title: Applied Healthspan engineering.
abstract: According to the Homeric Hymn to Aphrodite, when Eos asked Zeus for Tithonus to be granted immortality, she forgot to ask for eternal youth. Applied Healthspan Engineering (AHE) seeks to address this problem. All organisms have a minimal level of functional reserve required to sustain life that eventually declines to a point incompatible with survival at death. AHE seeks to maintain or restore optimal functional reserve of critical tissues and organs. Tissue reserve correlates with well being. Diet, physical exercise, and currently available small-molecule-based therapeutics may attenuate the rate of decline of specific organs or organ systems, but are unlikely to restore lost reserve. Inherent evolutionary-derived limitations in tissue homeostasis and cell maintenance necessitate the development of therapies to enhance regenerative processes and possibly replace whole organs or tissues. AHE supports the study of cell, tissue, and organ homeostatic mechanisms to derive new regenerative and tissue replacement therapies to extend the period of human health.
authors.affiliation: Panorama Research Institute and Regenerative Sciences Institute, Sunnyvale, California 94089, USA. jwlarrick@gmail.com
authors.forename: James W
authors.initials: JW
authors.lastname: Larrick
authors.forename: Andrew
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Mendelsohn
mesh_terms: D000367:Age Factors; D000375:Aging / Q000378:metabolism / Q000473:pathology / Q000502:physiology*; D000825:Animal Structures / Q000378:metabolism / Q000502:physiology; D000818:Animals; D057005:Bioengineering / Q000379:methods* / Q000639:trends; D004734:Energy Metabolism / Q000502:physiology; D006304:Health Status; D006801:Humans; D008136:Longevity / Q000235:genetics / Q000502:physiology*; D008954:Models, Biological; D011788:Quality of Life; D012038:Regeneration / Q000502:physiology
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