Outline of life extension
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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.
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[edit] Core
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Main article: Life extension
[edit] Strategies
[edit] Available strategies
- Anti-aging nutrition and medicine
- Anti-oxidants (biopreservatives)
- Calorie restriction or intermittent fasting
- Exercise
[edit] Potential future strategies
- Cryonics
- Genetic therapies
- SENS (Strategies for Engineered Negligible Senescence)
- Mind uploading
- Suspended animation
- Immunisation
[edit] Causes of aging
- Free radicals
- Glycation
- Viral infections (acute or chronic)
- DNA damage theory of aging
[edit] 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
[edit] Organizations
- Alcor Life Extension Foundation
- Alliance for Aging Research
- American Academy of Anti-Aging Medicine
- American Aging Association
- Cryonics Institute
- Methuselah Foundation
- SENS Foundation
[edit] Notable people
[edit] Further reading
- Ending Aging, a 2007 book which describes Aubrey de Grey's medical proposal for defeating aging (i.e. SENS).
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