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SNAPSHOT OF BIOLOGICAL TIME SCALES which range from microseconds to weeks. https://lnkd.in/dvbKh8h View in LinkedIn

THE INVENTION OF SEWERS had more impact on life expectancy than anything since. "Public health measures are credited with much of the recent increase in life expectancy. During the 20th century, the average lifespan in the United States increased by more than 30 years, of which 25 years can be attributed to advances in public health." All the heroic advances in medicine amounted to a 5 year increase. http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life_expectancy View in LinkedIn

RISE IN LIFE EXPECTANCY. "Longer lifespans became more common recently in human evolution. This increased longevity is attributed by some writers to cultural adaptations rather than genetic evolution, although some research indicates that during the Neolithic Revolution natural selection favored increased longevity. Nevertheless, all researchers acknowledge the effect of cultural adaptations upon life expectancy." Neolithic life expectancy was 20 years, and in 2010 the world average was 67.2 years. http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life_expectancy View in LinkedIn

EXTENDING HUMAN LIFESPAN."Recent scientific successes in rejuvenation and extending a lifespan of model animals (mice 2.5 times, yeast and nematodes 10 times) and discovery of variety of species (including humans of advanced ages) having negligible senescence give hope to achieve negligible senescence (cancel ageing) for younger humans, reverse ageing or at least significantly delay it." https://lnkd.in/dVg699i View in LinkedIn

CHILDHOOD MORTALITY affects life expectancy numbers. "During the early 1600s in England, life expectancy was only about 35 years, largely because two-thirds of all children died before the age of four. The average life expectancy in Colonial America was under 25 years in the Virginia colony, and in New England about 40% of children failed to reach adulthood. During the Industrial Revolution, the life expectancy of children increased dramatically." http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life_expectancy View in LinkedIn

AGING IS NOT THERMODYNAMICALLY MANDATED. "Entropy (disorder) must increase inevitably within a closed system, but living beings are not closed systems. It is a defining feature of life that it takes in free energy from the environment and unloads its entropy as waste. Living systems can even build themselves up from seed, and routinely repair themselves. There is no thermodynamic necessity for senescence." https://lnkd.in/d9VA6CJ View in LinkedIn

HUMAN LONGEVITY INC. "J. Craig Venter's Human Longevity, Inc. has refueled in the race to build an industry-leading repository of genomes and associated data. The refueling took the form of a $220 million Series B round, which reportedly valued the company at upward of $1.2 billion and attracted the support of long-time HLI backers Celgene ($CELG) and Illumina ($ILMN)." https://lnkd.in/daDP7Qf View in LinkedIn

GOOGLE ANTI-AGING MOONSHOT. In 2013, Google announced Calico, a new company based in San Francisco that will focus on aging through new technologies, lead by the truly remarkable Arthur D. Levinson. "Announcing this new investment, Larry Page, Google CEO said: “Illness and aging affect all our families. With some longer term, moonshot thinking around healthcare and biotechnology, I believe we can improve millions of lives.” http://googlepress.blogspot.com.es/2013/09/calico-announcement.html?m=1 View in LinkedIn

STREAM OF ANTI-AGING MOVEMENTS. "In 1976, futurists Joel Kurtzman and Philip Gordon wrote No More Dying. The Conquest Of Aging And The Extension Of Human Life. In 1980, Saul Kent published The Life Extension Revolution. In 1983, Roy Walford, a life-extensionist and gerontologist, published a popular book called Maximum Lifespan. In 2003, The Immortal Cell: One Scientist's Quest to Solve the Mystery of Human Aging, by Michael D. West was published." https://lnkd.in/dSjbPFq View in LinkedIn

HUMANS have devised every snake-oil, potion, cream, elixir, serum, pills and similar nonsenses to try and stop the effects of aging, probably from time immemorial. These have given the topic of aging a bad reputation. But the reality is that if you examine nature, there are surprising examples that lead one to believe that aging as humans know it is neither hard-wired nor inevitable in living beings, that is, for some, at least. View in LinkedIn