Surprise! Aging is not classified as a disease by the US Food and Drug Administration. As a result, it does not have a regulatory process to approve a drug for it. Is that good or bad?
What's really interesting is the RAAD Festival - (Revolution Against Aging and Death). It has the latest longevity strategies and findings from the brightest innovators in the industry. It is about "curing" death, which is considered an unnecessary evil and it is about reversing human aging.
All the details are in this article HERE. In the conference, futurist Ray Kurzweil speaks of the escape velocity philosophy, which claims that, with scientific advancement, your body rejuvenates faster than its disintegrates. That way, you will always just be escaping death’s claws. To get to that point though, he says, stick around to 2050, when he believes science will take a quantum leap. Basically, live long enough to live forever.
Leaving RAAD to the extreme enthusiasts, there is work underway to help you just live "better" during your final chapter. Along the continuum "of hope", there is the study that says to increase the chances of a long life, take up at least 7,000 steps a day or play sports for more than 2.5 hours per week. These studies are about reducing the risk of premature death.
There's a lot more to come on the anti-aging revolution - there's so many of us who are aging. With this huge market, research is increasing. Take the Google-backed research company Calico. It is looking into the anti-aging coenzyme Nicotinaide adenine dinucleotide (NAD+). There's $1.5 billion invested in this study. You can already buy this in supplement form. Take a look HERE. Coming up by the end of this year will be young blood transfusions clinics opening in New York City. On my first read on this subject, these seem to be people who are slightly "whacko", but who am I to judge? Even McMaster University has extensive evidence-based information on aging resources.
So this is quite the topic to research - look at all the titles: there's the official anti-aging revolution, there's anticipating the anti-aging revolution, are you ready for the real anti-aging revolution and powerful anti-aging properties.
These two images are in the working title series "Plaid City".
