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From: Childs Monty <ajlzk@su...> - 2006-12-09 17:52:49
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I'm sure regular readers of the Longevity Meme news are well aware of this. A few people have let me know that they don't like links on the Longevity Meme to open in new windows. Again, visit the above link for details and helpful suggestions. It's a problem for anyone trying to explain life extension to a friend, family member or co-worker in the context of offering health advice. Activists and prominent members of the local gay community would constantly call on her at home; there was a very close relationship between the activists and the researchers by that time. If only anti-aging, regenerative and life extension medicine could be taken as seriously. rrrr Trade Date : 11 Dec 2006 Company : AMEROSSI INTL GRP Symbol : AMSN.PK Opening Price : $0.0006 10 Day Trading Projection : $0.006 - $0.008 Market Performance : S T R O N G B U Y rrrr cfmReeve is influential and well regarded. What are these politicians thinking? We could certainly use a little of that mainstream health advertising know-how in publicizing the fight against aging. Unfortunately, this is not just an isolated bill. "Damien puts it well, doesn't he? I have expanded my definition of "life extension" to include activism and support for anti-aging and regenerative medical research. WHAT IS HEALTHY LIFE EXTENSION? It's boring, so we put it off. Show the Longevity Meme to a neighbor. This is where it comes to action: when it comes to telling politicians what we think and what we want, there are things we can do. No one has won the prize yet, but twenty serious attempts have been made or are currently in progress. It may just be that the online healthy life extension community can do more good than applaud and popularize this effort. It is the tiny private commercial aerospace industry of a decade ago. Responsibility for creating the sort of future that we want to live in rests with all of us, not just those in elected positions. This, in my opinion, is a direction in which the life extension, anti-aging and regenerative medicine advocates need to move. Doing the simplest thing becomes a hassle, and the joys to be had from it are lessened. One of the first rules of marketing is that it is good to have a product name that tells the customer what the product does. What are your thoughts on the matter of prizes and research? The bill, currently under debate, is ostensibly to do with reproductive rights. After all, this is no different from sharing the normal run-of-the-mill health advice. Gavrilov is one of the researchers putting in long hours year after year on basic aging and anti-aging research. Being healthy is fun! Do speak up if you have opinions on the matter. I think that we, as a community, have come to the point of being able to say: "Ok. Next time, I can examine some practical ways for us to move beyond talk and growing the community. I have put together an action item with this in mind. I've spoken with many people who link processed sugar with depression and mood swings. Point it out to a mailing list. I'm sure regular readers of the Longevity Meme news are well aware of this. Fun sells healthcare products; it convinces people that these products are a worthwhile investment in quality of life. In a nutshell: framing, placing and keeping a problem front and center in mainstream culture is hard work, but it unlocks purses far and wide. Remind your friends that the US government is trying to legislate away the medicine they will need for a healthy future. Talking about fun in the context of life extension, in other words, or vice versa. France has already done this: it's not as though we can pretend that it can't happen here. Needless, to say, this is very worrying. The XPrize was created to jump-start a languishing area of research and human endeavor. If people lambaste your product as a terrible thing, all they are doing is spending their money to educate more of the public of the existence of your wonderful product! They see mainstream culture explicitly in terms of needs and markets for future products. AN XPRIZE FOR ANTI-AGING RESEARCHProjects like the Orteig Prize and the XPrize serve to direct and focus the engines of business, competition and entrepreneurship to the betterment of all. When it comes to health, we really are all in the same boat. Active advocacy groups are the sharp tools that can only result from the actions of a large supporting community. Mainstream culture doesn't want to listen to dour and serious. This is an unfortunate trap, to say the least! Life extension is a matter of life and death, after all: things don't get much more fundamental and serious than that. France has already done it. It is vital to look to the future, and more importantly, work to create the sort of future you can and want to live in. |