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Life Extension with Jerry Emanuelson

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Original event date/time: Friday October 24th, 2008, 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm

Jerry will be talking about his 25+ year experience with life extension treatments, including hormone injections, his longevity doctor, what treatments to ask a doctor for, how to find and guide a doctor, an interesting example of the 'medical priesthood vs. empowered patient' conflict as more healthcare treatments are about prevention/enhancement, getting his DNA scanned with deCODEme and opensourcing his genome on the SNPedia.com, and more.

Abstract:

Jerry says:

I've been an experiment-in-progress in life extension and anti-aging medicine for most of my life. Many advanced techniques in preventive medicine have a good scientific basis, but are seldom used. By the time I was 20, I had decided that it was time to make a real effort to prevent the deterioration of the aging process. I also realized then that I was living in a time when such an effort might really pay off -- and it has.

In 1981, I stepped up my personal life extension to a point that requires regular medical supervision. An important method of life extension is maintaining one's hormone and enzyme levels at what would be normal levels for a healthy person in his twenties. I've been taking things like DHEA, melatonin, deprenyl, testosterone, human growth hormone and pregnenolone long before most people had ever heard of them. (Before I make use of any potentially life-extending substance or technique, I actually read the more important research reports on the subject in legitimate medical journals -- and I get frequent medical testing). It is important to read the research at the source. Medical reporting, like all forms of science reporting in the popular media, is frighteningly awful. Even the practice of medicine, all too often, is not based on scientific evidence.

Anti-aging medicine has finally matured to the point where it is a legitimate medical specialty. Physicians who take a rigorous exam can become board-certified in anti-aging medicine.

My talk will be about the current state of life extension and anti-aging medicine -- and where things are likely to be going in the next year or two.

This is really a pretty broad subject, so I'll probably adjust the subject matter as I go along to match the interests of the people who are in attendance.

This is a past event.

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