The Left and Right Agree - Smash Aging! Here's How.
Channel: Lifespan News
Date: 2022-01-14

The newly launched Alliance for Longevity Initiatives (A4LI), an organization founded to advance legislation and policies that aim to increase healthy human lifespan, recently held their first public event. It featured some well known names in longevity, but also a few you might not have expected - such as the Republican former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich, and former Democratic congressman Steve Israel. We’ll tell you what was discussed, and their plans for the future, in this episode of Lifespan News!

According to their website, the A4LI is an independent 501(c)(4) nonprofit founded with the goal of creating social and political action, specifically  around the issues of combating age-related chronic conditions and increasing our number of healthy, disease-free years.

The organization was created by Dylan Livingston, who currently serves as its president and CEO. Dylan has described himself as a “politico”, and previously worked as a Biden campaign staffer. In 2021 Dylan participated in a Foresight Institute event in which he outlined some of the possible initiatives and strategies of A4LI, which include Establishing a Longevity Caucus In Congress, Increasing Funding for the National Institute on Aging - Division of Aging Biology, and Helping the FDA to Understand and Support Geroscience.

This panel, which was moderated by Dylan, also included Dr. Nir Barzilai, Dr. Dina Radenkovic, and A4LI Chair of the Board Sonia Arrison. It is great to hear that politicians, academics, and business leaders are taking this issue seriously, and coming up with their own ideas for what we can do to advance healthspan-extension science. And it’s also encouraging that some of the ideas that they put forward in this conversation were ones that others share as well, so it seems that there is a real possibility of broad agreement, regardless of party or ideology, that can lead to a unified approach to these problems that we’re all facing. Remember, the left and right agree - smash aging! Now we just need to do it.

You can learn about the Alliance for Longevity Initiatives, and support their work, at a4li.org. Keith Comito of Lifespan.io, the parent organization of Lifespan News, is a Director of A4LI.

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“Creating Political Action to Increase Healthy Human Lifespan” - https://youtu.be/XOcJtxWsejY

Foresight Institute Video - https://youtu.be/jtSHuGatKfw

Lifespan.io, "Creating Political Action to Increase Healthy Human Lifespan" - https://www.lifespan.io/news/creating-political-action-to-increase-healthy-human-lifespan/

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