Mprize and other stuff

At the moment I am talking to a lot of my family and friends about LE. Soon I'll ask if they can contribute anything at all to the mprize. If I manage to get the money, whatever it amounts to, I will be sending it off to the Mprize on christmas. And hopefully I'll also be making a big donation too.

So this Christmas please consider donating to the MPRIZE because CR may only give is 20, 30 or 40+ years extra life. I'm pretty confident that I will make it because I am young enough, but there are many out there who haven't discovered CR yet, or might have only started when they were middle aged. We have a lot of optimistic people that are projecting major advances in technology to allow us to live a long time, but it's not so clear that most of the older generation will ever have a chance in making this biotech revolution if things do not get moving as fast as we would like.

We know that human lifespan can vary by a significant amount, take calment for example, she lived to 122! And that is around 40 years more than the average person lived to when she died in the late 1990's. So we know it is possible to reach this age, and CR gives us the best possible chance of making it to 120 and beyond. There are still many doubters in the scientific community, but wasn't that also true when adult onset CR didn't work in rodents for many years until it was done properly?

We only have theories and mathematical models of why CR won't work in humans, and that's all they are right now. On our side we have overwhelming evidence that CR has a high probability of working for us, just wait until we have long term CRers reaching 50-80 years old and looking young and healthy :) CR anti-aging effects is already becoming apparent in monkeys at UW. The picture published a while ago shows that the CR Rhesus monkey's look years younger and even their health is far better than ad lib monkeys.

We'll see lots of clues of CR's anti aging on humans well before we start reaching 100, when lots of us are looking and feeling unusually young for our age after doing CR for an extended period of time :D