Controversial anti-aging proponent Aubrey de Grey has started a new “Longevity Escape Velocity Foundation,” and is kicking off its first experiment, using a combination of therapies in an effort to radically extend the lives of middle-aged mice.

Aubrey de Grey has done a lot to promote the idea that aging and death are solvable problems – that the damage done over time by metabolic processes can be reversed, and that there’s a chance the first thousand-year-old human may already have been born.

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As a founder of the Methuselah Foundation and the SENS foundation, he’s convinced billionaires that anti-aging research can give them the only things they lack: time and youth – and as a consequence he’s raised hundreds of millions of dollars toward targeted research. Through decades’ worth of patient and eternally optimistic media appearances he’s attempted to shift the public consciousness around to the idea that aging and death needn’t be viewed as inevitable, just as a series of problems that are in the process of being solved.

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