FAQ

Q: Should aging be considered a disease?

A: Most people think that aging is not a disease because everybody ages. Therefore it is considered 'natural'. Not everything that is natural is also good (earthquakes, dementia etc.) but it is a popular rationalisation of death. Molecularly, however, the very same processes occur in aging and disease. Moreover, most of the age-related diseases will occur if one lives long enough. The deposits that occur in Alzheimer's disease for example gradually reach a pathological level in all of us! Hence, the main reason to think aging is different from diseases is that it allows us to conveniently accept that aging/death is natural/good.

For further analysis of this important yet touchy subject please see the following:

Is Aging a Disease? A Conversation with Cynthia Kenyon http://www.ucsf.edu/science-cafe/conversations/kenyon2/

Is Aging Itself A "Disease"? By Anne C. on her blog "Existence is wonderful" http://www.existenceiswonderful.com/2008/05/is-aging-itself-disease.html

Q: What makes information suitable for Rejuvepedia ?

This is a good question. If you find information about reversing heart disease or erectile dysfunction it is suitable for rejuvepedia. If you find information about regrowing lost fingers it is suitable for Rejuvepedia. If you find information about increasing your lung capacity or even making you hamstring muscles bigger it is suitable for Rejuvepedia. If you know how to improve your hearing and vision or do exercises to improve your posture it is suitable for Rejuvepedia.

What we really want is articles about rejuvenation of every organ and system of the human body. We start with practical approaches that are available to everyone e.g. diet and exercise and we move to more advanced techniques that may require medical products and or specialised facilities and trained professionals. We also want to know how to restore the cells within these tissues to a youthful state. We want to know how to get rid of bacterial biofilms within human tissues.

When considering this we consider the genome, the proteome and the microbiome. You need to have genetic integrity, you need to have restored proteome hormesis, you need to have Mineral Homeostasis and you need to have symbiosis in the microbiome.

We even aim to help people with genetic conditions that appear to have nothing do with aging but we consider these to be a form of aging that is passed down from parents to offspring.

Q: How can Rejuvepedia handle a subject as complicated as human health care?

Simplicity is a result of insight. For example: if you think everything in the sky revolves around the Earth, then your algorithms to describe the motion of planets get very complex, epicycles within epicycles. If you were an ancient Greek you would call it essential complexity. But given the insight that the earth and other planets all revolve around the sun, you can describe planetary motion completely with very simple equations. The same thing applies to writing software. Whenever you find yourself in a complicated mess, take a step back, and try to figure out how to change your perspective. Often you'll discover there's a more elegant way to make it work. Instead of piling on EpiCycles, find a new worldview - DennisPeterson

I couldn't find a better way of expressing what I wanted to say more than that Dennis Peterson quote there. The reason modern medicine is so complex is because it is fundamentally flawed. Medicine that genuinely and actually works is likely to be actually much simpler than the form of medicine practiced today. Sure aging and physical degeneration is a complex problem and one simple tool like a hammer isn't going to be able to fix this problem but if we break that problem down into each of its little component parts we can fix this very sophisticated problem one calculation at a time.

Q: What makes information not suitable for Rejuvepedia?

Probably if it is offtopic we it will marked for deletion or moved to the correct place which could be an entirely different wiki if it is offtopic enough. We haven't had to do this yet.

You also can't try to use Rejuvepdia directly for advertising and making money as we put being healthy before being wealthy.

Q: What's going to be on Rejuvepedia ?

Rejuvepedia aims to have a lot of very rich and inspiring multimedia content that is produced by the imaginations of those within our community. For instance imagine being able to zoom in on any part of the anatomy of a simulated middle aged person. We could see at all levels for example organs, tissues, inside veins and arteries and the aged related damage and loss in function to these areas. We would then show simulations of the rejuvenation therapy and how these systems would be restored to a youthful state. Even if these therapies don't exist that we can build some science fiction in which they do will help speed up progress towards the development of these therapies.

Q: How could Rejuvepedia be summarized in a 4-5 word sentence ?

A collective intelligence health resource.

Q: What's the intollerable fault of existing tools that makes RP absolutely needed ?

The best thing about Rejuvepedia is that everyone can help build it. You don't need to spend 3-4 years doing boring lectures, pointless labs and hand written exams. You just need a open mind and boundless imagination. You need to be keen to learn and confident in your abilities yet still humble and continue to be keen to learn and improve when people point out your mistakes.

In a world where everyone wants the loaf of bread that's already baked yet no one wants to help make the dough rise e.g. when you look for a job everyone wants four years experience we have decided that the most enthusiastic and keenest people out there are the ones that are starting from scratch today. The ones that don't let anyone stop them no matter what. No one can say to us "Who do you think you are? You don't have three phD's and seven years of commercial experience you can't cure aging!" because as a community of people working and learning new stuff everyday as a collective intelligence we are smarter than the sum of the parts are we have access so much information that no number of peopling doing the hard hours in uni could ever catch up with.

Q: Why should I tell my smartest friends about RP as soon as I find it ?

Because if your friends help add content (or help find others that do) to Rejuvepedia you are improving your chances of being able improve your quality of life.

Q: What's the 0.2% of RP that - in your eyes - makes the 50% of the meaning ?

The meaning comes from the people who contribute. When you add a link to a news story or some information about how an organ works you are helping build Rejuvepedia. Lots of hands make light work just like trillions of teeny tiny cells make your body.

Q: Why is editing limited to registered members ?

Currently anyone can edit pages if they don't have an account or are not logged in. If this changes back to the policy of only allowing logged in users it will be a security measure to stop spammers attacking and vandalizing the website.

Q: How can RP dramatically improve my life without taking effort from me ?

Why would we promise you that? You don't get anything in life without putting the effort in. The problem is there's a lot of confusion as to exactly where and how you should be placing your efforts and you need to right knowledge to make your efforts pay of. Rejuvepedia is about enabling people to find that knowledge or enabling people to share that knowledge if they have it already. The exchange of knowledge will able all users and contributors to improve their life by making themselves healthier, smarter, youthful, emotionally better off and more fun.

Q: What's the community that's waiting for RP but still doesn't know about it ?

The entire world needs to know about Rejuvepedia. We are going to define health care to be about rejuvenation of the human body. This is a quantum leap in healthcare compared to what is available today. Young people rarely get sick so we aim to make all people young. This is a system that everyone can be part of. Not a single person on this planet currently has access to rejuvenation based healthcare. Rejuvepedia aims to change this so that every single person on this planet now does.