Add Years to Your Life:
What the anti-aging experts are doing now to live longer, better
 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:
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“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
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“Take vitamin D, resveratrol and fish oil. Lose 5 pounds. Travel less.”
David Sinclair Ph.DHarvard University
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“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
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- “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
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“I floss my teeth, take a baby-size aspirin daily, and benaGene. I also exercise 4 times a week.”
Alan CashTerra Biological LLC
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“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
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“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
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“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, PhDUniversity of Florida, Institute on Aging
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- 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 GobelFounder and CEO, Methuselah Foundation
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- 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 GomezMedical Journalist
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- 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 HolzbergFounder, My Bridge 4 Life
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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 PerrottMprize Competitor Development, Methuselah Foundation
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- 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 |
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