Life extension | Wikipedia audio article
Channel: wikipedia tts
Date: 2019-05-06

This is an audio version of the Wikipedia Article:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life_extension


00:01:21 1 Average and maximum lifespan
00:03:46 2 Strategies
00:03:55 2.1 Diets and supplements
00:04:59 2.2 Hormone treatment
00:05:43 3 History
00:10:32 3.1 Scientific research
00:12:13 4 Ethics and politics
00:13:06 4.1 Scientific controversy
00:13:43 4.2 Consumer motivations
00:14:29 4.3 Political parties
00:15:18 4.4 Silicon Valley
00:15:43 4.5 Commentators
00:17:24 4.6 Overpopulation concerns
00:18:11 4.7 Opinion polls
00:19:25 5 Aging as a disease
00:21:02 6 Research
00:22:57 6.1 Anti-aging drugs
00:24:15 6.2 Nanotechnology
00:25:30 6.3 Cloning and body part replacement
00:27:20 6.4 Cyborgs
00:27:39 6.5 Cryonics
00:29:43 6.6 Strategies for engineered negligible senescence
00:30:37 6.7 Genetic editing
00:31:19 6.8 Fooling genes
00:32:24 6.9 Mind uploading
00:33:21 6.10 Young blood injection



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Life extension is the idea of extending the human lifespan, either modestly – through improvements in medicine – or dramatically by increasing the maximum lifespan beyond its generally settled limit of 125 years. The ability to achieve such dramatic changes, however, does not currently exist.Some researchers in this area, and "life extensionists", "immortalists" or "longevists" (those who wish to achieve longer lives themselves), believe that future breakthroughs in tissue rejuvenation, stem cells, regenerative medicine, molecular repair, gene therapy, pharmaceuticals, and organ replacement (such as with artificial organs or xenotransplantations) will eventually enable humans to have indefinite lifespans (agerasia) through complete rejuvenation to a healthy youthful condition. The ethical ramifications, if life extension becomes a possibility, are debated by bioethicists.
The sale of purported anti-aging products such as supplements and hormone replacement is a lucrative global industry. For example, the industry that promotes the use of hormones as a treatment for consumers to slow or reverse the aging process in the US market generated about $50 billion of revenue a year in 2009. The use of such products has not been proven to be effective or safe.