Index of topics related to life extension explained

Following is a list of topics related to life extension:

A

• ACE inhibitor
• Actuarial escape velocity
• Adenosine triphosphate (ATP)
• Advanced Cell Technology Corporation
• Aerobic exercise
• Age-adjusted life expectancy
• Age-Related Eye Disease Study
• Age-Related Macular Degeneration
• Aging
• Aging and memory
• Aging-associated diseases
• Aging brain
• Aging population
• Alcor Life Extension Foundation
• Alternative medicine
• American Aging Association
• American Academy of Anti-Aging Medicine (A4M)
• Amyloid
• Amyloid plaque
• Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), e.g., Lou Gehrig's disease
• Antagonistic Pleiotropy
• Antioxidant
  • Polyphenol antioxidant
• Antisense therapy
• Apoptosis
• Atherosclerosis
• ATP (adenosine triphosphate)
• Autoimmune disease

B

• Biodemography
• Biodemography of human longevity
• Bioethics
• Biological clock
• Biogerontology
• Biological immortality
• Biomarkers of aging
• Biotechnology
• Brain–computer interface

C

• Caloric restriction mimetic
• Caloric restriction
• CR Society International
• Cell replacement therapy
• Cholinergic
• Clone
• Cloning
  • Human cloning
  • Therapeutic cloning
• Club of Rome
• Cockayne's syndrome
• Cognitive enhancement
• Compensation law of mortality
• Complementary and alternative medicine
• Cross-link
• Cyborg
• Cynthia Kenyon
• Cryobiology
• Cryonics
• Cryopreservation
• Cryoprotectant

D

• Daily values
• de Grey, Dr. Aubrey
  • De Grey Technology Review controversy
• Demopoulos M.D., Harry B.
• Dendrite
• DHT (dihydrotestosterone)
• Dietary supplement
• Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act of 1994
• Dihydrotestosterone (DHT)
• DNA (Deoxyribonucleic acid)
  • Mitochondrial DNA
• DNA damage theory of aging
• DNA repair
• Dolly the sheep
• Dopaminergic
• Drexler, K. Eric

E

• Ending Aging, a 2007 book which describes Aubrey de Grey's biomedical proposal for defeating aging (i.e. SENS).
• Endocrine system
• Engineered negligible senescence
• Engines of creation
• Error catastrophe
• Eugenics
• Eugeroic
• Evolution of ageing
• Exercise
  • Aerobic exercise
• Existential risk
• Extropy

F

• • Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
• Free radical
  • Superoxide radical
  • Hydroxyl radical
• Free-radical theory of aging
• Full Genome Sequencing
• Futures studies
• Futurology

G

• Gene therapy
  • Pharmacological Gene Therapy
• Genetic code
• Genetic engineering
• Genetically modified organism
  • Genetics of aging Genomics
• Geriatrics
• Geron Corporation
• Gerontology
• Geroprotector
• Gobel, David
• Gompertz-Makeham law of mortality
• Grossman, Terry
• Growth hormone (GH)

H

• Harman, Denham
• Hayflick, Leonard
• Hayflick limit
• Health
• Health effects
• Healthy diet
• Healthy eating
• Heart Disease
• HeLa
• Hormesis
• Hormone replacement therapy
• Human cloning
• Human enhancement
• Human genetic engineering
• Human Genome Project
• Humanism
• Hypoxia

I

• Immortal DNA strand hypothesis
• Immortality
• Immortalist Society
• Indefinite lifespan
• Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies

K

• Kent, Saul
• Kenyon, Cynthia
• Kirkwood, Thomas
• Klotho gene
• Kübler-Ross model
• Kurzweil, Ray

L

• Lacks, Henrietta
• Life expectancy
• Life extension
  • Life Extension Advocacy Foundation
• Life Extension Foundation
• Life Extension Institute
• Limits to Growth
• Lipofuscin
• List of aging processes
• List of long-living organisms
• List of health and fitness magazines
• Longevity
• Longevity genes

M

• Malthusian Catastrophe
• Malthusian Growth Model
• Malthusianism
• Malthus, Thomas
• Maximum life span
• Medawar, Peter
• Megadose
• Megadosing
• Megavitamin therapy
• Methuselah Foundation
• Methuselah Mouse Prize
• Mind transfer (mind uploading)
• Mitohormesis
• Molecular engineering
• Molecular nanotechnology
• Monoamine oxidase (MAO)
• Morphological freedom
• Mortality rate

N

• Nanomedicine
• Nanotechnology
• National Institute on Aging
• Neurite
• Neurochemical
• Neurodegenerative disease
• Neuroendocrine theory of aging
• Neurofibrillary tangle
• Neurotrophic factor
• Neurovitrification
• Nootropic
• Norepinephrin (noradrenaline)
• NSAID
• Nutrient
• Nutrition
• Nutritional supplement

O

• Old age
• Organ transplant
• Orthomolecular medicine
• Overpopulation
• Oxidation (redox)
• Oxidative stress

P

• Paleolithic diet
• Parkinson's disease
• Patients' Bill of Rights
• Pauling, Linus
• Pearl, Raymond
• Pearson, Durk
• Pharmacological Gene Therapy
• Polyphenol antioxidant
• Pollution
• Population control
• Population growth
• Population momentum
• Posthuman
• Predictive medicine
• Pregnenolone
• Prescription drugs (prices in the US prices)
• Prevention Magazine
• Prevention
• Preventive medicine
• Printable organs
• Pro-aging trance
• Procreative beneficence
• Progeria
• Progeroid syndromes
• Programmed cell death
  • Apoptosis (Type I cell death)
  • Autophagy (a.k.a. cytoplasmic, or Type II cell death))
• Programmed obsolescence
  • Prostatitis
• Pro-oxidant

Q

• Quercetin

R

• Rath, Matthias
• Raw foodism
• Reactive oxygen species
• Reliability theory
• Reliability theory of aging
• Redox (oxidation)
• Reference Daily Intake
• Regeneration
• Regenerative medicine
• Rejuvenation
• Reliability theory of aging and longevity
• Reprogenetics
• Resveratrol
• Ristow, Michael
• RNA

S

• Safety
  • Occupational safety and health
• SAGE KE
• Senescence
• Senility
• Senolytic
• SENS Foundation
• Shaw, Sandy
• Sierra Sciences
• Sleep deprivation
• Sports medicine
• Stem cell
• Stem cell treatments
• Stone, Irwin
• Strategies for engineered negligible senescence
• Superoxide dismutase (SOD)
• Superoxide

T

• Technological determinism
• Technological evolution
• Technological singularity
• Technology assessment
• Techno-progressivism
• Techno-utopianism
• Telomere
• Therapeutic cloning
• Theories of aging
  • Antagonistic pleiotropy theory of aging
  • Disposable soma theory of aging
  • DNA damage theory of aging
  • Free-radical theory
  • Glycation theory of aging
  • Inflammation theory of aging
  • Neuroendocrine theory of aging
  • Order to disorder theory of aging
  • Rate of living theory
  • Reliability theory of aging and longevity
  • Somatic mutation theory of aging
• Thiel, Peter
• Timeline of senescence research
• Tissue engineering
• Transhumanism

U

• Unageing
• Uniform Determination of Death Act
• United States Senate Agriculture Subcommittee on Research, Nutrition, and General Legislation

V

• Vascular disease
• Vitamin
• Cryopreservation#Vitrification

W

• Walford M.D., Dr. Roy Lee
• Weismann, August
• Werner syndrome
• West, Dr. Michael D.
• Williams, George C.

X

• Xeroderma pigmentosum

Z