Founded by Paul F. Glenn in 1965, the mission of the Glenn Foundation For Medical Research is to extend the healthy years of life through research on mechanisms of biology that govern normal human aging and its related physiological decline, with the objective of translating research into interventions that will extend
healthspan with lifespan.
Not exact matches
The finding, published in Nature Cell Biology, shows that once disrupted, it takes time for the inflammatory loop to reestablish, providing proof - of - principal that intermittent dosing could provide a way to reap the benefits of rapamycin, an FDA - approved drug that extends lifespan and
healthspan in mice, while lessening safety issues associated
with its use.
Furthermore, given the massive amount of funding allocated to research into facilitating and optimizing space exploration and optimization, the researchers hope to have shown how research into enhancing radioresistance for space exploration could galvanize progress in human
healthspan extension, an area of research that is still massively underfunded despite its potential to prevent the massive economic burden posed by the future healthcare costs associated
with demographic aging.
«We already know that manipulating mTOR increases both lifespan and
healthspan in mice,» said Kennedy, who added that some of the mice will be treated
with drugs that inhibit mTOR.
UNITY Biotechnology Launches
with a Focus on Preventing and Reversing Diseases of Aging February 03, 2016 SAN FRANCISCO --(BUSINESS WIRE)-- UNITY Biotechnology today announced that it is developing medicines to treat and eliminate age - related diseases and increase
healthspan, or the amount of time an individual lives in good health.
We collaborate
with academic and corporate research and development organizations to characterize conditions mediated by senescent cells, and to identify pharmaceutical candidates that may control or ameliorate such conditions and increase
healthspan.
Sponsored by the Glenn Foundation for Medical Research in collaboration
with AFAR, the two - year, $ 200,000 BIG award is designed to provide timely support to a small number of research projects that are building on early discoveries that show translational potential for clinically relevant strategies, treatments and therapeutics that address human aging and
healthspan.
Compared
with vitamin C, itself a powerful antioxidant, SOD is 3,500 times stronger.5 Animal studies have also shown that «supplementing»
with SOD can also increase lifespan and
healthspan.
The goal of anti-aging medicine is to use recent scientific advances and treatment modalities to promote «Healthy Aging» and to prolong the
healthspan of an individual — so that more of their years are spent in good health and few, if any, are spent
with disease.
The symptoms of fast aging, from fatigue to osteoporosis to cancer, can lead to a shorter
healthspan (the amount of time you feel most alive and brimming
with energy).