… or part of the first to enjoy open-ended youth and vitality.

 

Launching this project will mean tomorrow’s age-reversing medical miracles could mature in your lifetime.

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Why do you think so many people eat, drink, sloth and smoke their way to sickness and an early grave? Some say they want to follow healthy lifestyles but keep falling off the wagon. Why do others substitute sustainable healthy habits for deadly habits? Obviously those have a stronger desire for good health and longevity. Building a strong psychological foundation makes good habit forming easier.

 

You’re not born with high self-esteem. Some of us lucked out and were born into families or environments conducive to high self-esteem though. Most of us weren’t so lucky and carried negative baggage into adulthood. By then, we should have attained a measurable amount of volition. At some point in our lives, we are all given the opportunity and the choice to boost self-esteem regardless of our current levels. They can always be higher

 

Strengthening self-esteem is like constructing a house. You establish a firm foundation and build up from there. But it’s not like building a house in the sense that you do it once and live in it for the rest of your life. Growth is a lifelong process, and an enjoyable one at that, once you start reaping your emotional, financial, romantic, spiritual, and health rewards.

 

Dr. Branden wrote THE book on self-esteem, The Six Pillars of Self-Esteem. You are lucky to this information available to you. When you read his book, it could be a life changer for you. He has also written extensively on the subject in various reports.

 

In a timeless 1990 essay, Dr. Branden contributed the following:

 

“To the extent that we are confident in the efficacy of our minds—confident of our ability to think, learn, understand—we tend to persevere when faced with difficult or complex challenges. Persevering, we tend to succeed more often than we fail, thus confirming and reinforcing our sense of efficacy. To the extent that we doubt the efficacy of our minds and lack confidence in our thinking, we tend not to persevere but to give up. Giving up, we fail more often than we succeed, thus confirming and reinforcing our negative self-assessment.

 

“High self-esteem seeks the stimulation of demanding goals; and reaching demanding goals nurtures good self-esteem. Low self-esteem seeks safety of the familiar and undemanding; and confining oneself to the familiar and undemanding serves to weaken self-esteem.

 

“The higher our self-esteem, the better equipped we are to cope with adversity in our careers or in our personal lives; the quicker we are to pick ourselves up after a fall; the more energy we have to begin anew.

The higher our self-esteem, the more ambitious we tend to be, not necessarily in a career or financial sense, but in terms of what we hope to experience in life—emotionally, creatively, spiritually. The lower our self-esteem, the less we aspire to, and the less we are likely to achieve. Either path tends to be self-reinforcing and self-perpetuating.

 

“The higher our self-esteem, the more disposed we are to form nourishing rather than toxic relationships—since like is drawn to like, health is attracted to health, and vitality and expansiveness in others are naturally more appealing to persons of good self-esteem than are emptiness and dependency.

 

“An important principle of human relationships is that we tend to feel most comfortable, most “at home,” with persons whose self-esteem level resembles our own. High self-esteem individuals tend to be drawn to high self-esteem individuals. Medium self-esteem individuals are typically attracted to medium self-esteem individuals. Low self-esteem seeks low self-esteem in others. The most disastrous relationships are those between two persons both of who think poorly of themselves.”

 

I know how filled your days must be. If you’re like me, you have a hard time finding the time to read anything outside your field. So if you don’t have the time to read The Six Pillars of Self-Esteem, I urge you to at least read Dr. Branden’s short essay titled…

 

…What Self-Esteem Is and Is Not

 

Click on the following link now:

 

http://www.nathanielbranden.com/catalog/articles_essays/what_self_esteem.html

 

If you want to read Dr. Branden’s complete 1990 essay, go to this link:

 

http://www.nathanielbranden.com/catalog/articles_essays/what_is_self_esteem?utm_campaign=A%20Personal%20Message%20from%20Nathaniel&utm_content=kekich@maxlife.org&utm_medium=Email&utm_source=VerticalResponse&utm_term=What%20is%20Self-Esteem%3F

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Okay. Let’s say we solve the aging puzzle on time. You won’t get sick. You won’t get old. You’ll be youthful and happy for as long as you want.

 

Or will you?

 

Don’t forget, more time will magnify the good and the not so good. If you enjoy high self-esteem, life will be good. If it’s not as high as you’d like, it might be a drag. That’s true no matter how long we live. So shouldn’t self-esteem be something we might want to pay attention to? Shouldn’t it be the foundation upon which we build our lives?

 

First, exactly what is self-esteem? I have the most sensible answer for you. It comes straight from Dr. Nathaniel Branden, often referred to as “the father of self-esteem”, and a cherished friend.

 

According to Dr. Branden, “Self-esteem is an experience. It is a particular way of experiencing the self. It is a good deal more than a mere feeling. It involves emotional, evaluative, and cognitive components. It also entails certain action dispositions: to move toward life rather than away from it; to move toward consciousness rather than away from it; to treat facts with respect rather than denial; to operate self-responsibly rather than the opposite.

 

“Self-esteem is the disposition to experience oneself as being competent to cope with the basic challenges of life and of being worthy of happiness. It is confidence in the efficacy of our mind, in our ability to think. By extension, it is confidence in our ability to learn, make appropriate choices and decisions, and respond effectively to change. It is also the experience that success, achievement, fulfillment—happiness—are right and natural for us.

 

“Self-esteem is not the euphoria or buoyancy that may be temporarily induced by a drug, a compliment, or a love affair. It is not an illusion or hallucination. Lots of things (some of them quite dubious) can make us “feel good”—for a while. If self-esteem is not grounded in reality, if it is not built over time through the appropriate operation of mind—for example, through operating consciously, self-responsibly, and with integrity--it is not self-esteem.

 

“Rationally, one does not focus on self-esteem per se; one focuses on the practices that support and nurture self-esteem—such as the practice of living consciously, of self-acceptance, of self-responsibility, of self-assertiveness, of purposefulness, and of integrity, as I discuss in The Six Pillars of Self-Esteem.

 

“Self-esteem demands a high reality-orientation; it is grounded in a reverent respect for facts and truth. Excessive and inappropriate self-absorption is symptomatic of poor self-esteem, not high self-esteem. If there is something we are confident about, we do not obsess about it—we get on with living.”

 

Well said Nathaniel.

 

Extreme life extension is as much about the quality of your life as the quantity. Both take work. If you’re willing to invest in your mind as well as your body, then I suggest you devour a copy of The Six Pillars of Self-Esteem.

 

This is such an important issue that I am going to cover more next week. Meanwhile, why not visit some of Dr. Branden’s historical blogs for more information? Start with:

 

http://nathanielbranden.wordpress.com/2008/03/15/answering-misconceptions-about-self-esteem/

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A twenty year study proves calorie restriction works in primates.

 

The ancients knew eating less was a path to health and longevity. Our grandparents’ generation knew it. But we forgot.

 

The average American consumes over 3000 calories a day now. It used to be around 2000. Two thirds of us are overweight. One third is obese. The average female’s waistline ballooned by almost two inches in the last decade. And for the first time in history, we are starting to die earlier! But not all of us.

 

Those who eat less are living longer. Those who practice caloric restriction (CR) rarely have arterial plaque, are almost immune from diabetes, hypertension, early heart disease and a host of other diseases and are resistant to cancer as well. A study of people practicing CR (average age 52) showed their average blood pressure was 103/63, most of their other biomarkers were about as good, and the thickness of their artery walls compared to that of teenagers. Finally, their cardiorespiratory endurance looked 17 years younger than normal.

 

CR means cutting calories by about 30% to about 1400 calories a day while ingesting nutritious food. But as you’ll see, there may be an easier way.

 

CR is the only proven method to extend the maximum life span in mammals. Humans live too long to be good longevity test subjects. However, first results are in from a primate CR study.

 

In a report published in the July 10, 2009 issue of Science, Professor Richard Weindruch and colleagues at the University of Wisconsin reveal that calorie restriction is indeed successful at improving survival and delaying disease in rhesus macaques, whose average life span is 27 years. "We have been able to show that caloric restriction can slow the aging process in a primate species," Dr Weindruch announced.

 

The study divided 76 macaques aged 7 to 14 to receive diets that allowed them to consume as much food as they wanted, or diets which contained 30 percent fewer calories than the unrestricted diets. Thirty of the animals began the diets in 1989 and 46 in 1994.

 

As of this year, 80 percent of the animals given restricted diets are alive, compared to half of the unrestricted animals. Cancer and cardiovascular disease incidence is over 50 percent lower in the calorie restricted animals, and impaired glucose regulation has not been observed. "So far, we've seen the complete prevention of diabetes," Dr Weindruch stated.

 

Additionally, brain volume, motor control, working memory and problem solving abilities appear to be better maintained in the restricted monkeys.

 

"The atrophy or loss of brain mass known to occur with aging is significantly attenuated in several regions of the brain," Dr. Weindruch added. "That's a completely new observation."

 

The current primate study's results are the best indicator to date that calorie restriction might be one means of allowing humans to live longer in better health.

 

Do you need to starve yourself to get some of these benefits? No. Spartan lifestyles cut into the quality of your life. But it’s surprisingly easy to get down to about 1800 calories a day. If everyone did that, we wouldn’t have the healthcare concerns we have today. Most people simply wouldn’t get sick. See chapter Five in Life Extension Express for helpful hints on lowering your caloric intake.

 

If that’s even too tough for you, there’s still hope. Researchers are working on CR mimetics, or drugs and maybe nutritionals that trick your body into thinking it is being caloric restricted. So one day, you may be able to have your cake and eat it too.

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Pretty sobering, isn’t it?

 

Yesterday, about 100,203 lives were snuffed out prematurely. But hardly anyone noticed while the international press clamored to report on the 23 new deaths from the swine flu.

 

That’s because we’re used to losing 100,000 lives a day, equivalent to over 500 jetliners falling from the sky every day, from a cause we can do something about… but don’t.  Aging! That’s 100,000 lives yesterday, the day before, today and tomorrow. Total about 37 million every year.

 

Nanomedicine expert Robert Freitas points out that each of us carries within us a unique and complex universe of knowledge, skills, wisdom, life experience and human relationships. Almost all this rich treasury of information is forever lost when you die. If the vast content of each person's life can be summarized in just one book, then every year, death from aging robs us of 37 million books, worldwide. So each year, we allow a destruction of knowledge equivalent to three Libraries of Congress.

 

Natural death also destroys wealth on a grand scale. According to insurance company estimates, there’s an average value of about $2 million dollars for each human life lost, or an economic loss of about $74 trillion dollars—every year. That's almost equal to the entire tangible wealth of the world.

 

We have accepted the fact that deaths from aging are “natural”, and they are scattered worldwide. So we tend to disregard not only the personal tragedies, but also the treasures society loses in terms of that wisdom, experience, skills and knowledge that disappears with them.

 

But I promise researchers will not only someday be able to stop aging dead in its tracks... but will also be able to reverse the ravages of aging. In other words, they’ll be able to turn old men and women into healthy mature adults who look and feel like 25 year olds. Seeing this happen in your lifetime is my mission.

 

While hundreds of billions of dollars are spent on cancer, heart disease and other research... and even more on treatment, we calculate aging can be solved for a fraction of that amount - if it's spent the right way.

 

And Maximum Life Foundation identified that way. Over the past nine years, we discovered how science can control and even reverse the aging process, maybe within 20 more years. Armed with the law of Accelerating Returns” - we can put our assault on aging, the Manhattan “Beach” Project, into high gear. We know what it takes to succeed. We're determined to avoid being part of the last generation to die from aging... when we can be the first generation to control our destinies.

 

Then we will look for headlines like this:

 

“100,203 Saved by World’s Biggest Medical Breakthrough”

 

Long life!