Longevity – Lifeboat News: The Blog https://lifeboat.com/blog Safeguarding Humanity Thu, 10 Oct 2024 14:24:30 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.1 Bye-bye, blood boys; hello, plasma glow-up https://lifeboat.com/blog/2024/10/bye-bye-blood-boys-hello-plasma-glow-up https://lifeboat.com/blog/2024/10/bye-bye-blood-boys-hello-plasma-glow-up#respond Thu, 10 Oct 2024 14:24:30 +0000 https://lifeboat.com/blog/2024/10/bye-bye-blood-boys-hello-plasma-glow-up

Navigating the frontiers of longevity: therapeutic plasma exchange and its implications.

Therapeutic plasma exchange (TPE) has emerged as a contentious longevity treatment, touted for its potential to rejuvenate the body.


In another effort to live longer, wealthy Silicon Valley-ites are ditching young blood for plasma exchange.

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Implausibility of radical life extension in humans in the twenty-first century https://lifeboat.com/blog/2024/10/implausibility-of-radical-life-extension-in-humans-in-the-twenty-first-century https://lifeboat.com/blog/2024/10/implausibility-of-radical-life-extension-in-humans-in-the-twenty-first-century#respond Mon, 07 Oct 2024 20:24:25 +0000 https://lifeboat.com/blog/2024/10/implausibility-of-radical-life-extension-in-humans-in-the-twenty-first-century

Abstract Over the course of the twentieth century, human life expectancy at birth rose in high-income nations by approximately 30 years, largely driven by advances in public health and medicine.


In the twentieth century, human life expectancy rose dramatically. Based on the past three decades of observed mortality in the eight countries with the longest-lived populations and in Hong Kong and the United States, Olshansky et al. propose that, without medical breakthroughs that slow aging, radical lifespan extension is implausible in this century.

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