- Outline of life extension
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See also: Index of life extension-related articles
The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to life extension:
Life extension – study of slowing down or reversing the processes of aging to extend both the maximum and average lifespan. Also known as anti-aging medicine, experimental gerontology, and biomedical gerontology.
Contents
Core
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Main article: Life extension
Strategies
Available strategies
- Anti-aging nutrition and medicine
- Anti-oxidants (biopreservatives)
- Calorie restriction or intermittent fasting
- Exercise
Potential future strategies
- Cryonics
- Genetic therapies
- Cloning and body part replacement
- Cell replacement therapies (CRT)
- SENS (Strategies for Engineered Negligible Senescence)
- Mind uploading
- Suspended animation
- Immunisation
Causes of aging
- Free radicals
- Glycation
- Viral infections (acute or chronic)
- DNA damage theory of aging
Theories of energy
- Theories of aging
- Antagonistic pleiotropy theory of aging
- Caloric restriction theory
- Cross-linkage theory of aging
- Death hormone theory
- Disposable soma theory of aging
- Error catastrophe theory of aging
- Errors and Repairs Theory
- Free-radical theory
- Gene mutation theory
- Genetic control theory
- Glycation theory of aging
- Hayflick limit theory
- Inflammation theory of aging
- Immunological theory of aging
- Membrane theory of aging
- Mitochondrial Free Radical Theory of Aging
- Mitochondrial Theory of Aging
- Mutation accumulation theory of aging
- Neuroendocrine theory of aging
- Order to disorder theory of aging
- Rate of living theory
- Redundant DNA theory
- Reliability theory of aging and longevity
- Somatic mutation theory of aging
- Telomeric theory of aging
- Theory of programmed death
- Thermodynamic theory of aging
- Thymic-stimulating theory
- Waste accumulation theory
Organizations
- Alcor Life Extension Foundation
- Alliance for Aging Research
- American Academy of Anti-Aging Medicine
- American Aging Association
- Cryonics Institute
- Methuselah Foundation
- SENS Foundation
Notable people
Further reading
- Ending Aging, a 2007 book which describes Aubrey de Grey's medical proposal for defeating aging (i.e. SENS).
Life extension Issues Anti-oxidants · Calorie restriction · Cryonics · Exercise · Free-radical theory · Gerontology · Glycation · Indefinite lifespan · Index of life extension-related articles · Longevity · Mind uploading · Rejuvenation · Senescence · Stem cell treatments · Strategies for Engineered Negligible Senescence · Suspended animation
People Bill Andrews · Aubrey de Grey · Terry Grossman · Leonard Hayflick · Denham Harman · Saul Kent · Ray Kurzweil · Marios Kyriazis · Durk Pearson · Sandy Shaw · Roy Walford · Michael D. WestOrganizations Alcor Life Extension Foundation · Alliance for Aging Research · American Academy of Anti-Aging Medicine · American Aging Association · American Cryonics Society · Cryonics Institute · Cryonics Society · Immortalist Society · Immortality Institute · KrioRus · Life Extension Foundation · Methuselah Foundation · SENS Foundation · Sierra SciencesBooks Categories Outlines General reference · Culture and the arts · Geography and places · Health and fitness · History and events · Mathematics and logic · Natural and physical sciences · People and self · Philosophy and thinking · Religion and belief systems · Society and social sciences · Technology and applied sciencesCategories: -
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