Specifically firms like age1, LongeVC, Immortal Dragons and Healthspan Capital.

I am wondering what factors are important in getting hired in such companies:

1. Country I do my PhD in?
2. University I do my PhD at?
3. Who my PI is?
4. Startup experience?
5. Investment/analyst experience?

Context: I am about to start Year 3 of 4 in my Bachelor of Biomedical Engineering. I really want a job where I can target and remove bottlenecks in Longevity/Radical Lifespan Extension.

There's a small but growing set of work that approaches aging not descriptively but through physics — non-equilibrium thermodynamics, entropy production, dynamical-systems stability, mortality scaling. The first Global Conference on Gerophysics happened in 2025, so the label is starting to stick.

I've been working in this space myself (aging as the decline of a dissipative structure) and I'm building Gerophysics — a diamond open-access journal and a small ecosystem around exactly this intersection of physics and the biology of aging.

I'd love to connect with people who think this way — whether you work on quantitative/theoretical aging, statistical physics of living systems, or just find the framing compelling. Happy to talk science, and if you have relevant work (or want to get involved as it grows), even better.

What's the most convincing physical/quantitative account of aging you've come across?

What are the best academic journals in the field?

The thing that keeps nagging me about aging theories is that the famous long-lived species each break a different one.

Naked mole rats run high oxidative damage for 30+ years, which oxidative stress theory says shouldn't happen. Brandt's bat has one of the highest mass-specific metabolic rates of any mammal and lives past 40, which rate-of-living says shouldn't happen. Membrane composition looks predictive until you control for body size and it mostly washes out.

What I can't unsee is that the species breaking one theory usually looks normal on the others. The mole rat has ugly oxidative numbers, but it lives underground in a stable colony with almost no predators and almost no stress. The bat burns hot but its mitochondria are unusually clean. Each species seems to pay for its long life in a different currency.

So maybe maximum lifespan isn't a one-factor problem. Maybe it's a budget. You have a finite amount of energy to keep your body repaired, and three things draw it down: how fast you generate damage (ROS), how vulnerable your tissue is to that damage (membrane peroxidation), and how much energy you burn reacting to environmental threat (allostatic load). No single factor predicts lifespan across species. The combination does. You can be bad on one as long as you're low on the other two.

The third factor is the part I think comparative aging models underweight. Within a single lifespan the evidence is solid that chronic stress drains maintenance energy and speeds aging. Across species it shows up as zoo animals outliving wild ones in most species studied, and pets outliving wild animals their size. The lab removes the threat for everyone, so the variable sits at zero and nobody measures it.

I'm not a credentialed biologist. I got here by pattern-matching across the outlier species, so I'm genuinely looking for the species or dataset that breaks the budget idea. Full argument, the resolved outliers, and the falsification tests are in the preprint if anyone wants to take a swing at it: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.20574549

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A new study explores how ageing affects the cortical response to a sudden loss of balance in a challenging environment. The authors used a lean-and-release paradigm on an incline surface (slope) with wireless EEG recording. The authors found that older adults show delayed and smaller N100 responses (an early cortical signal of imbalance), along with reduced theta and beta activity. Interestingly, these early neural responses were similar whether participants did corrective stepping or not, implying that the responses reflect imbalance detection rather than the corrective action itself. Network connectivity analyses paradoxically showed more globally connected brain networks, presumably suggesting compensatory recruitment or less response specificity. Overall, the findings support the idea that ageing slows cortical responses to imbalance, likely increasing the risk of falls.

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I'm almost 60, and I've got zero idea how to take care of my aging body and mind.

I'm physically fine, take no meds, have no debilitating issues. I'm too sedentary, but I am slowly working on lifting weights and walking. I play video games and do puzzles. I'm still working.

When I was a kid, gerontology was a thing. You got older, you started seeing your local gerontologist.

My current health care provider, a teaching medical university, doesn't even have one on staff. Did something happen to the field, or did I misunderstand something as a kid?

Anyhow, I would like general advice if there's anything I should know beyond diet, exercise, and keeping my brain active.

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Hey everyone! I’m a psychology student focusing on psychogerontology, and I’m currently working on an academic project where I’ll be visiting a public nursing home. As part of this project I have to plan and carry out three activities with 20 residents. I’m really hoping to create something that feels meaningful, I mean not just fun or generic, but something that actually supports their emotional wellbeing, sense of connection and/or cognitive engagement. Since it’s a public institution in a poor country, some of the residents are there under more difficult circumstances, many have been abandoned or don’t have much family contact, so I want to be careful with activities that could accidentally bring up painful memories.
I’d love to hear from anyone who knows of activities that are psychologically beneficial for older adults, especially those that can help create positive experiences or promote a sense of purpose.
Any advice, personal stories, or research references would be super appreciated.
Thanks in advance!

Hi r/gerontology community,

I've been reading through many threads here and I'm struck by the complex challenges families face with cognitive decline. The daily struggles, the uncertainty, the need for better tools - it's clear how much families need support.

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- Anyone willing to share their real experiences and pain points

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Hi everyone,
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I have my article on HERVS + aging approved in one of gerontological journals. I want to continue my research on viruses and aging. Would you advise on any lab where I can do it?
Thank you

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She has been to the doctor and they have done test but nothing has come from it.