Methuselah mouse prize and pressure on foundations.

I did not know there was a problem of human aging, we all do it and at
some time die from it. That's the way it should be so what's your problem.

The AARP, in an unusual moment of sanity is not recognizing you and with
a little luck you will succumb to this aging process and then it won't
bother you anymore.

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I haven't seen any sign of a campaign to bring public

pressure on charitable foundations to make any sort of grant

to an extremely worthy cause like the Methuselah Mouse Prize,

which seeks a long term solution to the problem of human aging.

http://www.methuselahmouse.org/

What exactly is the AARP doing to promote this ???

Keeping it's membership physically younger or from dying

before science comes to the rescue certainly sounds like

something it should be interested in.

Anyone out there with expertise or ideas on how to

get large charitable foundations motivated on this ??

Per [email hidden]:

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Keeping it's membership physically younger or from dying

before science comes to the rescue certainly sounds like

something it should be interested in.

Maybe this is an unduly cynical view, but it might be that there's so much lag
time built in to such research/actually implementation that it's moot to anybody
who is already old enough to be an AARP constituent.

i.e. There's probably a lot of really neat stuff coming along in the next few
decades - but somebody making decisions for the AARP could conclude that many of
us, unfortunately, will have just missed the boat.....
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PeteCresswell

I haven't seen any sign of a campaign to bring public

pressure on charitable foundations to make any sort of grant

to an extremely worthy cause like the Methuselah Mouse Prize,

which seeks a long term solution to the problem of human aging.

What exactly is the AARP doing to promote this ???

Keeping it's membership physically younger or from dying

before science comes to the rescue certainly sounds like

something it should be interested in.
Anyone out there with expertise or ideas on how to

get large charitable foundations motivated on this ??

The AARP on living a longer healthier life.

http://www.aarp.org/health/staying_healthy/

Aging is a problem for everyone. The deterioration of the body results
in a decrease in the quality of life and much unnecessay suffering .
Not to mention the huge financial burden of healthcare and care of the
elderly which increases yearly. Aging also results in a loss of
productivity. I don't think anyone needs to be pressuring anyone.
However it may be useful to apprise the AARP of theb fact that a new
wave of geriatric medicines are on the horizon that would negate all of
the above.

See also:

http://www.sci.life-declension.com

Tim

Aging does not need to be associated with a dimished physical capacity
or increased suffering. The longest lived Okinawans were also praised
for their ability to perform physical labor... many doing so even after
the century mark.

I believe that what we see as increased suffering is actually increased
physical degeneration brought on by the foods we eat. Weston Price
noted how healthy the elders were in many of the groups he studied.
They had fine teeth and strong physical structures with no degenerative
diseases to cause suffering. In many groups that ate only whole foods,
people would just die "of old age."

Max.

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The AARP on living a longer healthier life.

http://www.aarp.org/health/staying_healthy/

Aging is a problem for everyone. The deterioration of the body results
in a decrease in the quality of life and much unnecessay suffering .
Not to mention the huge financial burden of healthcare and care of the
elderly which increases yearly. Aging also results in a loss of
productivity. I don't think anyone needs to be pressuring anyone.
However it may be useful to apprise the AARP of theb fact that a new
wave of geriatric medicines are on the horizon that would negate all of
the above.

See also:

http://www.sci.life-declension.com

Tim