Are Wimbledon champions really getting older?
Has this century seen extraordinarily long-lived Wimbledon champions, or are winners over 30 years of age the new normal?
Life Extension Blog Posts
12-Jul-2024
18-Jun-2024
General Election 2024 Longevity Policies
What are the main political parties offering longevity enthusiasts in this year’s UK general election?
23-May-2024
If you stopped ageing today, how long would you live?
Not as long as you might think. For radical life extension we need to reverse ageing.
27-Mar-2024
Measuring the hallmarks of ageing – how can you track the underlying causes of ageing?
What consumer tests are available to check your hallmarks of ageing and how they're impacting your body?
24-Jan-2024
Meet the Omes
The biology of ageing looks at way more than just the genome and microbiome - here's 20 to start with!
06-Dec-2023
Exponential growth in ageing research
How the observation and understanding of smaller and smaller biological units has improved ageing research and medicine
30-Aug-2023
Where were the UK longevity companies and researchers at Dublin summit?
Absolute numbers look good, but for the size and proximity of the venue, it could have done better
24-Aug-2023
Highlights from Longevity Summit Dublin 2023
Key points and slides from the leading longevity conference hosted by Aubrey de Grey
28-Jun-2023
Exponential Increase in Mortality and Diseases
The data and science behind the exponential growth in mortality with age
29-May-2023
Clock Foundation’s GrimAge Biological Age Test Review
Epigenetic age test provides information beyond biological age
13-Mar-2023
Harold Katcher’s E5/Elixir (Young Plasma) Rat Trial Results
Survival curve shows increase in average lifespan, and now Sima has become the longest-lived Sprague Dawley rat
08-Mar-2023
Antioxidants in ageing and health
Reactive oxygen species (ROS) have a positive role in some processes, complicating research, but unlikely that antioxidants slow ageing
13-Feb-2023
Can love defeat death?
Health and life expectancy are affected by love, sex and marriage
23-Nov-2022
Mitochondria, Autophagy and Neurodegenerative diseases: A perspective
Review paper from University of Helsinki looks at the role of mitophagy in ageing
17-Oct-2022
Cryonics Callout Training with Cryonics UK
What’s involved in the 4 stages of a cryonics callout? Standby, cool down, perfusion and transportation.
22-Aug-2022
Do telomere length tests really reveal your biological age?
Rate of shortening, shape and method of testing are all important factors
12-Aug-2022
Arise Sir-Tuin: Why sirtuins are the knights battling ageing
The what, where and how sirtuins work at the cellular level to impact ageing
01-Jul-2022
GlycanAge Biological Age Test Review
What can your glycome tell you about your true age?
26-Jan-2022
TruDiagnostic TruAge Biological Age Test Review
Adrian tries out this home epigenetic test and is impressed with the level of detail in the reports
14-Jun-2021
TruAge (TruMe) Biological Age Test Review
How does the cheapest epigenetic age test on the market compare?
14-May-2021
Carbiotix Gut Health Test Review
Discover who is winning the battle between your good and bad bacteria
14-Jan-2021
How To Boost Your Immune System
Help your body to help yourself with these easy tips on improving your immune system
10-Sep-2020
Highlights of Ending Age-Related Diseases 2020
Key points from 20 presentations from world-leading researchers
16-Jul-2020
Genflow Seeks Investors for Novel SIRT6 DNA Repair Anti-Ageing Therapy
Great to see a startup willing to explicitly state they are treating ageing itself as a disease
21-May-2020
Age Reversal in Mammals – Has This Now Been Achieved?
Biological age and biomarkers improved to that of rats half their age
03-Feb-2020
Ambrosia Plasma relaunches - announces improvement in key ageing biomarkers
The Club interviews Jesse Karmazin, CEO, to find out more about the trial, the FDA warning, and the relaunch
20-Jan-2020
Ad Vitam Review (TV series)
This intriguing French thriller received little attention in the UK, but is well worth a watch
16-Dec-2019
Top 5 life extension books of 2019
What do you buy for someone who wants to live forever?
28-Aug-2019
Skin-deep anti-ageing with collagen treatments
A look at different types of collagen treatments such as injections, micro-needling, supplements, and creams
19-Mar-2019
The Meaning of Life Extension (infographic)
Diagram to explain the terminology used when discussing life extension - reproduced from the Live Forever Manual
12-Mar-2019
Stanford University optimistic about human rejuvenation
Summary of “Turning back time with emerging rejuvenation Strategies” published in Nature Cell Biology
04-Jan-2019
Suicide Club by Rachel Heng - Book Review
In the book, the vision of biological immortality has become reality, but has not yet fully arrived
24-May-2018
Empire State of Mind (and Body)
manipulation over the Opportunities opened up with human genetic engineering need to be regulated global to avoid exploitation
19-Apr-2018
Inequality and Threat
A look at the risk of inequality between rich and poor being polarised to extreme
14-Sep-2017
Aging Biomarkers - Chronological v Biological Age
Infographic showing the main physiological and functional biomarkers - and what makes a good ageing biomarker
17-Nov-2016
They don’t want you to hear about the end of ageing
Many advertisers refused to take my money to promote the Live Forever Manual - raising awareness is an uphill battle!
16-Feb-2016
A coffee a day keeps the grim reaper away
Relief for the many people who think their coffee habit is a guilty pleasure
09-Feb-2016
New UK Alcohol Guidelines - Are you feeling lucky?
Just the one won't kill me... well, it might, as there is no safe level for drinking alcohol
09-Sep-2015
Under 44? Get ready to live forever!
A look at the latest UK life expectancy at 65 statistics - annual increase has been growing since 1960
07-May-2015
Air pollution - a significant killer
Long-term exposure to PM2.5 and other air pollution can knock 12 years off your life
22-Apr-2015
Living Forever - an absolutely abhorrent aberration?
Feedback from a conversation with a totally normal friend (not a deathist)
03-Nov-2014
NICE will have to approve all one-off interventions as life expectancy increases
What to do when quality-adjusted life years could mean many, many years?
29-Oct-2014
Why I've just voted for DMI in the Nokia Sensing XCHALLENGE
Adrian reviews a range of finalists trying to track cancer, blood oxygenation, retinal scans, and cardiac health
21-Oct-2014
Classic exponential growth in age distribution of older UK citizens
1 in 50 people are over 85 today - that's 20x the percentage who reached that age in 1881
30-Jan-2014
Perfect storm for gene therapy?
Genome editing combined with stem cell generation could produce life extending therapies when boosted with big data
18-Jun-2013
Six of the best from Ray's newsletter
Including nanoparticles for targeted drug delivery, nanofiber sensors, and personalized nerve cells
11-Jun-2013
Anti-aging industry to drive real life extension technologies
Skincare product R&D budgets exceed the National Institute on Aging's budget - let's get it focussed on real anti-aging science
02-Jun-2013
Repairing damaged hearts - first step to rejuvenation
If you can repair damage from heart attacks, why can't we repair heart damage from ageing?
28-May-2013
Heart muscle aging reversed (in mice)
Using the blood of younger mice to reverse the signs of aging in older mice
22-May-2013
Middle aged? I'll give you a 10% chance of living forever
If you make it to 120, you can then pretty much choose how long you want to live
03-May-2013
National Geographic get it wrong - this baby will live forever
People who are already middle-aged could make it to 120 - by the time today's baby's get that old they'll still be young
