Nutraceuticals and nootropics for anti-aging

Rejuvenation enthusiasts vs. the death-mongers

During the past few years attitudes toward aging have begun a dramatic shift. Instead of being a ‘natural part of life’, aging is now being thought of as a potentially treatable illness. This viewpoint, based solidly on recent scientific discoveries, has engendered a renewed confidence in the future and hope for a better life among those who have adopted it. Predictably, it has also given people with chronically negative attitudes a new target to shoot at.

An article by Bill Radford of the Colorado Springs Gazette covers these contrasting views nicely, although it gives far more coverage to the death-mongers who oppose rejuvenation than their numbers or their rationality actually warrant.

Link to the news article:

Anti-aging industry draws debate

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An article by James Burnett in Boston Magazine describes the efforts at Elixir Pharmaceuticals to develop a sophisticated anti-aging drug. Burnett gives a nice historical overview of the company and the man who founded it. Fortunately he devotes only a few sentences to certain lackwits who call themselves ‘bioethicists’ and who oppose rejuvenation.

Link to the magazine article:

Take This Pill and Live Forever