The Methuselah Foundation is a non-profit medical charity dedicated to extending healthy human They seek a cure for age-related disease, disability, suffering, and death.
According to the foundation's statement of purpose.
Aging is a thief that robs the world of its most precious resource, the wisdom and experience embodied in each human life, while placing increasing burdens on already strained healthcare systems. The application of technology to the diseases of the young has resulted in many more individuals surviving to enjoy life at ages rarely achieved in human history. It is now time to develop a new generation of medical therapies to cure the diseases emerging with longer life as a result of the biological aging process. The ultimate goal of the Foundation is nothing less than the defeat of age-related disease and the indefinite extension of the healthy human lifespan.
From About the Longeviity Meme: Aging is an enemy. It saps our strength, cripples and eventually kills us. The lack of information, advocacy and awareness of anti-aging and healthy life extension research is a terrible thing. Much of the general public thinks of aging as inevitable and natural, rather than as a medical condition that may one day be curable. Comparatively few people know that the effects of aging
The Life Extension Foundation is a nonprofit organization, whose long-range goal is the radical extension of the healthy human lifespan. In seeking to control aging, our objective is develop methods to enable us to live in health, youth and vigor for unlimited periods of time. The Life Extension Foundation was officially incorporated in 1980, but the founders have been involved in antiaging research since the 1960's. They provide a variety of advanced nutritional formulations.