{"id":90725,"date":"2019-05-14T22:02:23","date_gmt":"2019-05-15T05:02:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/05\/anti-aging-passion-and-pragmatism-effective-bedfellows-at-last"},"modified":"2019-05-22T17:54:17","modified_gmt":"2019-05-23T00:54:17","slug":"anti-aging-passion-and-pragmatism-effective-bedfellows-at-last","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/05\/anti-aging-passion-and-pragmatism-effective-bedfellows-at-last","title":{"rendered":"Anti-Aging Passion and Pragmatism: Effective Bedfellows at Last"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I am writing this shortly after returning from the third edition of RAADfest, a conference created two years ago by a team led by Jim Strole<\/a>. I go to a lot, I mean a lot, of conferences, not least because outreach is such a big part of my role in our crusade. But I think this is the first time I have chosen to devote an editorial to one. You may wonder what\u2019s so special.<\/p>\n

Well, RAADfest is \u2026 not your typical conference. Its organizers\u2014Strole and his team, most notably his partner Bernadeane\u2014have, for a couple of decades, led a group in Arizona named \u201cPeople Unlimited\u201d, which has acquired a reputation\u2014and, I have to report, a well-deserved one\u2014for, let\u2019s say, placing excessive emphasis on the principle that \u2018\u2018where there\u2019s a will there\u2019s a way\u2019\u2019 in relation to the defeat of aging (Yeah, I can still do classic British understatement when I try). Accordingly, when they first let it be known that they planned to do something bigger, the initial reaction was decidedly mixed. I don\u2019t know how many credentialed biogerontologists declined speaking invitations, but only a few of us accepted\u2014and of those, as I recall, only the perennially fearless Michael Rose was a university professor. I myself, though happy to lend my support to this new initiative as a speaker, was rather more diffident in response to Strole\u2019s entreaties to promote the event through my outreach channels.<\/p>\n

But the doubters were wrong\u2014very wrong. The event was a storming success, in terms of both attendance\u2014Strole had secured significant sponsorship from the Life Extension Foundation under the expectation of a budgetary shortfall but was actually able to give it back, yes you read that correctly\u2014and also content, which, while being necessarily a little light on science given the paucity of scientist speakers, was coherent, rousing, and informative.<\/p>\n

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