Strategies for Engineered Negligible Senescence (SENS) is a daring plan to extend human lifespans to at least 5000 years. Among the supporters of SENS are British and American scientists all over the world doing cutting-edge biomedical, genetic, and stem cell research to stop and reverse aging by fixing the damage to cells caused by oxidation. The article explains SENS and how natural aging takes place, and shows how a healthy diet, regular exercise, and stress management can help you live longer, if not forever. A good introduction to the latest scientific studies on aging and longevity research.
5000 Years Young?
Forget space travel, human cloning, and cheap computers.
Scientific discoveries in the next ten to fifteen years to stop and reverse
aging will result in super-long life spans. Even as you read, debates are raging
on topics ranging from whether it is good for humans to live that long to how
one hundred billion people can survive in the universe.
The present controversy on stem cell research is just the tip of the
iceberg.
Should the scientists succeed, humans can stay young, healthy, and alive for
as long as 5,000 years, maybe even forever.
Just imagine being born 500 years before the great pyramids of Egypt.
Moses reached the Promised Land when you were 1,500 years old. Alexander the
Great conquered Asia as you turned 2,500. And a few
years short of your 4,800th birthday, George Washington became president of a
new nation, the United States of America.
5,000 years is a very, very long time. But does it make sense at all?