For as long as I remember, I’ve had an active lifestyle – a choice I made almost subconsciously. In fact, I hadn’t put much thought into the implications of pursuing a healthy lifestyle, until 2006, when I read a book that changed my mindset forever. I picked up Ray Kurzweil’s book, Fantastic Voyage: Live Long Enough to Live Forever, out of casual curiosity, little knowing that it would profoundly alter my perception of the human lifespan and the idea of ageing. I knew Kurzweil as a well-respected scientist and inventor with a phenomenal track record, but reading his book was truly an eye-opening moment for me.
I was deeply struck by the idea that ageing could be viewed as a disease – one that many leading scientists in the field of longevity research were working to cure. The possibility of a dramatic extension in the human lifespan piqued my interest, and from that moment on, I began to follow the exciting developments in the field.
When I first heard of Human Longevity Inc, co-founded by one of the leaders of the first human genome draft sequencing project, I was excited by the enormous potential being unlocked by global organisations. In 2015, I had the…
