Wonderful advances in the field of medical science make possible to slow down aging process and live a long and healthy life. Here, I share with you, the facts and visions more eloquent than imaginations and amazing thoughts amounting to reality-pregnant-early-morning dreams. It may seem, but the presentation is not a fiction. Neither it is a bundle of concocted myths. Based on current state of scientific knowledge and gerontological research, it aims to provide answers to aging and longevity. Therefore, you are requested to read on. After all, the theme, ageing slowly and living longer, is of a prime interest to all of us.

1. Human Longevity
Concept and Options
Dr Vinod Nikhra
M.D., ICCN, PGCHM, FIMSA
Fellow Royal Society of Medicine
Bansal Multispeciality Hospital, Bhopal
8 December 2023

2. The Life Course
All Life-forms in the Universe pass through:
Birth – Growth – Aging – Death
And the Human Life is
No Exception.

3. Human Life
Life course and Life span
Developmental deficits at birth
Health - challenges and events
Longevity – QOL, Will-to-survive

4. Longevity views

5. Life should be Big
.. Not Long

6. The Life should be
Big and Long

7. The Life
should be
Healthy and
Long enough for
Fulfilment

8. Human Lifespan
*जीवेम शरदः शतम्।
(शुक्ल यजुवेद Chapter 36 मंञ 24)
Wishing a life of hundred years
*May you live until 120
- The Jewish toast to long life
*Sporadic cases of longer life
- Jeanne Louise Calment 122y 164d

9. Options for Longevity
Tracks –
*Normal Longevity
*Extreme Longevity
*Living forever

10. Achieving Normal Longevity
1. Retarding aging process
- Lifestyle and CR/CRAN
- Anti-oxidants
- Anti-aging formulations
2. Renewal of aging organs
- Allografts, Xenografts
- 3D Bioprinting

11. Life Extension Program (LEP)
- Can be seen as a plausible step in near future.
Step One: Taking advantage of existing knowledge for
slowing aging through interventions like CR, antioxidants
Step Two: Utilizing the advances in genetic engineering
including stem cell and biotechnology
Step Three: Use of future nanotechnology and artificial
intelligence revolution to repair mutations and other
defects due to aging at molecular and cellular
levels
- It is projected to go through three steps -

12. - Cryonics is practice of freezing a body immediately
after clinical death – Cryopreservation.
- It is speculative life support science that seeks to
preserve human life in a state that will be viable and
treatable by future medical advances.
- The concept is based on sophisticated understanding
of death called ‘information-theoretic death’ which
offers bridge to life in future.
The Suspended Life and Revival

13. Concepts for Cryonics - Clinical-Legal and Information-Theoretic Death

14. - The current medical and legal definition of death is
based on the cardiac arrest and the cessation of
electrical activity in the cerebral cortex.
- Whereas a person is dead according to information
theoretic criterion if memories, personality, and psyche
are destroyed, and the brain micro-structures encoding
memory and personality are so disrupted that it is no
longer possible to recover them.
- Thus, information-theoretic death is ‘absolute
irreversible death’ and not the
clinical death.

15. The cryopreservation in action

16. - The cryopreserved bodies are not irreversibly dead
as per the information-theoretic definition of death.
- They are kept indefinitely preserved in Dewar flask
filled with liquid N2 for anticipated damage reversal
in near future.
- The revival will be possible with future science
and technologies allowing cause of fatality to be
cured and repair organ damage due to aging
process.

17. Cryopreservation facilities -
- Cryonics Institute
‘A Second Chance at Life’
EMAIL: INFO@CRYONICS.ORG
- Alcor Life Extension Foundation
World’s Leader in Cryonics Est.1972
Scottsdale, AZ 85260
- KrioRus, Brain Preservation Foundation,
American Cryonics Society, Life Extension
Society, etc.

18. Achieving Longevity
Final Tracks and Projections

19. Future Projections for Exponential Longevity, Damage repair, Rejuvenation and Revival

20. The Evolving Medical Science and Technologies

22. LinkedIn
Longevity
Research Group
Longevity.Technology
and other such projects
Discover the Latest Breakthroughs
in Aging Research

23. The Future of Immortality:
Remaking Life and Death in Contemporary Russia
by –
Anya Bernstein
Published by:
Princeton University Press
https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctvc77d3d
https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctvc77d3d

24. The Ultimate Aims of Aging Research
*Achieve healthy longevity
*Do away with Death
*Find ways to live forever.

25. Let us celebrate life!
Let us join this journey.

26. Thank you,
So much!