The rise of healthspan as the dominant longevity concept (as it should)

It may be sponsored but this is a great collection of articles for a broad audience by Scientific American custom media (supported by Google Cloud, the Buck Institute for Research on Aging, Optispan, and Phenome Health):

⚡ Healthspan: The Science of Aging Well.

💡 While the dream of living forever seems to be tailor-made for the super-wealthy, healthspan is a much more appealing, democratic and ultimately productive concept: how to increase the number of years we live in good health. Diseases of aging are a major societal burden, so addressing them under the banner of healthspan makes sense for public as well as individual health. And if, say, Alzheimer's Disease can be conquered, the benefits will accrue to all.

▶️ This package of articles provides various angles on healthspan: what is it, how it affects genders differentially, the economics of a healthy aging population, and the role of social inequality among others. Complex topic with lots of ramifications and questions.

The authors include scientists I respect and admire, Eric Verdin (Buck), Lee Hood (Phenome Health and Buck), James Yurkovich (Phenome), Gordon Lithgow (Buck), Matt Kaeberlein (Optispan -and a founder of the Dog Aging Project), Morgan Levine (Altos Labs), Francesca Duncan (Northwestern University - The Feinberg School of Medicine), Scott Penberthy (Google), Andrew J Scott (London Business School and Ellison Institute of Technology Oxford), Lisa Simon, MD, DMD (Brigham and Women's Hospital), Robert Lee Kilpatrick (Sci Am and co-founder of Radical Health Foundation), with interviews of George Haddad (Optispan), Sajad Zalzala M.D. (AgelessRx), Peter Attia (himself and founder of 10Squared), Dr. Kara Fitzgerald.