The Frontiers of Longevity
2025 mission for Live Longer World: Early glimpse into promising longevity science
Hi, I’m Aastha, and welcome to Live Longer World, where I interview scientists researching the frontiers of longevity science and write about health & longevity practices.
Live Longer World Mission:
Live Longer World has a two-pronged mission:
To provide information on the science of longevity through essays and interviews with scientists.
To provide practical longevity tips.
Keeping in mind this mission, I want to give you a glimpse into what is to come in 2025.
Information on the Science of longevity:
Over the years, as I’ve explored the science of longevity through my podcast interviews with scientists, I’ve realized that there are areas of biology that are promising but underexplored for various reasons I’ll touch upon in my future posts. Many of these underexplored areas could be extremely promising to longevity therapies in the future. If we are to advance longevity, we need to seriously study some of these fruitful areas which I call the “frontiers of biology and longevity”.
In 2024, almost all my podcasts have been related to exploring the frontiers of longevity – bioelectricity, looking beyond the genes, the atavistic theory of cancer. I hope to continue this in 2025. The problem with the podcast circuit is that too often people discuss what has already been discussed on a 100 other podcasts. I’d rather not do that and instead want to bring you fresh, underexplored, but promising information, giving you an early glimpse of where biology and longevity science are headed.
Longevity lifestyle practices like exercise, sleep, clean food, and even fringe ones, are incredible and as you all know I’m a huge proponent of them. However, sadly, these practices alone won’t significantly extend our lifespans or cure cancer and neurodegenerative diseases. For that, we need to advance the science of longevity. I recognize that not everyone likes to geek out on the science when there may not yet be practical takeaways. However, there are others who like to expand their knowledge of the underlying science of longevity that will take us down the path of therapeutics. Hence, my goal with Live Longer World is to make this science of longevity as accessible and interesting as possible, without dumbing it down. This might mean that some interviews are a little more technical than others, but it’s because I respect that caliber of my listeners, and now with tools like ChatGPT, it’s easier than ever to understand some of the more technical parts.
Practical longevity tips
I will continue to occasionally write posts on practical longevity tips like My 2024 longevity products or Blood biomarkers not covered by insurance, or do podcasts like how Glyphosate in Food is Killing us. However, the honest truth is that the biggest health benefits come from a few big buckets like exercise, sleep, clean food, mental health, which I’ve already written about, and to keep harping on them is not only unnecessary, but disrespectful to your time as a reader.
The job of health influencers is to keep churning content and hence they have to present details to you like it’s the most serious issue in the health space. There is no dearth of videos like “This one hack changed my sleep” and while they might not be wrong, they often don’t provide any new or very relevant information. To be clear, there is nothing wrong with health overoptimization. In fact, I too love to engineer the little details many times, but they’re secondary to the big buckets, and again they won’t solve the big diseases like cancer.
Live Longer World will write about longevity tips when (1) I genuinely think they might be relevant, and (2) I always only write about what I practice, so I have skin in the game. In so doing, I hope to not spam you with irrelevant or repetitive information.
Looking forward to 2025
As I said, my focus will be on exploring the scientific frontiers of longevity and biology, while occasionally writing on practical longevity tips. I’ll do this through essays, as well as interviews with scientists.
If we want to live healthier and longer lives, and be free of diseases like cancer, we have to advance the science of longevity, especially the underrated areas. My goal is to not keep this science hidden inside labs or dense scientific papers, and instead spark the joy of biology in everyone. Let’s make longevity cool. And let’s Live Longer World.
To living healthier & longer,
Very nice! Keep up the good work and looking forward to seeing more of your work :)