From Longevity for a Few to a Healthier Future for All

Frank Fitzpatrick 12/13/2023

Helping us optimize our healthspan and actualize our potential is something thought leaders have been exploring for thousands of years.

Over the past few years, however, the COVID pandemic, burgeoning mental health crisis, and the desire to live longer have escalated the interest and investment in new technology and products for mental and physical well-being, optimal performance, regenerative biology, preventive health, and that age-old field of human aspiration: Longevity.

But where does Longevity fit into new solutions for personalized and optimal health?

Just as NASA’s development of once-futuristic and niche technological advances spun off advances in beneficial everyday consumer technology, Longevity’s daring to explore therapies and solutions that lie beyond the frontier of traditional medicine will spin off new discoveries for millions of people to stay healthier and live longer.

While there are many more cures and solutions scattered across the galaxy of researchers and developers than the current healthcare system wants us to see, the longevity movement is demanding that we bring forth the wealth of knowledge and opportunities from behind the silos of research institutions, private labs, and alternative and integrative clinics around the world.

And how do we do this?

Through:
Multidisciplinary collaboration.
A commitment to innovation.
A shared vision for a healthier humanity.

In honor of those working together to create this healthier future for all, I want to give a special thanks to a few of my Health & Longevity colleagues who invited me to join them for an incredible collection of gatherings in the San Francisco Bay Area last week:

THANK YOU to Michael Snyder and Ariel Ganz from Stanford’s Health Innovation Lab for bringing together leaders at Stanford and the Salesforce tower to address the out-of-control Mental Health pandemic. Among others, we were joined by NextMed Health CEO & Exponential Medicine Founder for Singularity University, Daniel Kraft, MD; Harvard’s Neurometabolic health visionary, Dr. Christopher Palmer; California Surgeon General, Diana Ramos, musical activist Aloe Blacc, and Apple’s VP of Health, Sumbul Desai.

THANK YOU to Allison Duettman and the Foresight community for taking us into the future of Healthspan, BioTech, and Longevity at the Foresight Institute’s 2023 Vision Weekend. We were joined by another collection of leading researchers and visionaries, including a number of personal colleagues: Stanford’s Vittorio Sebastiani, PhD; MIT’s Ed Boyden, PhD; TransTech Founder Nichol Bradford; and all-star neuroscientists Adam Gazzalay, PhD (UCSF) and David Eagleman, PhD (Stanford).

And finally, THANK YOU to Eric Verdin and the Buck Institute for bringing us together for their premier conference on the frontier of longevity and aging research, where Michael Snyder, Vittorio Sebastiani, Allison Duettman, and I were joined by another collection of brilliant and collaborative minds from around the globe – including Aubrey de Grey, PhD; Luigi Ferrucci, MD, PhD (Science Director for NIH-National Institute on Aging), and Nir Barzilai, MD (Einstein Institute) – all looking to learn from one another about more effective ways to advance the field of Longevity, create meaningful collaborations, and help humanity achieve greater Health and Wellbeing.

One thing all the Longevity and Health experts in these gatherings could agree upon – from the researchers to the entrepreneurs – is that we have a common Moonshot that is within reach and well worth joining together to achieve: Increasing human healthspan and helping all people experience a healthier, happier life on planet Earth.

By Frank Fitzpatrick

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