Extended Youth -- in CONGRESS! (They need it)

 ONE OF THE HUGE STORIES YOU (ALMOST) CAN'T FIND IN THE NEWS

U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES COMMITTEE ON SCIENCE, SPACE, AND TECHNOLOGY SUBCOMMITTEE ON INVESTIGATIONS AND OVERSIGHT HEARING CHARTER 

The Fountain of Youth? The Quest for Aging Therapies 

Thursday, September 15, 2022 10:00 a.m. EDT – 12:00 p.m. EDT 

2318 Rayburn House Office Building and Online via Zoom


"Fountain of Youth!?" Now, you know as well as I do that this is not your grandfather's House subcommittee meeting.  It's right up there with the recent  UFO-related House committee hearings.



This hearing was really, really good!  Three of the top experts in this "fountain of youth" field testified:

• Dr. Jay Olshansky
"Geroscience has come of age. It is the culmination of decades of research. It is not a theoretical construct – it has been demonstrated in the laboratory that rate of aging can be modified..." 

• Dr. Laura Niedernhofer 
"A Geroscience approach is anticipated to affect the health of the elderly to a greater extent than curing any single disease of old age, including curing Alzheimer's disease or cancer."

• Dr. Steve Horvath        
"We have an opportunity and arguably obligation to leverage recent biomedical breakthroughs to identify longevity interventions that may delay the onset of chronic diseases, and which may revolutionize the field of preventative medicine."

(Check out this threesome's creds:*)

[Here is the official Subcommittee agenda for the meeting with the full written testimony of each.]

This is no longer "Sometime in the future," this is happening NOW.

If you are interested in a longer healthspan, this is an exciting hour.

Your friendly blogger, me, is already trying all the healthspan extenders I can get my hands on, and, hey, I'm still kicking. For instance:

Olde Scooter's healthspan regimen given the nod by these expert witnesses

Daily:

Nicotinamide Riboside 
Pterostilbene   
Trans-resveratrol 

In "Pulses" (once a week):

Quercetin
Fisetin
DHEA
Astaxanthin 
Lion's Mane mushroom  

On this beat for a while, I've been posting since at least 2016. Ahead of my time, I am.

http://seniorjunior.blogspot.com/2018/09/now-watch-these-pharma-stocks-go-up.html

http://seniorjunior.blogspot.com/2018/09/ok-im-riding-this-horse.html

http://seniorjunior.blogspot.com/2018/08/think-folks-are-interested-in-anti-aging.html

http://seniorjunior.blogspot.com/2018/06/addition-to-longevity-formula.html

https://seniorjunior.blogspot.com/2018/06/can-you-buy-some-extra-years.html

http://seniorjunior.blogspot.com/2017/12/more-fountain-of-youth-stuff.html

http://seniorjunior.blogspot.com/2016/08/anti-aging-pills-aplenty.html



ADDENDA

There is a great website on the general topic of Healthspan, dedicated to informing the public about what's happening in geroscience:

List of human trials on Senolytics (ridding the body of senescent cells)

https://scholar.google.com/scholar?as_ylo=2022&q=senolytics+human+trials&hl=en&as_sdt=0,32&as_vis=1

Extended Youth  a book written by Robert Prehoda, published in 1968

*CREDENTIALS OF WITNESSES

• Dr. Jay Olshansky, Professor of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of IllinoisChicago; Research Associate, Center on Aging at the University of Chicago; Chief Scientist at Lapetus Solutions, Inc. • Dr. Laura Niedernhofer (KNEE-durn-ho-fer), Director, Institute on the Biology of Aging and Metabolism; Medical Discovery Team on the Biology of Aging; Professor, Department of Biochemistry, Molecular Biology and Biophysics, University of Minnesota • Dr. Steve Horvath, Principal Investigator, Altos Labs

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