Ever heard of the Longevity Dividend? Perhaps Gray is the New Gold

By Kronos Longevity Research Institute | May 27, 2009

The Longevi­ty Div­i­dend is a the­o­ry that says we hope to inter­vene sci­en­tif­i­cal­ly to slow the aging process, which will also delay the onset of age-relat­ed dis­eases. Delay­ing aging just sev­en years would slash rates of con­di­tions like can­cer, dia­betes, Alzheimer’s dis­ease and heart dis­ease in half. That’s the longevi­ty part. The div­i­dend comes from the…

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Mental Floss at Military Officer magazine

By Alvaro Fernandez | August 21, 2008

Good arti­cle on the August edi­tion of Mil­i­tary Offi­cer mag­a­zine: Men­tal Floss (August 2008) (link opens a PDF-life doc­u­ment, you can read the text by Zoom­ing In). My 2 favorite quotes, both by Dr. Mol­ly Wag­ster, chief of the Neu­ropsy­chol­o­gy of Aging Branch, Nation­al Insti­tute on Aging (NIA) in Bethes­da, Md: — “Cer­tain­ly as we age there…

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