Planting Seeds: Methuselah Foundation Integral in Building Initiatives

Posted on February 19, 2010 by Reason

Your support continues to make progress in the fight against aging possible. The $3.8 million Mprize Fund is a proof of that. Your donations have made several other advances possible.

Dave Gobel, CEO and Founder, is continually on the lookout for other organizations to support as they seek to learn, create and produce products that lead to understanding and increasing longevity.

Dave kicked off Methuselah Foundation Undergraduate Research Initiative (now SENSFAI-U, the undergraduate component of SENS Foundation’s Academic Initiative). SENS Foundation itself spun off from Methuselah last year.

Dave was also instrumental in development of The Supercentenarian Research Foundation where he is a member of the Organizing Committee. Exploring research related to the health and longevity of those who live 110 years or greater, they have discovered, based on autopsies, that supers aren’t dying from cancer, heart disease, stroke, and Alzheimer’s. Most die from a condition extremely rare among younger people, called senile cardiac TTR Amyloidosis.

Methuselah Foundation has helped Halcyon Molecular with a bridge loan and got them the attention of venture capital which brought significant funding and serious management. Halcyon is developing high throughput, low-cost DNA sequencing.

Methuselah Foundation takes its role as a catalyst very seriously. We will continue to seek out promising work and support worthwhile efforts with your help.

MB4L is growing – Welcome aboard

Posted on February 19, 2010 by Reason

What can you do right now? Join My Bridge 4 Life, an online wellness community loaded with features that make it an invaluable tool. If you are experiencing a life threatening illness, or if you simply want to be a part of the many longevity groups forming there, welcome aboard.

My Bridge 4 Life is a dynamic community program that guides you through the overwhelming nature of a life-threatening diagnosis by helping you divide it into manageable phases, set goals for each phase and build a wellness plan for life in the process. Along the way you’ll receive (and give back) Tips 4 Life from an ever-expanding database of real-world wisdom. Methuselah Foundation Bridge Builders have formed groups that include longevity extension via exercise and intermittent fasting, diet enhancement techniques, organ replacement and organ durability, prolonging mental acuity, and many others.

Add Years to Your Life

Posted on February 19, 2010 by Reason

Friday 12th, February 2010

Add Years to Your Life:

What the anti-aging experts are doing now to live longer, better

What's Hot We asked several leading researchers on aging a simple question: “What are you doing in 2010 to extend your healthy life?” It was fun to watch the answers come in. There are some common responses and some intriguing ones. They all give us something to think about as we plan for this year and the next 50 or so. Read these and decide what you will do to live 100 healthy years.

What some of the Mprize Competitors are doing, in their own words:

“Here is my ditty: Skipping lunch and thinking really hard everyday about how to improve mTOR inhibitors as healthspan extenders.”

Z. Dave Sharp, Ph.D.
University of Texas Health Science Center, San Antonio

“Take vitamin D, resveratrol and fish oil. Lose 5 pounds. Travel less.”

David Sinclair Ph.D
Harvard University

“I continue taking curcumin in the Longvida formulation as a prophylactic and promise to dust off my home exercise equipment and use it.”

Bruce Teter, Ph.D.
University of California Los Angeles

“Eating smaller meals and less protein.
Eating 2 of every 3 meals vegan e.g. vegan breakfast and lunch.
Fasting for 30 or more hours at least once per month (aiming for once per week).
Taking Astragalus extract daily every other month. Taking FoTi daily on the alternate months.

Craig A. Cooney, Ph.D.
University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences

“I floss my teeth, take a baby-size aspirin daily, and benaGene. I also exercise 4 times a week.”

Alan Cash
Terra Biological LLC

“Exercising more, eating less and continuing to work on finding a safe mTOR inhibitor that I would be willing to take for extension of lifespan and healthspan. ”

Randy Strong, Ph.D.
University of Texas Health Science Center, San Antonio

“I do my prescription drugs (Hi BP) and take a baby aspirin; I resolved to lose 20 pounds and to exercise/do yoga daily.”

Tom Johnson, Ph.D.
University of Colorado at Boulder

“I am just very consistent with what I am doing since the days I was an athlete and pole vaulting for my country. I have maintained my body weight from College and maintain likely 100 unwritten rules.
Here are a few simple ones:

Find time to do resistance exercise training (structure OR unstructured) the later one may be best.
I never visit any fast food places and refuse to watch TV with ever so “corrupting” news ads on food
Substituting a lunch/dinner/or breakfast with something very low in calories. Hence period fasting.”

Christiaan Leeuwenburgh, PhD
University of Florida, Institute on Aging

Eating only within a 5 hour period each day (20 hour fasting on average)
Deskwalking
I’m doing a 30 day test of Lyric hearing aids to improve my quality of life (and hear traffic better – you only need to miss one horn beep in traffic to come to a sudden end :-0
Taking vitamin D3

Dave Gobel
Founder and CEO, Methuselah Foundation

Maintain and increase my intake of vitamin D and fish oil supplements.
Increase my aerobic exercise to at least 3 vigorous sessions a week in addition to my regular weight training.
Continue doing the daily and Sunday NY Times crosswords, random sudokus, jigsaw puzzles and trying to buzz in with answers before the contestants on Jeopardy. Gotta ward off that Alzheimer’s!

Max Gomez
Medical Journalist

Distance Athletics – 5 events (3 Tris, 1 run, 1 bike at minimum) and grow the current Methuselah Foundation MyBridge4Life distance athletics group to monitor the effects of diet and simulated fasting via training and competing
Diet – To grow our families personal support and intake from our local organic growers co-op to over 75% or our fruit and vegetable intake, and to scale back animal proteins to under 10% of my diet
Supplements – Continue my current regimen but begin to scale resveratrol and D upward with exercise increase and caloric burn

Roger Holzberg
Founder, My Bridge 4 Life

I’m doing cardio and weight training 3-5 times per week, cutting down on junk and replacing starchy foods like rice, pasta and potatoes with more vegetables instead. I’m also getting all the tests that a guy in his 40′s should, and more, so that I can establish baselines to measure future tests by.

I’m educating myself and reading as much as possible about new technologies for health and medicine and, most importantly, I’m working as hard as I can with great organizations like the Methuselah Foundation to get as many people fired up about the near-term potential of breakthroughs in longevity for themselves and their loved-ones. If we all push a little harder, we will see some amazing things happen in 2010 and beyond!

Kevin Perrott
Mprize Competitor Development, Methuselah Foundation

Drink 4 cups of green tea each day
Dietary Restriction
Recommend all my female friends to be part of the Pink Army Cooperative
Take a 30 min walk every day

Thomas Klauset Aurdal

Methuselah Foundation Newsletter, February 2010

Posted on February 18, 2010 by Reason

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