These days the forum "Trends of Healthy Longevity" is taking place.

Deputy Prime Minister, 2 ministers, 10+ academicians.

❓Top topics in the program that raise doubts about extending human life:
Biotechnologies of regenerative biomedicine: from personalization to scaling
The direction is promising, but in terms of clinical life extension in humans, the evidence is still limited and heterogeneous.

Genetic and pharmacogenetic technologies for maintaining a healthy life
Useful for personalizing therapy of individual drugs, but direct “life extension” in humans is still weakly confirmed.

Nutriciology and dietary supplements: modern solutions for the nation's health
For certain substances, there is data on prospects, but the general class of dietary supplements and nutraceuticals gives heterogeneous results; effects are often overestimated. No questions about healthy eating.

Health technologies: artificial intelligence and digital future
AI is useful as an analysis tool, but is not a reliable method of life extension; the effect depends on the specific task and the user's intelligence.

Engineering of healthy longevity
This is too broad: lifestyle factors, control of age-associated chronic diseases are available without “engineering”.

✅Top topics worth attention:
Formula of effectiveness: nutrition and movement as the basis of a healthy life
The most evidence-based block: lifestyle, physical activity and nutrition are basic interventions to reduce the risk of chronic diseases and extend healthy longevity

Longevity plate / posture / balance / sleep hygiene / light hygiene
Sleep, physical activity and behavioral factors have a strong and reproducible evidence base for improving health and functional age

Child health protection: health of future generations
Prevention at an early age is one of the most reliable ways to reduce the burden of chronic diseases later in life

Biology of aging: from research to results
This is the scientific foundation of the entire agenda; the mechanisms of aging and healthy aging are still poorly described, and there are no methods of intervention at all. That is what fundamental science is for - spending resources in exchange for the probability of finding something.

✳ What I would like to see in the program:

Quality control and food safety
Are the claims of trembling old people that products used to be healthier true? See an atlas of problems with chemical and heavy metal contamination across the country.

Environment.
How to make where we live and work healthy. Sources of problems, monitoring, means of purification.

Mental comfort and motivation.
You can talk for hours about basic things like routine, nutrition, physical activity. But if there is no motivation in life, there are all signs of depression, post-traumatic stress disorder, all efforts will be wasted.

Medicinal plants.
Russia is one of the richest countries in terms of diversity of natural sources of unique bioresources. There are thousands of unexplored substances there. And the modern base of laboratory, chemical analysis, approaches to planning clinical studies gives grounds to start immediately.

@drakarasev