@RapAdmin is definitely going Friday and maybe the weekend.
If that panel with Kaeberlein happens, that is worth rush hour! (The Saturday appeal for me was he is speaking that day, but now that he’s throwing out Friday, I’m all ears… keep us updated because that panel would make the drive a slam dunk for me).
@jnorm which day will you be there… just fri or sat too?
As @Beth mentioned, Bryan is looking good… I would say he looks pretty “natural” (especially compared to some of the other photos I’ve seen of him in the past). Nothing a few hundred thousand in PRP, Laser, Tixel, etc. can’t bring to everyone I’m sure.
I’ll try to upload more photos I took of the event, but some highlights for me were the following:
I ran into Andrew Steele at the registration table in the morning, he’s the UK guy who covers the longevity field a great deal, talks with a lot of press, and published a book a few years ago “Ageless”. Ageless – Andrew Steele
He’s working on starting a new organization / think tank like group that would focus on how to make longevity more mainstream. I like the idea. I’m sure we’ll hear more.
I ran into Irina Conboy as she sat and had breakfast. I asked her about her thoughts on the Exosome research and Harold Katcher work, and the potential for these to be the beneficial blood factor that could significantly help in rejuvenation. She was highly dismissive of this area and said she’s seen no compelling research on this topic. All small, poorly controlled efforts that she put very little value on.
Interestingly she says her company (the aging clock company) is not just focused on the clocks. They have a compound going into clinical trials that is targeted at removing the deleterious factors in the blood that contribute to aging. She feels that its the negative factors in old blood that are a big contributor to accelerated aging in the elderly, and thinks that by adding drugs/compounds that neutralize some of these factors, there could be significant benefits. I found this a very interesting like of research and look forward to hearing more.
Kevin Caldwell, the president of Ossium had a fascinating talk.
They get donated bone marrow and mesenchymal stem cells (from people in car accidents, etc) and use them to help people who have leukemia, and also organ donation recipients. They are working towards using the bone marrow and stem cells to do “immune system resets”, and in organ transplant recipients they believe that if they combine this immune system reset (using cells from the same donor that the organ is coming from) they can get it so that there is no rejection of the new organ and the person can live without having to take anti-rejection drugs (immunosuppressant drugs) to avoid rejection of these new organs.
They are also planning on targeting the aging market with a similar strategy of providing these “immune system resets”, using the donated bone marrow / stem cells (using serial expansion of the banked cells to get much greater quantities than could be provided just from donation). The thinking here is that you could reset the immune system in older people by using stem cells / bone marrow cells from younger people.
Also, I was pleasantly surprised, and quite impressed, to see how young everyone at the conference was. I’m so jealous that I didn’t start at their age!!! I think there might have been one other person there my age, and then no one even close!!!
I’m just trying to figure out my schedule. Perhaps @jnorm could record it on his phone like I did yesterday for the BJ talk. I use an app called “Recorder” on my android phone.
Yes - me too, it was great to meet up with other rapamycin forum members. We sat together and talked all afternoon. It was great to get to know people better.
I am sure he’s had lasers etc, but yes, there is a chance there could have been surgery too. I hadn’t noticed any of the signs that you’ve seen, but it can be done these days with zero evidence, so…
I got there a little late this morning and Tim Urban had already started talking… but I recorded what I could. Here is about 24 minutes of his talk. I think I missed about 10 minutes. I talked to someone who did record the entire thing, so I hope to have that soon and will post the full talk later if I can get it.
