Category Archives: Gerontology

Much Less Than Half a Chance? Part 2

How to avoid autopsy and long ‘down-time’ (ischemia) better than ~85% of the time! By Mike Darwin Ischemia: The Problem of “Long Down Time”  Almost every cryonicist I’ve ever spoken with envisions his cryopreservation will occur under ideal circumstances. He … Continue reading

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Much Less Than Half a Chance? Part 1

How to avoid autopsy and long ‘down-time’ (ischemia) better than ~85% of the time! By Mike Darwin It’s easy to concentrate on the biggest and most obvious reason that cryonics hasn’t attracted wider acceptance, principally the fact that it doesn’t … Continue reading

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Interventive Gerontology 1.0.02: First, Try to Make it to the Mean: Diet as a life extending tool, Part 3

The Adventist Health Studies Figure 1: Survival of California Adventist men (1980-1988) and other California men (1985) beyond the age of 30 years. The difference between the 2 groups was significant (P,.001). These were non-Hispanic white subjects. Hazards for 1989 … Continue reading

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Interventive Gerontology 1.0.02: First, Try to Make it to the Mean: Diet as a life extending tool, Part 2

Figure 1: Ancel Keys (January 26, 1904 – November 20, 2004) was the American physiologist and epidemiology of cardiovascular disease (CVD). He was responsible for two famous diets: K-rations formulated as balanced meals with a long shelf life for combat … Continue reading

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Interventive Gerontology 1.0.02: First, Try to Make it to the Mean: Diet as a life extending tool, Part 1.

By Mike Darwin First, Try to Make it to the Mean For the past two months I’ve been asking people I encounter in public places[1] the question, “How old do you think you’ll live to be?” The answer I get … Continue reading

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Interventive Gerontology 101.01: The Basics

  Calorie Restriction: First You Starve and Then You Die (Horribly) Figure 1: Supercentenarians in “extreme old age”:  Jeane Calmette, 121; Ingeborg Mestad, 110; Walter Breuning, 114; Marie-Louise Meilleur, 117. There’s a proven technique in animals for reaching the maximum … Continue reading

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The Kurzwild Man in the Night

Ray Kurzweil with a portrait of his father. “It’s as if you took a lot of very good food and some dog excrement and blended it all up so that you can’t possibly figure out what’s good or bad. It’s … Continue reading

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Sexual Senescence in Humans: A Propaganda tool for Cryonics and Life Extension?

By Mike Darwin Sex and Aging It is so common place as to be almost axiomatic. The ‘rake’ or ‘slut’ who, in middle or old age, has become not merely transformed into a moralistic prude, but is completely unable to … Continue reading

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Are You Really Sure You Want to Die? A Response and Commentary on the Inevitability of Aging and Death

By Mike Darwin A short while ago the comment appeared on a medical list serve where I post in response to the article “Going, Going, Gone…” which appeared here on Chronosphere about brain aging and the need to develop effective … Continue reading

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Going, Going, Gone… Part 3

The Urgent Need for a Brain Centered Approach to Geroprotection for Cryonicists WHAT ABOUT THE SINGULARITY AND OUR IMMINENT RESCUE BY ADVANCES IN GERONTOLOGY? Figure 19: Putative technological timeline for the development of technologies now thought to be required to … Continue reading

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