The Science and Technology of Growing Young, Updated Edition: An Insider's Guide to the Breakthroughs that Will Dramatically Extend Our Lifespan . . . and What You Can Do Right Now Paperback – September 24, 2024

Three Reasons to Read Serge Young’s “The Science and Technology of Growing Young.”For some years I’ve given talks on “You Can Live to 200 If Government Will Let You,” highlighting longevity breakthroughs and the need to reform the antiquated FDA certification process. So a book that opens with “Life at 200” obviously resonates with me. I’ve been familiar with Serge Young’s work, so I’m thrilled with this well-organized book!Serge opens by declaring that living long—even for centuries—and in good health is now possible. He reviews the nature and issues associated with longevity and aging, refuting popular myths. In the “Near Horizon of Longevity” chapters he dives into the current and likely-to-come-soon technologies and breakthroughs that will extend health and life. In the “Far Horizon of Longevity” chapters he projects a future that even a decade ago would have seemed scifi but, now, rests on real science!There are three crucial reasons why you must read this book.First, your own life and health should be your highest value, and this book will help you take charge of them. You might think that if you’re not a high-level researcher that such an effort for you is hopeless. It is not. This book will allow you to understand aging, and can be your handbook for saving your life. It will not be the end of your effort. But will empower you in that effort. And the efficacy you acquire as you take control of your life no doubt will nurture in you the mindset to flourish as you pursue all the goals that make living long and healthy worthwhile.Second, the book will allow you to be an agent of cultural change. Today, even with COVID, exponential tech puts us in a position for an unimaginably bright future. Yet the culture is mired in pessimism, nihilism, anger, and envy. Armed with the insights in Serge’s book, you can enlighten your family, friends, and those in your social circles about how the world can be and should be. You will help transform the culture into one of optimism, purpose, joy in achievement, and benevolence.Third, to unleash an age of long, healthy, productive lives will require radical transformations of our public policies and institutions. From Serge’s book you can how sequencing our genomes, wearable diagnostics, real-time-monitoring, AIs, genetic engineering, and other technologies can transform the current “sickcare” system—you get sick and argue with gov. or insurance about who pays the bills—into a true healthcare system. But most influencers and public policy makers, to say nothing of the general public, know nothing about current and coming longevity breakthroughs. Making others familiar and as conversant with these breakthroughs as most folks now are with the internet, PCs, smartphones, wifi, and the like will be indispensable to policy and institutional transformations needed to unleash our healthy, undying future.So for your own good and that of your loved ones and our society, check out Serge’s find book!

This book is jam-packed cover-to-cover with fascinating and inspiring stories about the researchers, entrepreneurs, doctors, patients, investors, and others who really believe that human beings can live healthy, productive lives to age 150, 200, or even forever. If that sounds hokey, buy the book, and be convinced otherwise! You will find yourself not only rooting for the crazy characters who are trying to cure cancer, grow replacement organs in a lab, discover/develop "longevity pills," and even upload your consciousness to the cloud, but actually believing that those things may be possible—in our lifetime!This book is easy to read, even for people like me, with no real scientific background ("I laughed, I cried!") I like that it also addresses head-on the ethics of long-life (worries about overpopulation, wealth disparity, power-hoarding, etc) in general as well as the ethics of specific areas like genetic editing and stem-cell therapy. The "bonus chapter" with practical longevity tips for what you can do now doesn't have anything particularly new to those who know this field, but even if you are already health/longevity-minded, it's a good review, with a very clear explanation about how/why fasting and vigorous exercise, etc support longevity. The best part of this book for me is that I now have endless conversation starters/ fascinating stories to tell: The kid who lived and (even played basketball) for over one year without a heart...the transgender woman who is creating replacement lungs from pigs...the geneticist who is bringing the woolly mammal back from extinction...the little girl who had a medicine developed JUST for her...the permanently paralyzed surfer who went from being suicidal to walking again...and so on, and so on, and so on...!

Learned new things going on and some that I can apply. Promising things ahead.I will adopt some. Wishing I was a little younger but still will be grateful for many ideas.

As a fan of living longer and healthier, I've been following Sergey Young on social media for a while, specifically on LinkedIn. His articles are insightful and helpful for those who are seeking to improve their physical and mental abilities so when I saw that he was writing a book I was very interested. So I pre-ordered it a few weeks ago and received my copy yesterday.I've read 2 chapters the first day I received the book and am looking forward to finishing it. There are a lot of actionable items that will help anyone be healthier today BUT more importantly his vision of the future of longevity science is very exciting and encouraging.

It is a fascinating exploration of how advancements in biotech, AI, and regenerative medicine could extend human life. Young's accessible analysis offers a hopeful and inspiring look at the future of longevity and health. This book is a must-read for anyone interested in the potential of science and technology to enhance and prolong life.

This book has all the reasons why we all will live to 200 years of age in the future. After reading this book, I have no doubt that one day technology will be so advanced that living to 200 would be considered completey normal. We would have nano robots to scan and monitor our blood, 3D printed organs and hi-tech beds designed to give us the exact hours of deep delta wave sleep that we precisely need.

A very insightful view of the near and far few of longevity. Sergey is very experienced in the field and I’ve followed his presentations on several formats. He has gathered knowledge of healthy ageing from across the world for this book and summarised it really well. Whether you agree or not with some of the mid and long term medical developments mentioned, they are being worked on by organisations across the world and many will happen. That can only help mankind over time. Although a longevity advocate, he also provides a balanced view of the ethical effects on societies. On a personal level, it’s simple, follow his advise, and you’ll have a healthier life, that leads to a longer happier one. It’s a book to read over and over again.

Sergey does an amazing job summarizing the scientific achievements of the past few years in the longevity space and what we could expect in the near and long term horizons in terms of innovation. He also addresses the consequences of a potential human immortality with its impact on population growth, societies, etc...Read it over the week-end, strongly recommend to anyone interested in the space or willing to challenge himself/herself on the future of humanity.