A 2-month longevity gathering in Berkeley, with healthy coliving, coworking and 8 conferences during April 4 - May 29, Vitalist Bay is the San Francisco Bay Area’s first longevity zone, uniting thousands of pioneers across longevity, biotech, AI, biohacking, wellness and policy at an unprecedented scope leading humanity’s effort to extend human healthy lifespan.
Joseph Everett… is he going to tell everyone how 200 LDL is healthy and seed oils is the number one cause of disease in the U.S?
Michael Baran
Pfizer Ventures
They must know about Rapamune.
Pfizer might be uniquely positioned among all the Big Pharma companies to enter the longevity market since they have free advertising for all the non-generic longevity users of Rapamycin for quite some time now. It’s kind of stupid, but maybe it’ll help a bit.
It had good energy (it’s nice to be immersed in all of it, at least once in a while). It also came at the end of the Foresight Vision Weekend. I made the request that everyone attending should get access to o1 pro [if everyone wants to build off of the share energy, people should have at least access to shared compute - this INCLUDES some access to DeepOrigin/latch.bio/etc] so people can run sample longevity-relevant pipelines off shared compute…
Aubrey de Grey, his fiance, Michael Vassar, Laura Minquini, Rob Sheko, Julius Ritter, Julie, Amit Deshwar, Danila Immortalist, and a stanford american studies major (who studies SV bay area culture/grouphouses) were all there. Rob later brought a bunch of the group to aevitas house. Everyone seemed to agree that Rob would be the best organizer of all of this.
It still had a large proportion of people who “talk more than do” (longevity groupies) rather than core scientists you’d see at BAAM (most of the retro.bio ppl at foresight didn’t stay on for the event). Maybe some of them are important (lots of them at zuzalu/vitalia) but I really do wonder if they’ll get enough of the serious scientists. “Manhattan Project for longevity” is way too hypey for how much investment they really generated (or are realistically capable of generating)
Some ideas I would also include: juvenescence ketone esters as snacks…
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Also mentioned was the new Frontier Tower SF Pop-Up · Luma that’s coming right before Lighthaven.
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Inside an anti-aging dance party at a private club in Marin happened too
Um there’s edge esmeralda after this.