Outline of life extension

The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to life extension:

Life extension – study of slowing down or reversing the processes of aging to extend both the maximum and average lifespan. Also known as anti-aging medicine, experimental gerontology, and biomedical gerontology.

Core

Main article: Life extension

• Anti-aging
• Gerontology
• Longevity
• Rejuvenation

Strategies

Available strategies

• Anti-aging nutrition and medicine
  • Anti-oxidants (biopreservatives)
• Calorie restriction or intermittent fasting
• Exercise

Potential future strategies

• Cryonics
• Genetic therapies
  • Cloning and body part replacement
  • Cell replacement therapies (CRT)
• SENS (Strategies for Engineered Negligible Senescence)
• Mind uploading
• Suspended animation
• Immunisation

Causes of aging

• Free radicals
• Glycation
• Viral infections (acute or chronic)
• DNA damage theory of aging

Theories of energy

• Theories of aging
  • Antagonistic pleiotropy theory of aging
  • Caloric restriction theory
  • Cross-linkage theory of aging
  • Death hormone theory
  • Disposable soma theory of aging
  • Error catastrophe theory of aging
  • Errors and Repairs Theory
  • Free-radical theory
  • Gene mutation theory
  • Genetic control theory
  • Glycation theory of aging
  • Hayflick limit theory
  • Inflammation theory of aging
  • Immunological theory of aging
  • Membrane theory of aging
  • Mitochondrial Free Radical Theory of Aging
  • Mitochondrial Theory of Aging
  • Mutation accumulation theory of aging
  • Neuroendocrine theory of aging
  • Order to disorder theory of aging
  • Rate of living theory
  • Redundant DNA theory
  • Reliability theory of aging and longevity
  • Somatic mutation theory of aging
  • Telomeric theory of aging
  • Theory of programmed death
  • Thermodynamic theory of aging
  • Thymic-stimulating theory
  • Waste accumulation theory

Organizations

• Alcor Life Extension Foundation
• Alliance for Aging Research
• American Academy of Anti-Aging Medicine
• American Aging Association
• Cryonics Institute
• Methuselah Foundation
• SENS Foundation

Notable people

• Aubrey de Grey
• Leonard Hayflick
• Saul Kent
• Durk Pearson
• Sandy Shaw
• Roy Walford
• Michael D. West

Further reading

• Ending Aging, a 2007 book which describes Aubrey de Grey's medical proposal for defeating aging (i.e. SENS).