Will Suzanne Somers’ Celebrity Status Wake the World Up to Human Age Reversal?

As a Life Extension^® reader, you are aware of methods to delay and reverse certain aspects of biological aging.

You accomplish this through healthy behavior patterns, along with personalized doses of hormones (like DHEA), standardized nutrients, and often proper use of medications (like metformin).

What you do today, however, was virtually unheard of when I incorporated the Life Extension^® group in the 1970s.

Back then, people accepted pathological aging as inevitable. Instead of taking steps to forestall it, they often engaged in unhealthy behaviors that accelerated the onset of degenerative illnesses.

What has transpired over the last five decades is nothing short of a biomedical renaissance.

Instead of waiting for disease to manifest, enlightened individuals nowadays have preventive medical checkups including blood tests so they can initiate corrective actions before a crippling disease strikes.

Suzanne Somers has written a new book titled A New Way to Age.

It reveals information about regenerative interventions that Life Extension^® readers have learned about in recent years.

What makes Suzanne’s book different is that it will be discussed in the mass media, and the scientific details made available to a huge audience.

There is potential for A New Way to Age to be read by enough people so that the public’s perception of human age reversal will evolve from “can it be done?” to “how soon will it happen?”

This article discusses how Suzanne’s book may ignite widespread recognition that rejuvenation of older individuals will soon become part of routine medical practice.

Slowly Reaching Critical Mass

Beginning in 2014, a series of discoveries converged in a way to indicate that aging can be partially reversed.

As regenerative interventions moved from lab animals to small human studies, demonstrations of efficacy spawned significant viewpoint changes.

The realization that older people might grow younger garnered favorable coverage in journals and the general media.

Despite a series of advances, the majority remain ignorant of even basic ways to counteract degenerative aging processes.

Need to Prioritize Human Research

In 2015, the FDA approved the first trial of a drug (metformin) to delay or reverse aging.

Funding ($75 million) was secured in 2019 to initiate a study of elderly people to ascertain what degree of age control might be achieved using this one drug.

Readers of Life Extension^® were informed about metformin back in 1995.

If it continues to take decades to initiate clinical trials for simple treatments like metformin, then most of us will miss the super-longevity boat.

There is thus an urgent need to accelerate the pace of age-reversal research and make it a societal priority!

A New Way to Age

In today’s fragmented media world, Suzanne Somers remains one of the world’s most recognizable celebrities. When she writes a book, she garners extensive news and mainstream media coverage.

The trend towards use of “bioidentical hormone replacement” away from synthetic hormones did not occur because of an overnight change in mainstream medical practice.

It was largely due to Suzanne’s books and media appearances where she passionately advocated for more natural hormone replacement therapies.

Suzanne’s pleas resulted in an avalanche of patients demanding natural hormones from their doctors. As patients educated their doctors, there were improvements in physicians’ prescribing practices that focused on more rational hormone therapies, such as natural progesterone in lieu of dangerous synthetic progestins.

In her latest book, titled A New Way to Age, Suzanne reveals a variety of anti-aging strategies that, up to now, have been limited to a minority of health-conscious individuals such as Life Extension^® readers.

If A New Way to Age garners mass readership, it could ignite a revolutionary approach to human age reversal analogous to the tidal-wave switch to bioidentical hormones that occurred beginning in the late 1990s.

What Happens When We Reach the “Tipping Point”?

Once critical mass about human age reversal is attained, the political, economic, charitable, and scientific dynamics undergo radical transformations.

As society prioritizes healthy lifespan extension, the pace of progress will accelerate, emulating other fields where technical advances transform the seemingly impossible into the routine at an even faster pace.

In 2014, the funding available to support age reversal research was virtually non-existent. It has since grown to hundreds of millions of dollars, aimed at finding ways to make old people grow biologically younger!

Just imagine when annual spending to transform aging into a manageable condition reaches the billions.

This will happen as commercial interests compete to develop better rejuvenation therapies, while charities and governmental institutions simultaneously dedicate more funding to this research arena.

What’s in Suzanne’s Book?

Unlike Life Extension^® supporters, typical readers of Suzanne’s books may require a lot of fundamental guidance as it relates to healthy lifestyle behaviors.

The initial chapters of A New Way to Age describe the basics relating to proper diet, exercise, supplements, hormones, stress management, and environmental toxins.

The importance of a balanced microbiome, why testosterone does not cause prostate cancer in men, and how to avoid heart attacks, are critical knowledge for novices who often only know conventional medicine’s side of the story.

Moving past the basics are interviews with doctors engaged in a variety of experimental treatments. These include age reversal strategies you may already be practicing such as:

• Activating cellular AMPK
• Removal of senescent cells (senolytics)
• Suppression of excess mTOR
• Restoring youthful levels of NAD⁺
• Stem cell enhancements

Can you imagine what will happen if millions of people start insisting their physicians prescribe interventions to enable all the above rejuvenation effects?

This kind of mass uprising will result in a medical renaissance away from the practice of waiting to treat each age-related disease as it insidiously manifests.

Are we Reaching a Tipping Point?

tip·ping point

noun

the point at which
a series of small changes
or incidents becomes
significant enough to
cause a larger, more
important change.

—Lexico.com

Major advances are fast-tracking our understanding of why we age and what interventions can partially reverse it.

In her New Way to Age book, Suzanne Somers advocates that people fight back by initiating interventions aimed at circumventing underlying aging processes.

While this is not new to Life Extension^® readers, it will likely be the first time a large segment of the public learns that aging can be at least partially controlled.

I cannot predict if Suzanne’s new book will be the tipping point that ignites the ultimate societal rebellion against degenerative aging.

Over the past 40 years, I’ve witnessed huge behavior changes in those who pay attention to the science of healthy aging.

I’ve had the privilege of actively participating in changing the public’s view as it relates to slowing premature aging and reducing one’s risk of common age-related disorders.

People today say that they are not going to age like their parents did.

If all this translates into a critical mass that realizes how close we are to meaningful human age reversal, significant resources will be expended toward achieving this goal.

As favorable data from clinical trials continue to be published, the fervor to grow biologically younger will be the inspiration for even more resources to be committed to this universal, benevolent cause.

We are rapidly approaching a time when degenerative aging will be looked back on the same way we see smallpox, polio, and the many infectious diseases that are now largely vanquished.

By challenging the notion that humans must inevitably degenerate as they grow older, we remove the artificial barrier of cynicism and ignorance that historically has delayed introductions of lifesaving techniques, from the ones as simple as cardiopulmonary resuscitation, to those as advanced as organ transplantation.

Human Age Reversal Already Demonstrated

This month’s issue of Life Extension^® magazine describes findings from a recently published study showing human aging going in reverse by 2.5 years using currently available therapies (metformin + DHEA + growth hormone).

We also describe on page 34 of this month’s issue an even a more aggressive, stairstep approach to control of human aging using a broad spectrum of regenerative interventions.

If Suzanne’s A New Way to Age book leads to the tipping point of scientific and public acceptance, look forward to exponential expansions of healthy human lifespans and personally participating in the science of living longer.

It all begins with taking care of yourself today! This includes healthy lifestyle choices advocated since we first published a newsletter (Anti-Aging News) in 1980.

We endured fierce criticism (and governmental persecution) back in those days because the notion of slowing aging was considered “impossible” and serving no public interest.

But science is finally catching up to what Life Extension^® advocated. The work we have done for over 40 years is changing how long and how healthy people live.

Life Extension^® continues to deliver scientifically validated information long before it becomes routine practice by the medical mainstream.

What’s so exciting is that the prospect of age reversal is rapidly transforming into biomedical reality!

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