The journey to uncover the fountain of youth

Published: https://thefederal.com/health/2019/05/05/120-is-the-
new-70-the-journey-to-uncovering-the-fountain-of-youth/

The race to buying humans more time to live longer and do much more

The sudden spike in global interest over the field of biotechnology can be
attributed to one thing in particular —the race to extend human lifespan
and make 120 the new 70. With scientists and technologists speeding to
hack the code of life, Excellence Installation Technology is already
providing it’s auxiliary bonus, that which allows you to achieve more and
optimize your potential within the span of a decade.

The 1950s and 60s was marked by the Space Race. With US and Russia
in the run to reach the moon, it seemed like human ingenuity of achieving
impossible feats had reached it peak. But then the 80s came and with it
emerged the age of information technology and, again, humans went on
to create a future that very few foresaw. In the shortest period of time, the
world has become a global village with the advent of the computers and,
subsequently, the Internet.

Now, it looks like we are again in the cusp of change — a game-changer

— but this time, in the field of biotechnology.

Back in 2009, the most-celebrated futurist of our time, Ray Kurweil,

while speaking to biologists and geneticists at a Longevity Summit, said,
“We are very close to the tipping point in human longevity... we are
about fifteen years away from adding more than one year of longevity per
year to remaining life expectancy.” The technologist, who holds the track
record of 88% accuracy for predicting the rise of future technologies,
seems to be once again right.

As Silicon Valley billionaires line up to pour their money into the next
big technological trend – the expansion of the human lifespan — the
bullish rise in the number of biotechnology companies working on this
very project is a good indicator of what is set to define the tone of the
next decade or so.
The 21st century has seen a surge in the average life expectancy across the
globe, with developed nations averaging between 75 to 85 years, and
developing nations with 65 years. In comparison, life expectancy in the
20th century was below 50 years of age. The reason for this increase can
be attributed to the great strides made in medicine, with new drugs able to
combat diseases like tuberculosis, that were once considered fatal, today
medicines and technology is helping people live much longer.

Scientists predicted that by 2050, the average life expectancy would rise
from 85 to 94 years. However, this prediction was made a decade ago,
before the renewed interest in prolonging human life on earth took hold
of the Silicon Valley. Now, it looks like we will surpass this average
within the next decade if all cards are played right.

Leading the way

Adding to the already rapid progress, are people like Dr. Joon Yun, a
physician and hedge fund manager, and Peter Diamandis, the celebrated
serial entrepreneur and founder of the XPRIZE, who have announced
million dollar cash prizes for anyone who could “hack the code of life”.

Statistically speaking, scientists believe that eventually human beings

could to live up to 1,000 years, that is, if science finds a way of keeping
risk of age-related disease well under 0.1%.

Taking the first step forward to achieving this dream is Google. The
company started Calico (California Life Company) in 2013, investing
over a billion dollars on a quest to creating age-defying drugs — in other
words, the fountain of youth. Their mission is to reverse engineer the
biology that controls lifespan and find ways to intervene to enable a
human being to live longer and healthier.

Human Longevity Inc, founded by Peter Diamandis and pioneering

American biologist and technologist Craig Venter, is looking to catalogue
1 million human genome sequences by 2020, including that of
supercentenarians, to find the patterns that make up for a long, healthy
life. Venter believes that this database will become the reference centre
for all other companies working on the same goal.

Aubrey de Grey, a molecular biologist, who has been crusading for two
decades for the world to embark on a quest to eliminate ageing, sees no
reason why human beings shouldn't live to be 1,000. The co-founder of
Sens (Strategies for Engineered Negligible Senescence) Foundation, a
non-profit organization based in the US, believes that physical
deterioration that comes with age could be stopped. The reality is, he
says, that ageing is simply a “medical problem” that science can easily
solve in time.

According to De grey, accepting ageing as unavoidable had been the

biggest hurdle in trying to mobilize more research in this field. Just as a
vintage car can be kept in good condition indefinitely with periodic
preventative maintenance, so there is no reason why, in principle, the
same can’t be true of the human body, thinks de Grey. We are, after all,
biological machines, he says.

Eliminating diseases
Stem cells retrieved from the human placenta are the answer to curing
cancer. These revelations by Dr. Robert Hariri have made him the man of
the hour. The pioneering research by his team at Celgene Cellular
Therapeutics to use stem cells to treat a range of life threatening diseases
not only points to becoming the ground-breaking solution in combating
death and ageing, but also holds the answers to regulate vitality in the
human body.

Dr. Hariri believes that the reality of the coming decade is that drugs that
cure cancer will be readily available just as the ones that cure common
cold.

With much strides being made to combat fatal and ageing diseases,
looking back in time to uncover the secrets of ageing is now a
commercial and global market in itself.

Compressing time itself

Approaching the issue of human lifespan from the opposite end of the
spectrum is the Excellence Installation Technology. Created by
technologist Antano Solar John & Harini Ramachandran, EIT looks at
tapping into the ability of the human brain to become superiorly capable
in a non-intrusive way.

The goal of the technology, the founders say, is to maximize the

productivity of a human being by making figuring out ways to help the
brain unlock its own superior capabilities. Using this new-age method,
the human brain can easily overcome psychological obstacles, which
directly corresponds to the consequences, and the progress and evolution
of the individual. EIT looks to exponentially compress the time it takes to
achieve goals by removing the mental roadblocks that crippling
productivity to help uncover the genius within the individual. Which
means, that one man can become capable of achieving that which would
take over 150 years, within the course of a few decades.

Excellence Installation technology, born from the cradle of Neuro

Linguistic Programming, is still in its nascent stages. It is an evolving
science built from tracking down the interplay between the brain activity
and the corresponding human behaviour.

On a similar front, other pioneering efforts are being made to help re-map
the brain and reset the individual’s trajectory to becoming proactive
individuals. The human brain has become the new frontier for exploration
for both scientists and technologists alike.