The Life Extension Foundation is the world’s largest organization dedicated to finding scientific methods for addressing disease, aging, and death. The Life Extension Foundation is a non-profit group that funds pioneering scientific research aimed at achieving an indefinitely extended healthy human lifespan. The fruits of this research are used to develop novel disease prevention and treatment protocols.

Foundation members take advantage of proven therapies to address disease and slow premature aging today. The scientific literature contains thousands of studies on the use of nutrients, hormones, and other therapies to improve the quality of life. Life extension members use this information, in conjunction with their physicians and other health care advisors, to improve their chances of living longer in good health.

At the heart of The Foundation’s program are its research programs aimed at identifying and developing new therapies to slow and reverse the deterioration of aging — the underlying cause of most deaths in the United States and other developed countries. Killers such as heart disease, stroke, cancer, and Alzheimer’s disease are caused, in large part, by the progressive decline in normal structure and function associated with aging. The control of human aging will reduce and, eventually, eliminate degenerative disease, which could enable us to remain alive, healthy, and vigorous for centuries.

Research supported by The Life Extension Foundation has documented the value of nutrients, hormones and drugs at preventing and reversing cell damage caused by oxidation, inflammation, excitotoxicity, and other lethal processes. Scientists in The Foundation’s research labs have blocked damage caused by reduced blood flow (ischemia) to the brain. Ischemia is an underlying cause of damage in patients who suffer from disorders such as coronary artery disease, trauma, and aging-related neurologic deterioration. This type of research will lead to the ability to save the lives of millions of people who would otherwise die, and to improve the quality of life of all of us as we grow older.

The Life Extension Foundation also funds the only scientific program in the world to develop new medical uses for advanced low-temperature technologies. Fundamental breakthroughs in ice control made by Foundation-funded scientists are leading to remarkable new methods of cryopreserving cells, tissues, and organs for transplant. Over the next 10 to 20 years, the use of cryopreserved tissues – for the treatment of aging and degeneration will revolutionize the interconnected practice of medicine and the other wellness and healing arts and sciences. The long-term goal of The Foundation’s low-temperature research program is the development of human suspended animation, which will enable physicians to transport dying patients through time for treatment by the super-advanced medical scientists of the future.

Life Extension is funding a highly innovative research program to pinpoint the genetic and biochemical changes associated with aging. The objective is to use these data to develop a validated method to measure aging over short periods of time. This method will then be used to screen and evaluate (in highly rapid fashion) the safety and effectiveness of vast numbers of therapies with anti-aging potential.

The Foundation is currently the only source of funding on Earth for lifespan studies in mice to determine the effects on aging and lifespan of potential antiaging therapies. These studies are being conducted by gerontologists at the University of Wisconsin in Madison, the University of California in Riverside, and the University of Arkansas in Little Rock. They are testing the antiaging potential of vitamins, drugs, and hormones now being used by life extensionists to counteract pathological biochemical processes such as oxidative stress (induced by free radicals), declining energy production (mitochondrial dysfunction), glycosylation (pathological binding of protein and glucose molecules), and loss of methylation capacity (required for DNA maintenance and to repair enzymatic actions).

As soon as this research leads to the discovery of safe and effective therapies of benefit to the members, they are incorporated into The Foundation’s Disease Prevention and Treatment Protocols so they may be used by members as quickly as possible. As more people join The Foundation, the pace of this research will be accelerated until total control over aging is achieved, along with the ability to extend the healthy human lifespan for hundreds...even thousands of years! Every month, members of The Life Extension Foundation receive a 96-page magazine that brings them up-to-date on the latest scientific and medical breakthroughs from around the world.

In addition to learning about life-saving therapies first, Foundation members can privately obtain pharmaceutical-quality supplements through a unique wholesale “buyers club” discount program that is available only to members. New members receive free books that contain highlights of what the Foundation has published since 1980.

The Foundation monitors thousands of scientific studies every week to make sure its therapy protocols are as up to date as possible. Life Extension personnel interact with the foremost medical and anti-aging researchers in the world to obtain inside information about the latest life extension breakthroughs. Foundation members often gain access to disease-preventing, anti aging findings before they are published in scientific and medical journals.

The Life Extension Foundation was incorporated in 1980, but its founders have been writing about and financially supporting antiaging research since the 1960s.

The Foundation is the foremost organization in the US protecting the rights of Americans to import lifesaving medications for their own personal use. The Foundation maintains a directory of innovative practicing physicians who can assist you in implementing the advanced, innovative therapies it recommends.

New medical information is being uncovered at an exponential rate. Members of The Life Extension Foundation learn about medical breakthroughs years before the general public. If you are concerned about your health and longevity, we highly recommend that you join the non-profit Life Extension Foundation.

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