{"id":182280,"date":"2024-02-08T13:24:06","date_gmt":"2024-02-08T19:24:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/02\/21-best-longevity-experts-and-influencers-on-twitter-x"},"modified":"2024-02-08T13:24:06","modified_gmt":"2024-02-08T19:24:06","slug":"21-best-longevity-experts-and-influencers-on-twitter-x","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/02\/21-best-longevity-experts-and-influencers-on-twitter-x","title":{"rendered":"21 Best Longevity Experts and Influencers on Twitter\/X"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We\u2019ve updated our list of the best longevity experts on Twitter\/X and added 8 new accounts, including Dr. Morgan Levine, Dr. Brad Stanfield, and the research journal Nature Aging!<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Best known for his popular longevity <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@DrBradStanfield\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">YouTube channel<\/a>, Stanfield is a medical doctor with an interest in longevity science. Like some other folks on this list of longevity influencers, Stanfield can be a bit iconoclastic, challenging orthodoxy on things like resveratrol and fisetin.<\/p>\n<p>Just like in his well-sourced videos, Stanfield\u2019s Twitter feed is heavy with links to research papers and studies on longevity-related topics, from recent mouse studies out of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nia.nih.gov\/research\/dab\/interventions-testing-program-itp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Interventions Testing Program<\/a>, to threads on diet based on new trials. The downside is in his Twitter feed you don\u2019t get to hear that sweet Kiwi accent you get from his videos.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Followers:<\/strong> 24,000<\/p>\n<p>Founder and CEO of AI drug discovery Insilico Medicine (which has raised over $400 million under his leadership), Alex Zhavoronkov seems to be everywhere in longevity circles. From serving on the board of Peter Diamandis\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.xprize.org\/about\/people\/alex-zhavoronkov-phd\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">X-Prize Foundation<\/a> (which recently announced its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.xprize.org\/prizes\/healthspan\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">longevity X-Prize<\/a>), to founding biological age testing company <a href=\"https:\/\/deeplongevity.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Deep Longevity<\/a>, to somehow having the time to publish <a href=\"https:\/\/scholar.google.com\/citations?user=8Icccp0AAAAJ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">over 170 peer-reviewed studies<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We\u2019ve updated our list of the best longevity experts on Twitter\/X and added 8 new accounts, including Dr. Morgan Levine, Dr. Brad Stanfield, and the research journal Nature Aging! Best known for his popular longevity YouTube channel, Stanfield is a medical doctor with an interest in longevity science. Like some other folks on this list [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":610,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,269,2020,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-182280","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-life-extension","category-peter-diamandis","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182280","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/610"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=182280"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182280\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}