Life Extension

If the average human lifespan lasted for centuries, what could you accomplish in that time? If most of those years were healthy, active years and you could delay the onset of old age until your hundreds, what would you do with your extra healthy time?

Ask an extension of life researcher. There's a group of extension of life scientists and supporters who are dedicated to letting future generations answer those questions by researching ways in which the degenerative effects of old age can be decelerated and common life-threatening disease of old age can be eliminated.

Extension of life researchers, or biomedical gerontologists, are constantly seeking out ways in which to extend the number of healthy years a human body enjoys, not just ways in which to add additional years onto the life of a human being. However, it is the ultimate goal of extension of life researchers to develop technology through cell restoration and rejuvenation that leads to an average maximum human lifespan of hundreds of years.

Extension of life researchers have already produced verifiable research for one way in which to extend the healthy years a life can sustain. Since the 1930s, extension of life scientists have conducted a special calorie restriction diet experiment on a number of animals. Extension of life in animals such as monkeys, dogs, rodents, cows, and some insects has lasted for exponentially longer periods of time depending on the increased rate of calorie restriction in their diets.

Human extension of life advocates stand behind the calorie restriction diet and have been putting it into practice for the past few decades. By cutting back on the amount of calories consumed-but still eating a healthy amount of food-and supplementing their diet with extra vitamins, minerals, and nutrients, extension of life advocates hope to see the same kind of extension of life success that has been demonstrated in these experiments.

Extension of life researchers continue to search for more lasting ways of extending healthy human years by experimenting with stem cells, molecular repair, and natural and artificial organ transplantation. Already extension of life researchers have been responsible for advancements made in the treatment and prevention of diseases such as stroke, Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, heart disease, cancer, and macular degeneration.

Although the calorie restriction diet's evidence is accepted by most of the greater medical community and likewise the medical community is thankful for the funding and research that extension of life supporters do into the treatment of diseases, many medical professionals doubt the possibility of the extension of life's true aim: to extend the maximum human lifespan to span centuries.

Indeed, even extension of life activists believe that a human life that lasts for hundreds of years is beyond the means of current science and technology. However, the extension of life mantra provides for that fact with cryonics.

One of the greatest practices of extension of life supporters that detracts from their credibility in the medical field is that they commonly arrange for their bodies to be frozen at subzero temperatures shortly after death. They do so in the belief that future extension of life scientists will not only have the technology for centuries-long extension of human life but also the technology of being able to restore cryonically-frozen bodies to life so that current extension of life supporters can benefit from centuries-long life as well.

For more extension of life information, visit the Life Extension Foundation's Web site at lef.org.