The Science and Technology of Growing Young

Title Page
Copyright
Dedication
Contents
Foreword: The End of Aging Is Near by Peter H. Diamandis and Ray Kurzweil
Chapter 1: Life at 200—How and When Technology Will Enable Us to Live Longer Than We Ever Thought Possible
	Shuffle Off This Mortal Coil
	Why This Book
Chapter 2: Defining Longevity—The Three Dimensions of Longevity Impact and the Two Horizons of the Longevity Revolution
	What Is the Secret to Living Longer? First—Do Not Die
	Breaking the “Sound Barrier” of Lifespan
	Turning Back Time, and Growing Young
	The Near Horizon of Longevity: Living to Be 150 Years Old
	The Far Horizon of Longevity: Living to Be 200 Years Old—or More
	The Current Day: How to Live Long Enough to Live Forever
Chapter 3: The Longevity Revolution—The Three Most Popular Myths About Longevity, and the Four Technological Shifts Blowing Them Apart
	Myth 1: “Living More Means Living Less”
	Myth 2: “Longevity Is Dangerous and Selfish”
	Myth 3: “Life Extension Is Not Really Possible”
	The Genetic Engineering Breakthrough
	The Regenerative Medicine Breakthrough
	The Health-Care Hardware Breakthrough
	The Health Data Intelligence Breakthrough
Chapter 4: What Is Aging, Anyway?—The Colorful Theories of What Causes Aging, and Why They May Not Even Matter
	Theories of Aging
	Entering a New Era of Aging
	The Hallmarks of Aging
	Age Is in the Eye of the Epigenome
	Technology as Timekeeper
	Age Is Just a Number
The Near Horizon of Longevity
Chapter 5: DIY Diagnostics—How Wearable, Portable, Embeddable, and Ingestible New Technologies Will Deliver Early Diagnosis and Radically Reduce Disease and Death
	Diagnosis Is in a Deep Crisis
	Diagnostics Become Noninvasive and Highly Affordable
	Diagnostics Go DIY
	A Look into the (Near) Future of DIY Diagnostics
	Data Are at the Center of Diagnostics
Chapter 6: Precision Medicine—How Health Data and Artificial Intelligence Are Turning the Practice of Sick Care into the Science of Health Care
	Getting Personalome
	AI to the Rescue
	The Promise of Precision
	The Doctor Won’t See You Now
	The Power of Virtual Connection
	Your Data or Your Life
	The Health-Care Landscape It Is A-Changin’
Chapter 7: Engineering Our Genetic Code—How Human Genome Sequencing Is Paving the Way for Radical New Technological Advances in Health Care and Longevity
	Sequencing the Human Genome
	Making CRISPR Work of Gene Editing
	Altering the Genes Inside Your Body’s Cells
	Could This Be the End of Cancer?
	Engineering Longevity Genes
	The Future of Gene Engineering
	Opening Pandora’s Box
Chapter 8: Your Body 2.0—Stem Cell Therapy, Organ Replacement, and Bionic Augmentation Offer the Possibility to Regenerate Damaged and Aged Bodies—and Create New Ones!
	Back to the Future: Stem Cell Therapy
	Oh, If I Only Had a Heart . . .
	The Six-Million-Dollar You
	New (and Old) Ideas in Regeneration
	A Whole New You?
Chapter 9: Longevity in a Pill—Why It’s Illegal to Die of Old Age and How Reversing Aging Is Set to Change the Way We Grow Old
	Special Delivery—of Drugs
	Here’s to Your (Mitochondrial) Health
	Longevity Out from Under a Rock
	A Sweet Discovery from the Middle Ages
	Out with the Old, In with the New
	Peptides and Vitamins and Supplements (Oh My!)
	Pharma Is Getting Faster and Smarter
	Changing the Politics of Old Age
The Far Horizon of Longevity
Chapter 10: Living Beyond Age 200—The Quantum Leaps That Will Allow Humankind to Achieve Extreme Longevity
	The Logical Case for Longevity
	Extreme Longevity Meets Technical Inevitability
	Man and Machine Become One
	Going Beyond This Mortal Coil
Chapter 11: The Morality of Immortality—How the World Needs to Change to Be Ready for the Twenty-Second Century
	Immortal Life, Endangered Planet
	The Morality of Immortality
	Growing Older—and Wiser
Bonus Chapter: Who Wants to Live Forever?—The 10 Attitudes, Habits, and Choices You Need to Make to Take Advantage of the Longevity Revolution—Now
	1. You Better Check Yourself
	2. Quit Your Bad Habits
	3. Don’t Do Dumb Things
	4. Eat Early, and Less Often
	5. Let Food Be Thy Medicine
	6. Supplement Your Nutrition
	7. Get On Up!
	8. Make Sleep Your Superpower
	9. Mindfulness over Matter
	10. Think and Grow Young
Acknowledgments
About the Author
Notes
Index