At 43 you indeed have a much better shot at breaking the 120 year age barrier than I do now at 80. Nontheless I am going for it. Are you free on Nov 17 2049? I want you to come to my 120th birthday celebration.

vince

Maatthew’s site is at http://www.future-of-anti-aging.com/
You can also get there by clicking on his name in the blog post.

My sense is that Matthew’s blog features a lot of aging news and anti-aging news and feature articles and is targeted to a general audience. This blog, by contrast, is more oriented towards professionals and science-minded people who want to penetrate through the commercial hype and understand the changing scene of what science knows and does not know at the moment. This requires hard intellectual work. While I write general posts, most are technical and some very technical in nature. And, I do not accept advertising. Anti-aging is a great and growing field and there is plenty of room for all of us.

I will contribute something there soon, Matthew. At the moment I am experiencing overload due to the incredible success of this blog and related personal exposure. I will be traveling, speaking and writing more in professional media as well as keeping up with more and more intelligent comments. Right now, there are about 1,400 different blog visitors a day who stay to view at least two pages and viewership has about a 20% monthly growth rate.

Vince

Regarding astragalus, there is quite a story relating it to TA-65, cycloastragenol, astragaloside, etc. I have written about this extensively in my treatise and in many blog entries. I suggest you have a look at the post
Telomerase activators – what do they really do? at
http://anti-agingfirewalls.com/2010/04/09/telomerase-activators-%e2%80%93-what-do-they-really-do/
For more, just do a blog search on astragalus. Personally, I am now taking both astragalus supplements and 10mg a day of cycloastragenol.
Vince

P.S. I just turned 43. I sure hope to break through 120 years some day. By then I suppose we should have biostasis options to let us sleep deeply and allow for whole body regeneration. At the least, it could allow us to “sleep” into the future when more options will be available.

Your points are excellent. Personally, at 80 now I am looking forward to entering middle age for the second time when I get to be around 145. Living healthily and productively to about 245 years has been a context for my life for 16 years now and this context informs everything I do. Among other things, the context has supported me to delve deeply into anti-aging science as a new full-time career about two years ago.

Welcome as a contributor to this blog! Are you the person behind the website http://www.future-of-anti-aging.com/ ?

Vince

Sounds so good my mouth is watering. And thank you so much for the birthday greeting and comments on my blog. Your contributions bring vitality to the discussion.
Any special recipies you might want to contribute?
Vince