William Faloon

Words cannot describe the exhilaration we feel in response to rapid developments in the age-reversal research arena.

A study published in 2024 corroborates prior reports of systemic regeneration in old mice using a gene therapy to improve overall health and extend remaining lifespans.¹

What makes extending the remaining lifespan so critical?

Because if a therapy given to young people increases healthy longevity, but does not reverse aging in old persons, then many readers of Life Extension Magazine® will miss out on the upcoming biomedical renaissance.

I’m often asked, “When will humans start enjoying these benefits?”

To put the timeframe in historic context, Wilbur Wright wrote in 1900:

“For some years I have been afflicted with the belief that flight is possible to man.”²

But, Wilbur’s “belief” contradicted conventional wisdom.

In 1895, Lord Kelvin stated that

“Heavier-than-air flying machines are impossible”.³

In October 1903, the Washington Post published:

“It is a fact that man can’t fly.” ⁴

None of this pessimism deterred the Wright Brothers. They had no formal technical training, no financial backers, no government subsidies, and little money of their own. They nonetheless persisted until:

INTERNATIONAL NEWS HEADLINE

December 17, 1903

When the World Changed Forever

Kitty Hawk, North Carolina

Regenerative Medicine is Further Advanced than the Wright Brothers in 1900

I am privileged to network with scientists who, unlike the Wright Brothers, have advanced technical training, and robust interactions with many of the world’s foremost interventive gerontology experts.

They are supported by donors like our Life Extension group who are determined to reverse human aging in our lifetime. And there is growing consensus today about genuine advances occurring in the super- longevity biomedical fields.

Our group funded a record amount of research in 2024 with the goal of enabling significant human rejuvenation in the next two to three years...which would perhaps be our Kitty Hawk moment (analogous to December 17, 1903).

In The Propect of Human Age Reversal in this month’s magazine issue, I describe some of today’s age-reversal projects, many of which are funded from proceeds of blood tests and supplements you purchase from Life Extension.

Stated succinctly, more progress has been made in the fields of in vivo biological age reversal over the past 18 months than perhaps in the entirety of human history.

You should enjoy reading in this month’s issue about what you can do today to delay the aging process and how close scientists are to reversing it.

Relentless Perseverance

Kitty Hawk is a sparse stretch of barrier islands in North Carolina.

As told in a review in the Wall Street Journal, the Wright Brothers slept in a tent, cooked food on an open fire, survived hurricanes, scorching heat, and plagues of mosquitoes.

They had frequent mishaps/crashes, forcing them to stop and rebuild. The Wrights made several trips to Kitty Hawk, staying for months at a time…funded from their bicycle business.⁵

On December 17, 1903, Orville flew in a powered machine…proving for the first time the feasibility of heavier-than-air flight.^5,6

Scientists today are relentlessly investigating multiple methods of reversing pathological aging.

For longer life,

William Faloon, Co-Founder, Life Extension®

References

1. Macip CC, Hasan R, Hoznek V, et al. Gene Therapy-Mediated Partial Reprogramming Extends Lifespan and Reverses Age-Related Changes in Aged Mice. Cell Reprogram. 2024 Feb;26(1):24-32.
2. Available at: https://www.loc.gov/collections/wilbur-and-orville-wright-papers/articles-and-essays/the-belief-that-flight-is-possible-to-man/. Accessed October 3, 2024.
3. Available at: https://scienceworld.wolfram.com/biography/Kelvin.html. Accessed October 3, 2024.
4. Available at: https://perfectmanifesto.com/2022/06/29/how-the-wright-brothers-found-success-against-all-odds/. Accessed October 3, 2024.
5. Available at: https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-workingest-boys-1430780991. Accessed October 3, 2024.
6. Available at: https://www.nasa.gov/history/120-years-ago-the-first-powered-flight-at-kitty-hawk/. Accessed October 3, 2024.