LEVITY

LEVITY is a newsletter and a podcast offering high-quality, science-informed editorial content focused on longbio, aging science and unlimited healthy lifespan.

[LEVITY @reachlevity]

LEVITY is shaping the conversation that will take us to longevity escape velocity. Subscribe here: https://t.co/4cz5znKjr0

[The Longevity Initiative @longevityinit]

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[Karl Pfleger @KarlPfleger]

Happy holidays: The https://t.co/E7jsiKu6i6 table is now fully updated thanks to the work of
@Mengyuan_CAI_.

5 new podcasts added including Free Radicals (w/ @teleodaniel & @EricDai_BioE), @DcodLongevity, @reachlevity, & @LRMpodcast.

[Linus Petersson @LinusPeters]

Excellent as always, Patrick is a shining example of a pro longevity philosopher

[Pump Science @pumpdotscience]

attention can fuel scientific breakthroughs

[Linus Petersson @LinusPeters]

Crazy times :)

[Peter Ottsjö @peterottsjo]

A few weeks ago, Vitalik Buterin accidentally sent a longevity experiment into the stratosphere.
In our latest LEVITY episode, we sit down with @pumpdotscience founder @benjileibo and drug dev @LinusPeters to unpack the full story - what actually happened, and what it revealed about crypto-powered science.

Oh, and this episode also marks the debut of our new Death-o-Meter. To see what that is, watch the full episode on our Youtube channel.
https://t.co/MFvNdDl7us

[Peter Ottsjö @peterottsjo]

Our latest guest on the LEVITY podcast, Felix Werth, has a sad story to tell.

Felix has spent years approaching strangers - thousands and thousands of them - across Germany, gathering the signatures required for his rejuvenation party to even appear on the ballot.

His message was straightforward: life is good. Aging - the slow, guaranteed descent toward death - is a medical problem we can and should solve. But people looked past him. Their focus was locked on the economy, immigration, or whatever else got them riled up on social media.

The threat that will actually end their lives? They didn’t want to hear about it.

Felix says most treated him like a nuisance: “I want to save their life and they just treat me like I'm just somebody who annoys them, you know. And this was psychologically for me very difficult.”

The strain eventually caught up with him. After years of rejection on the street, he saw that the constant stress was eroding his own health faster than his activism could improve anyone else’s.

So he stepped back, regrouped, and redirected his energy into Fix Aging AI - a startup where he’s doing something he actually enjoys again, programming, and applying new AI tools to design enzymes that might one day clear out the cellular damage of aging.

Listening to Felix, one is reminded of the familiar split within the longevity world. Some believe the path forward begins with persuasion: if we can change how people think about aging, then political pressure, funding, and momentum will build. Others argue the reverse - that minds won’t shift until we show real, working rejuvenation therapies, and that arguing with the public before that point is wasted effort.
Felix’s story is a concrete example of that tension.

Show notes and links to the episode below. https://t.co/4Cf42z3QHv

[Peter Ottsjö @peterottsjo]

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[Pump Science @pumpdotscience]

first article just published in @reachlevity

huge thanks to @peterottsjo for the feature

thread below

https://t.co/8Y6HwYdO6W

[Peter Ottsjö @peterottsjo]

Yes, it’s happening: LEVITY and @pumpdotscience are partnering!

Longevity research shouldn’t move at the pace of the old system. So we’re joining forces to make decentralized longevity research easier to follow, easier to understand, and impossible to ignore.

If you want to stay on top of what's happening in DeSci now's the time to subscribe to the LEVITY newsletter!

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[Peter Ottsjö @peterottsjo]

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[Dr Singularity @Dr_Singularity]

‘Graceful aging’ is a coping mechanism. The truth is that aging is a slow, brutal dismantling of the body. If we want a better outcome, we need real rejuvenation, not euphemisms.

[Derya Unutmaz, MD @DeryaTR_]

That’s exactly right! 💯

[Peter Ottsjö @peterottsjo]

Saying ”aging gracefully” is denial. We all age terribly and then we die. That is the truth, whatever you tell yourself. The only real solution is comprehensive repair and rejuvenation. And eventually to not age at all.

[Peter Ottsjö @peterottsjo]

Next stop: longevity escape velocity.

[Aubrey de Grey @aubreydegrey]

Very well deserved. Lada's approach would have been entirely impractical even a few years ago, in my view, but with the rapid improvements in tools for both identificication and delivery of tissue-specific epigenetic edits, its time has come. Congrats! https://t.co/aA9CRBNPQT

[Agingdoc🩺Dr David Barzilai🔔MD PhD MS MBA DipABLM @agingdoc1]

MAHA says “reverse aging.”

Their budget says otherwise | Editorial by LEVITY

🗣️"My favourite U.S. agency is @ARPA_H. A high-risk, high-reward shop mandated to go after “moonshot” health problems and build transformative biomedical tools...."

🔗https://t.co/6pjm7PxdMg

[Opinions by @reachlevity c/o @DrPatrickLinden & @peterottsjo; The opinions expressed in this article are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of this channel. The channel focuses on sharing material circulating in the longevity space and encourages thoughtful, respectful discussion.]

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[David Wood @dw2]

LEVITY is top-notch reading

[Linus Petersson @LinusPeters]

Superb reporting on longevity