Several activities have kept me away from posting blogs in the last few months.- most notably a Cuban vacation in March and a trip in May to Toronto to attend the University of Toronto Chancellor's Circle Medal Ceremony at their Spring Reunion 2015 where I received a medal for my 60th year of graduation. I graduated from the UofT in 1955 with a doctorate from the Department of Botany.
At this ceremony one of the recipients received a medal celebrating his 80th anniversary. However the main factor which kept me away from my blog are the extensive internet searches I have been doing gathering information for the search for the elusive fountain of youth.
The talk was given on June 4, 2015 to a group of seniors called the Sons of Ukrainian Pioneers or SOUP. This was just 2 days after my return to Winnipeg and also my 88th birthday. Indeed while in Toronto, my daughter devoted considerably time editing my presentation.This may account for the many praises I received both at this SOUP meeting and later at phone calls to my home.
However my restless character is such that I am continuing my internet searches, gathering even more information on aging. I am especially passionate about the topic of how to extend the maximum life span (MLS) beyond its current 120 years.
By extending MLS we are not curing the degenerative diseases which are currently our major killers, just delaying their onset and their cause of premature death.
One gerontologist put it very bluntly: "... instead of suffering a heart attack or stroke at age 65 on the golf course, you suffer the same fate at 110 on a space shuttle to the moon."
The same would apply to the other degenerative diseases like cancer, diabetes and dementia.
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