Download e-book for kindle: Eternity Soup: Inside the Quest to End Aging by Greg Critser

By Greg Critser

Combine the most recent and such a lot rigorous clinical study, irrepressible outdated entrepreneurship, and the traditional human wish to reside without end (or not less than much longer) and the result's today’s exploding multibillion-dollar antiaging undefined. Its achievements are up to now usually marginal, yet its provides movement with all of the attract of a twenty-first-century fountain of minor. In Eternity Soup, acclaimed technology author Greg Critser takes us to each outpost of the antiaging panorama, domestic to zealots and skeptics, charlatans, and inventive clinicians and academics.

We stopover at a convention of the Caloric restrict Society, whose members—inspired via yes laboratory findings related to mice—live their lives in a country simply above hunger. (“It’s basically the 1st 5 years which are uncomfortable,” says one.) We meet the hot wave of pharmacists who're reviving the erstwhile artwork of “compounding”—using mortar and pestle to combine extravagantly ecocnomic potions for getting older boomers trying to recapture flagging sexual power. right here, too, are the theorists and researchers who're looking to comprehend the cellular-level reasons of senescence and getting older and others who say, Why hassle with that? as a substitute, we should always simply how you can fix and substitute organs and tissue that holiday down, like a classic motor vehicle collector who retains a century-old version T shining and working like new.

Eternity Soup is a simmering brew of tes­tosterone patches, human progress hormone (so promising and so very likely dangerous), theories that view getting older as a curable affliction, laboratory-grown substitute organs (“I are looking to construct a kidney,” says one proponent. “It is the sort of stup-eed organ!”), and bountiful different troubling, hilarious, and invigorating parts. Critser unearths lots of chicanery and credulousness within the antiaging realm but additionally a shocking measure of optimism, even between a few previously sober skeptics, that we may perhaps certainly be at the cusp of anything vast. And that elicits its personal new set of issues: How will our society take care of a projected new cohort of 1000000 fit centenarian american citizens? How will they free up themselves from the age segregation that shunts them off to “God’s ready Rooms” within the sunbelt? the place will they locate pleasure and intending to fit the inevitable loss that incorporates sturdiness? Eternity Soup is an illuminating, wry, and provocative attention of a long-dreamed-about international which could now be changing into a fact.