Finalist Teams Awarded $1 Million in XPrize Healthspan Contest to Transform Healthy Aging

The XPrize Healthspan—which will split $101 million among teams developing therapeutics to restore muscle, cognitive, and immune function in older adults—has named 10 teams receiving $1 million each.

(XPrize announced the finalists for its XPrize Healthspan competition | XPrize)

The XPrize Healthspan competition has named its top 20 finalist groups that will submit their aging intervention therapies for human trial testing.

Aging &amp; Longevity

Model: Male Wistar rats 
Dosage: 1.5 g/kg/day of orally administered glycine for 5 months

Glycine, an amino acid shown to extend the lifespan of mice, moderately extends the lifespan of flies and counters brain and muscle degeneration in aged rats. 

Russia’s $27 Billion Bet on Beating Aging—Hype or Hope?

With an ambitious goal of conquering aging, Russia is investing $26 to $28 billion in a national health initiative.

(Russian leader, Vladimir Putin | RBC-Ukraine)

Elon Musk Says Figuring Out How to Reverse Aging ‘Highly Likely’

The business magnate and SpaceX CEO, Elon Musk, now believes that death is a kind of engineering bug that determined aging scientists can eventually fix.

The high-profile American entrepreneur, Elon Musk, now says figuring out human lifespan extension is highly likely.

Participants: Adults over the age of 60
Dosage: 3,750 mg of niacin twice daily (after gradual dose increase), 150 mg of dihydroberberine twice daily, 50 mg of taxifolin (with 500 mg of vitamin C and 15 mg of zinc) twice daily, 50 mg of tocotrienols twice daily

A combination of supplements, including the NAD+ precursor nicotinic acid, improves cholesterol, allowing some participants to cease taking statins.  

Study conducted by Professor Emeritus Joseph Keenan, MD, at the University of Minnesota. 

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10 Finalist Teams Awarded $1 Million in XPrize Healthspan Contest to Transform Healthy Aging

Glycine Extends Life & Counters Brain and Muscle Degeneration, New Study Shows

Russia’s $27 Billion Bet on Beating Aging—Hype or Hope?

Elon Musk Says Figuring Out How to Reverse Aging ‘Highly Likely’

NAD+ Boosting Supplement Challenges Cholesterol-Lowering Statins in Anti-Aging Research