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How long will you live? Think you’ll make it to 90? 100? 120? With all the nonsense about longevity, it’s time to learn the facts, fads and fallacies of living longer. Long life is humanity's ancient and perennial goal. Prophets promised it; explorers searched for it. We all want our loved ones alive and well, vigorous and vibrant. We toast, "To Life". The trick is to live younger, not just longer. I’d rather disembark at 90, having lived like a 40 year old, than slog on to l00, having trudged along like a 90 year old. What’s the Biology of Aging — and the best, most sensible advice to slow it? How do you find true longevity amidst the clutter of conflicting claims? 

Participants: Anderson, De Vany, Nuland, Stock, Walford

 

	W. French Anderson is Director of the Gene Therapy Laboratories at the University of Southern California (USC) where he is also professor of biochemistry and pediatrics. He is recognized as the leading pioneer of gene therapy — he is called the "Father of Gene Therapy" -- perhaps the most revolutionary medical advance in recent times. Dr. Anderson was featured in a major story in TIME magazine; he is editor-in-chief of Human Gene Therapy and he has a gold medal in karate.
	Arthur S. De Vany is professor of economics at the University of California at Irvine. He is a former professional athlete and a lifelong fitness buff whose theories of Evolutionary Fitness, a forthcoming book, are unusual.
	Sherwin Nuland is clinical professor of surgery at Yale University, where he also teaches medical history and bioethics. His best-selling books, How We Die and How We Live, are remarkable portraits of life and death and have been called resonant works of moral philosophy.
	Gregory Stock is Director of UCLA’s (University of California at Los Angeles) Program on Medicine, Technology and Society where he focuses on transformational technologies such as genetic engineering. Trained in both biophysics and business, he is the author of Metaman: The Merging of Humans and Machines into a Global Superorganism. An earlier book exploring values, The Book of Questions, has sold over 2 million copies and translated into 15 languages.
	Roy Walford is one of the leading authorities on the biology of aging and has promoted the concept of retarding aging and disease through dietary restriction. He has been professor of pathology at University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) Medical School for 30 years and was the physician inside Biosphere 2 for two years of sealed enclosure. He has published numerous articles and books on aging, including The 120-Year Diet and The Anti-Aging Plan.
	Robert Lawrence Kuhn is the creator and host of the Closer To Truth television series and author of the Closer To Truth book. Trained in brain research (Ph.D. UCLA), he has published more than twenty books, including the Handbook for Creative and Innovative Managers and the seven-volume Library of Investment Banking. He is the president of The Geneva Companies, a leading merger and acquisition firm for private, middle market businesses.
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