Low T – Regional Urology

Hypogonadism is commonly referred to as low testosterone, or low-T. Low-T can cause a range of symptoms including lack of libido (loss of sex drive), fatigue, low energy, sleep disturbances, difficulty losing weight and depression. Long term effects can include night sweats and osteoporosis (soft bones).

Primary hypogonadism, or testicular failure, is a condition where the testicles do not make enough testosterone. Secondary hypogonadism occurs when the brain (pituitary and/or hypothalamus) do not send appropriate signals (luteinizing hormone, LH) to the testicles telling them to make testosterone. Acquired hypogonadism refers to low testosterone related to aging.

As in all medical conditions, evaluation begins with an appointment where your urologist can take your medical history, perform a physical exam, and order appropriate blood tests.

In a male with symptoms of low-T, a testosterone level can easily be measured with a simple blood test. Testosterone levels naturally fluctuate during the day and peak in the morning between 7 and 9am. For this reason, it is best to measure a testosterone level in the early morning. A normal testosterone level is between 300 and 800 ng/dl. Other lab tests that may get ordered include a prolactin, LH (luteinizing hormone), FSH (follicle-stimulating hormone), complete blood count, and PSA (prostate specific antigen).

There are many options for the management of Low-T:

After initiation of replacement therapy, most men see their symptoms markedly improve within one to two weeks.

There are side effects of testosterone replacement to be aware of.

If you are interested in learning more about testosterone replacement, make an appointment with one of our Urologists today.

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ALIGNED WITH LOVE: DANTE, TRANSHUMANISM AND THE CATHARS …

The first use of the word Transhuman was by the 13th century Italian poet laureate and suspected/probable Cathar, Templar and heretic, Dante, in Paradisio, the last book of his Divine Comedy. The poem, considered one of the greatest works of human literature, is a Cathar inspired visionary journey into the afterlife and a guide for our ascension. It also offers an alternative to todays Transhumanism.

This fact will come as a surprise to scholars who suggest the term transhumanism was first coined in 1957 by Julian Huxley, a British evolutionary biologist and promoter of eugenics (who advocated culling the human herd ala the Nazis), who used the term in his book New Bottles for New Wine.

Considering Transhumanism is about packing our skins with computer chips, Huxleys title is more than poetic. Readers of my book, The Skingularity Is Near, are aware that the gods of Silicon Valley (aka the Digerati) are developing a new skin for humanity that will give us vastly advanced capacities such as health, beauty, longevity, athletic ability, and general mental ability, as compared to ordinary humans, and will fulfill Huxleys vision of positive eugenics. With our without our permission they seek to transform the entire human race via technology and unite it as one Superbeing.

Transhumanism is a more palatable or higher sounding term for the lower eugenics. It is the goal of UNESCO, the UNs global organization dedicated to the creation of a single world culture founded by Huxley in 1947. Huxley believed the world was ready for a new religion to replace the old superstitious ones. The UN would build the new Tower of Babel of this religion. You can read a slightly paranoid, but factual, update on the UNs implementation of Artificial Intelligence to fulfill its globalist agenda here.

New Bottles, New Wine is a play on the mysterious parable attributed to Jesus: And no one puts new wine into old wineskinsbut one puts new wine into fresh wineskins (Mark 2:22). Putting fresh wine in old stretched to the limit skins is asking for trouble. Its like trying to get new results with old behaviors.

Transhumanists believe we must make new skins for the new, gooder human to inhabit. Our old skins and human behaviors simply will not due. Therefore, reason Transhumanists, if we change the skin via technology we can control behavior, and if we can control behavior we can change humanity. Those Fitbits and Apple Watches that monitor blood pressure, heart rate, and basically everything else, are the front door of this type of behavior modification or mind control technology. In March, 2017 Elon Musk launched Neuralink to meld humans with A.I. in an effort to save us.

This behavior-mind-skin modification is among the top concerns of they/we who question the implications/sanity of, or outright oppose, Transhumanism.

What will happen to those who do not take the chip or get the new skin (like some older whiners, like me, may choose to do)? What if they are deemed unfit or defective humans by the new ones?

Huxleys writings on eugenics provides possible answers, beginning with sterilizing of the unfit or ungooder (aka those unretrofitted with chips?) and identification of defective humans (the unaugmented?). He also advocated for: prohibition of marriage of the unfit and segregation of institutions containing degenerate individuals.

As I write this article, MIT Technology Review announced that the first human embryos have been edited in the U.S., demonstrating that we can improve the DNA of human embryos. The news here wasnt the capability, but the location. Previous reports of editing human embryos were all published by scientists in China, who are considered to be less than ethics challenged. The U.S. intelligence community last year called this type of gene editing (known as CRISPR) a potential weapon of mass destruction. It appears the unspeakable is becoming unstoppable.

Dante holds the Divine Comedy.

Will there be a safe place, a high mountain, for the unfit, ungooder and backward thinking humans in the new world of the souped up or hot-rodded Transhumans and genetically engineered humans? A way out?

I believe there isand this is what Dante was, prophetically, pointing to in the Divine Comedy and what he actually meant when he coined the term Transhuman before Julian Huxley hijacked it.

CHANGING FLESH

Dantes Divine Comedy is about the souls journey to God and how he changed his earthly flesh into celestial flesh, prompting the first dropping of the word Transhuman.

Changing our behaviors that change our flesh to light is the only way out of earth life.

There is nothing funny, ha ha, about Dantes poem. In the classical sense the word comedy refers to works which reflect belief in an ordered universe, in which events tend toward not only a happy or amusing ending but one influenced by a Providential will that orders all things to an ultimate good. This infers a belief in God, and a God that is actively involved in our daily lives and our ascension.

The how to change human flesh into celestial flesh question has been on the human table for thousands of years, especially every since Babylon in 600 B.C. Dante updated it in a dramatic fashion.

The Italian genius was a great assembler of esoteric knowledge. He drew from the Greeks, Romans, early Christians any and all who could assist in answering the fundamental question we all face. Where do we go after we die? How do we get there?

He wasnt the first to visualize, preview or rehearse ascending, but he was among the many who consciously seek the how to of this process.

How do we become more whole, holy, compassionate and complete and ascend to dwell among a higher class of souls? (The answer is we change what we are doing while in the body.)

GET THE ROBE

Dante sought to complete his earthly journey by embarking on a celestial journey which would land him in the company of the holy ones in heaven (Sion, Paradise), and the just humans made perfect, who surround the throne of Christ.

Dantes journey, and the poem, is divided into three sections: Hell, Purgatory and Paradise. This is our ascension journey, too. The descent into the underworld precedes our ascension. This descent is a sort of pop quiz. The reason for this is because ontogeny recapitulates philogeny, meaning we have to go through, recapitulate or review all our previous states of being throughout our evolution just to make sure we have transcended them. One reason for this is that they represent where we came from, demonstrating that we are morphing beings who have transited, transfigured or transformed through many previous states (that we dont have to repeat) and have many ahead of us, as well.

Dante knew our next goal was to acquire the white robe of these Chosen Ones or Perfect Ones. The idea is that if we want to be like the perfected ones we must dress like themlightly. This white robe is also worn symbolically by the Knights Templar, the holy militia or Gods army, of which Dante was a member.

Dante studied at Florences Santa Maria Novello. The Spanish Chapel, the old chapter house of the monastery shows the white-robed Chosen entering the gate to the high mountain, Sion. This is one of many ascension painting we will study during our Immortal Italy tour May 8-22, 2018.

Dante knew that this robe is transmittable and that one way to get this robe was to have it gifted from the Perfect or Chosen. The other way is to act like these beings, to think like them and to become perfect like them while in our earthly body.

Perfection and Heaven are terms for a state of being and a state of doing superior to ordinary earth life.

Dante is telling us we can consciously upgrade our consciousness while on earth and ascend to a superior place and state of being.

In our future, our future selves will inhabit new skins of light. New behaviors will accompany these light bodies. My work is devoted to identifying these new behaviors and assisting souls in implementing them so that the capacities of our future selves can be lived now. In Buddhism, these invaluable behaviors are called paramitas (perfection, completeness). These behaviors include generosity, patience, kindness, truth speaking. The root, para, means beyond Doing the paramitas completes us and takes us beyond ordinary human suffering.

Identifying with these states of being now, and doing them, is the key to accelerating our evolution. This will take us into the transcendent realms, not Transhumanism.

THE GOOD ONES

In his celestial journey to become a Perfect One in Heaven, Dante also drew from the Cathar knowledge of how to ascend the mystical ladder to God and navigate the seven planetary spheres.

The Cathars (or Good People) of Southern France were gnostic ascension masters who claimed to possess the true secret ascension teaching of Jesus, one composed of symbols and known as the Book of Love. They were massacred by the Catholic Church in the first European genocide from 1200-1244 to prevent the Book of Love from gaining widespread acceptance.

Like the Essenes the Cathars sought a return to our Edenic State, our primordial condition before the fall. Back then, we werent in a lesser state. We were in a supra-human phase. This is same state of being that Transhumanists seek to attain via technology.

The Cathars utilized the Ascension of Isaiah, an early (2nd-3rd century AD) Christian text that follows the journey of Isaiah, and the ascension of Jesus, through the Seven Heavens, where Isaiah gets his robe. He also saw Enoch and all who (were) with him, stripped of (their) robes of the flesh; and I saw them in their robes of above, and they were like the angels who stand there in great glory (Ascension of Isaiah 9:10).

This text was used as a visualization tool to induce visions of the afterlife and to connect with their future selves. Through repeated chanting of the text the body of the Cathars began to know what it felt like to be in heaven among the angels and how to become them. Today, feeling it to manifest it is a principle of quantum healing.

In the view of esoteric Dante scholars, such as Gabriele Rossetti, Eugene Aroux and Rene Guenon, Dantes Divine Comedy is a metaphysical-esoteric allegory that simultaneously veils and unveils the successive phases through which the consciousness of the initiate passes in order to reach immortality (angelhood/perfection). In addition to the Cathar teachings, it is drawn from Eleusis, Karnak, and India. While some wonder how Dante could have contact with these teachings, others, such as this author, believe he had tapped into the unifying cosmic truth woven through these teachings.

Dantes vision also has elements of Mohhammneds 7th century ascension to the celestial spheres (Miraj). In a single night Mohammed physically and spiritually ascended the seven levels to heaven with the archangel Gabriel, where he spoke with God. Don Miguel Asin Palacios has shown the striking correspondence between the Divine Comedy and The Book of the Nocturnal Journey, especially the fact that both heaven and hell are accessed via an immense funnel formed by a series of levels.

WORDS MAY NOT TELL OF THAT TRANSHUMAN CHANGE

Having completed his ascension through seven halls or holes in space, Dante arrives in the Empyrean, a region of pure light beyond physical existence, time and space, where he is enveloped in a light that transforms his human flesh into the perfect celestial flesh of the angels, rendering him dressed appropriately to see God.

Mohammed nears the Throne of God, attracted by a luminous garland. Says Rene Guenon in The Esotericsm of Dante, the apotheosis of both ascensions is the same: the two travelers, raised to the presence of God, describe Him as a center of intense light surrounded by nine concentric circles formed by compact lines of innumerable angelic priests who emit luminous rays.

Dante is practically speechless at witnessing the transfiguration or metamorphosis of his body into light, words may not tell of that transhuman change.

Like Glaucus when he tasted the herb of immortality that made him peer among the ocean gods, Dantes transfiguration is complete.

Like sudden lightning scattering the spiritsof sight so that the eye is then too weakto act on other things it would perceive,

such was the living light encircling me,leaving me so enveloped by its veil of radiance that I could see no thing.

The Love that calms this heaven always welcomesinto Itself with such a salutation,to make the candle ready for its flame.

Dante witnessed the power of the soul to cloak it self, uncloak itself, and then re-cloak itself. He witnessed the power of resurrection and ascension developed by the guardians of the holy land the Essenes, Gnostics, Cathars and Templar.

Dante sees an enormous rose, symbolizing divine love, the petals of which are the enthroned souls of the faithful. All the souls he has met in Heaven, including Beatrice, have their home in this rose. Angels fly around the rose like bees, distributing peace and love.

Of course, many Transhumanists do not believe in the existence of an ethereal soul, so most are unaware of the religious nature of their quest to perfect the human body. They have no idea that they are the latest priests of human transformation and that their lineage stretches back, at least, to Babylon, when the Magi first began teaching the art of resurrection. The line weaves through the Essenes and early Christianity.

FACE TO FACE WITH GOD

Finally, Dante comes face-to-face with God Himself (Cantos XXXII and XXXIII). God appears as three equally large circles occupying the same space, representing the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit:

but through my sight, which as I gazed grew stronger,that sole appearance, even as I altered,seemed to be changing. In the deep and brightessence of that exalted Light, three circlesappeared to me; they had three different colors,but all of them were of the same dimension;one circle seemed reflected by the second,as rainbow is by rainbow, and the thirdseemed fire breathed equally by those two circles.

Within these circles Dante can discern the human form of Christ. The Divine Comedy ends with Dante trying to understand how the circles fit together, and how the humanity of Christ relates to the divinity of the Son but, as Dante puts it, that was not a flight for my wings.

In a flash of understanding, which he cannot express, Dante does finally see this, and his soul becomes aligned with Gods love.

Aligned with love.

This should be the goal of all humans, Transhumanists included.

When we are aligned with love we are perfected. More, we are truly Born Again.

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Hormone Optimization TLC The Littleton Clinic

Bio-identical Hormone Replacement Therapy (BHRT)

Hormone imbalances are unique because they dont heal. When one of more of your hormone levels become imbalanced, they can lead to symptoms that if not addressed can persist or lead to more serious problems. These levels can be balanced with Bio-Identical Hormone Replacement Therapy (BHRT). Bio-identical hormones are substances that are biochemically identical to your bodys own hormones. Because of this, BHRT has been found to be safer and more effective than synthetic hormones with fewer side effects.

After taking an in-depth history to assess your specific situation and ordering lab testing to check your hormone levels, Dr. Hopp can recommend a specialized regimen to help optimize your hormone levels. For many men and women, addressing hormone imbalances can have a major impact on their symptoms and overall improve their lives!

The short answer: yes! The use of hormone replacement to address hormonal symptoms was used as early as the 1950s. During the 1970s in Europe, many practitioners switched to bio-identical hormones after they were shown to be safer than synthetic hormones. Studies have demonstrated that the use of BHRT reduces the risk of many leading causes of illness and death for both men and women. These include:

Many patients, especially women, are familiar with the clinical trial published by the Womens Health Initiative in 2002. The conclusions of this study showed that hormone replacement therapy can cause increased risk of breast cancer, heart attack, stroke and blood clots. Many practitioners immediately stopped prescribing hormones after this trial was widely publicized. We want to make an important distinction here: synthetic vs. bio-identical hormones.

The WHI trial used oral synthetic estrogen and progestins. At TLC, Dr. Hopp prescribes bio-identical hormones. Your body sees these supplemental hormones the same as hormones produced naturally in your body. The use of bio-identical hormones does not increase the risk of cancer or cardiovascular disease and the use of bio-identical progesterone may be protective against breast cancer.

If you think you may benefit from BHRT, please call our office at 720-351-2411 to set up an appointment!

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Hormone Optimization Rejuv Medical Louisville …

What are Bio-identical Hormones?

Bioidentical hormones (BHRT) are substances that biochemically identical to your bodies own hormones and therefore have been found to be safer and more effective with less side effects. A compounding pharmacist can formulate a personalized prescription that our office will prescribe by taking an in depth history and evaluating cutting edge functional labs. We also offer hormone pellets and have more experience than anyone in our area using bio identical hormones.

Hot Flashes,Night Sweats,Mood Swings,Insomnia,Depression,Headaches,Fatigue,Loss Sex Drive,Brain Fog, Memory Lapse,Hair Loss, Weight Gain,Joint Pain, Stress Incontinence,Vaginal Dryness / Pain, Acne or Dry skin

The Womens Health Initiative Study found that the use of oral synthetic non bio identical estrogen and progestin increased the risk of breast cancer, heart attack, stroke and blood clots. However, the use of bio identical natural hormones does not increase risk and the use of estriol has even been found to be protective against breast cancer.

The use of hormone replacement to relieve symptoms (there are 400 functions of estrogen) has been done since the 1950s with a change made to bio identical hormones in Europe in the 1970s to improve the safety. Studies have since demonstrated that the use of BHRT reduces the risk of all the leading causes of death for men and women such as:

At Rejuv Medical Louisville, we have been caring for women and men with hormone issues for over 15 years and take a comprehensive approach to your health care. We will work with you to identify what your hormone imbalances are, explain our findings and build a unique program just for you. We call this Personalized Medicine. Dr. Baird is board certified in Anti Aging Medicine and is one of a few local physicians who have completed the International Society for Sexual Medicine training as well. He was one of the first physicians prescribing BHRT in our area and is able to give you the choice of hormone pellets, crmes, pills, shots or even the type Suzanne Somers uses (TS Wiley). We use bio identical hormones and nutritional supplements to balance to address all your personal concerns and recommend lifestyle and dietary changes with education and coaching to enhance your well being to meet your goals to optimal health.

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Nanomedicine Conferences | Nanotechnology Events …

About Conference

ME Conferences invites all the participants from all over the world to attendNanomedicine and Nanotechnology in Health CareDuring 17-19 September, 2018 at Abu Dhabi, UAE. This includes prompt keynote presentations, Oral talks, Poster presentations and Exhibitions. And it provides an opportunity to learn about the complexity of the Diseases, discuss interventional procedures, look at new and advances in Nanotechnology and their efficiency and efficacy in diagnosing and treating various diseases and also in Healthcare treatments.

ME Conferences organizes 1000+ Global Events Every Year across USA, Europe & Asia with support from 1000 more scientific societies and Publishes 700+ Open access journals which contains over 1,00,000 eminent personalities, reputed scientists as editorial board and organizing committee members. ME Conferences journals have over 5 million readers and the fame and success of the same can be attributed to the strong editorial board which contains over 30000 eminent personalities and the rapid, quality and quick review processing.ME Conferences make the perfect platform for global networking as it brings together renowned speakers and scientists across the globe to a most exciting and memorable scientific event filled with much enlightening interactive sessions, international workshops, world class international exhibitions and poster presentations.

Why to attend?

This Conference Nanomedicinemeet 2018 will focus on Healthcare and Medicine. World-renowned speakers, the most recent techniques, tactics, and the newest updates in fields Nanotechnology and Engineering, Medical Nanotechnology, Tissue Engineering are hallmarks of this conference. Nanomedicinemeet-2018 is an exciting opportunity to showcase the modern technology, the new products of your company, and/or the service your industry may offer to a broad international audience. It covers a lot of topics and it will be a nice platform to showcase their recent researches on Nanotechnology, MaterialScienceand other interesting topics.

Target Audience:

The termNano medicineencompasses a broad range of technologies and materials. Types of nanomaterials that have been investigated for use as drugs,, drug carriersor other Nonmedical agents. There has been steep growth in development of devices that integrate nanomaterials or other nanotechnology. Thenanotechnology-based medical devices market is categorized into three major segments, namely, therapeutic applications, diagnostics applications, and research applications. Rising incidence of lifestyle and age-related disorders (such as cardiovascular and hearing disorders) has contributed significantly to the growth of the nanotechnology-based active implantable devices market. Nanotechnology, or systems/device manufacture at the molecular level, is a multidisciplinary scientific field undergoing explosive development. The genesis of nanotechnology can be traced to the promise of revolutionary advances across medicine, communications and genomics. On the surface, miniaturization provides cost effective and more rapidlyfunctioningbiological components. Less obvious though is the fact that Nanometer sized objects also possess remarkableself-ordering and assemblybehaviors under the control of forces quite different from macro objects.

Advances in technology have increased our ability to manipulate the world around us . Nanotechnology is rapidly emerging within the realm of medicine. Nanomedicine is the process of diagnosing, treating, and preventing disease andtraumatic injury, of relieving pain, and of preserving and improving human health, using molecular tools and molecular knowledge of the human body. An exciting and promising area of Nano technological development is the building of Nanorobots. Highly precise positioning techniques are required in Miniaturing in chip technology, optics , micro mechanic, medicine , gene and biotechnology. The new manipulation technology is the desire to enter the micro and Nano world not only by viewing but also acting, alteringmicro andNanosized objects. Nanorobots plays a critical roles for many applications in the human body, such astargetingtumoral lesionsfor therapeutic purposes, miniaturization of the power source with an effective onboard controllable propulsion and steering system have prevented the implementation of such mobile robots.

The therapeutic properties of light have been known for thousands of years, but it was only in the last century that photodynamic therapy (PDT) was developed. It is an emerging modality for the treatment of a variety of diseases that require the killing of pathological cells (e.g. cancer cells or infectious micro-organisms) or the removal of unwanted tissue (e.g. neovascularization in the choroid or atherosclerotic plaques in the arteries). It is based on the excitation of nontoxic photosensitizers.Photodynamic therapy(PDT) uses the combination of dyes with visible light to produce reactive oxygen species and kill bacteria and destroy unwanted tissue. Nanotechnology plays a great role insolubilizing thephotosensitizers, metal nanoparticles can carry out Plasmon resonance enhancement, andfullerenescan act as photosensitizers, themselves.

Nanotechnology is becoming increasingly important for the several sectors. Promising results and applications are already being developed in the areas of nutrient delivery systems through bioactive Nano encapsulation,biosensorsto detect and quantifypathogens organic compounds. The sensitivity and performance of biosensors is being improved by using nanomaterials for their construction. The use of these nanomaterials has allowed the introduction of many new signal transduction technologies in biosensors. Many scientists have involved themselves to know the application and the benefits of nanotechnology in different areas of food industry that include bioactive Nano encapsulation, edible thin film, packages andNano sensors.

Green chemistry and Nano science are both emerging fields that take advantage of molecular-level designing and have enormous potential for advancing our science. Nano science is the study of materials that are on the length-scale of 100 nanometers or smaller and have properties that are dependent on their physical size. The principles of green chemistry can guide responsible development of Nano science, while the new strategies of Nano science can fuel the development ofgreener productsand processes.Phytochemicalsoccluded in tea have been extensively used as dietary supplements and as naturalpharmaceuticalsin the treatment The parallel development of green chemistry and Nano science and the potential synergy of the two fields can lead to more successful and profitable technologies with reduced environmental impacts and improved conservation of resources. In recent years, green synthesis ofmetal nanoparticlesis an interesting issue of the nanoscience.

Nanotechnologyis enabling technology that deals with Nano-meter sized objects. It is expected that nanotechnology will be developed at several levels: materials, devices and systems. The combination of biology and nanotechnology has led to a new generation ofNano devicesthat opens the possibility to characterize the chemical, physical, mechanical, and other molecular properties. And it can be even used to characterize the single molecules or cells at extraordinarily high throughput.Nanoparticleswith distinctive chemical compositions, sizes, shapes, and surface chemistries can be engineered easily and this technique has wide range of applications in biological systems.Utility of nanotechnology to biomedical sciences imply creation of materials and devices designed tointeraction in sub-cellular scaleswith a high degree of specificity.

Biopolymer nanoparticles are offering numerous advantages which embrace the simplicity of their preparation from well-understood biodegradable, biocompatible polymers and their high stability inbiological fluidsduring storage. Since the emergence of Nanotechnology in the past decades, the development and design of organic andbioorganic nanomaterialshas become an important field of research. And several types of polymers have been tested and are used in drug delivery systems; including nanoparticles, dendrimers, capsosomes and micelles. Researchers have found, the synthesized polymers even serves as a good carrier and plays a vital role in carrying a drug. And in other hand they are used in food industries too for food package purposes. There are thousands of organic chemicals are in present in various pharmaceutical to consumer product and are being used in dyes, flavoring agents. It can be explained in organic compounds ranging in diameter from 10 to 1m.Ultrafine particlesare the same asnanoparticlesand between 1 and 100 nanometers in size, fine particles are sized between 100 and 2,500 nanometers, and coarse particles cover a range between 2,500 and 10,000nanometers.

The biological synthesis ofnanoparticlesis synthesis method through which we can control, size and shape of nanoparticles and it increasingly regarded as a rapid, ecofriendly, and easily scaled-up technology. Over the past few years researches have shown their interest inmetallic nanoparticlesand their synthesis has greatly increased. However, drawbacks such as the involvement oftoxic chemicalsand the high-energy requirements of production. Synthesizing living organisms such as bacteria, fungi and plants is an alternative way to overcome the drawbacks. Plant mediated synthesis of nanoparticles is the green chemistry that connects. Generally, metal nanoparticles are synthesized and stabilized by using physical and chemical: the chemical approach, such as chemical reduction,electrochemical techniques,photochemical reactionsin reverse micelles. There is a growing attention to biosynthesis the metal nanoparticles using organisms. Among these organisms, plants seem to be the best candidate and they are suitable for large scale biosynthesis of nanoparticles.

Nanoparticles used asdrug deliveryvehicles are generally below 100 nm , and are coated with different biodegradable materials such as natural or synthetic polymers (PEG,PVA,PLGA,etc.), lipids, or metals , it plays significant role on cancer treatment as well as it holds tremendous potential as an effective drug delivery system. A targeted drug delivery system (TDDS) is a system, which releases the drug in a controlled manner. Nanosystems with different compositions and biological properties have been extensively investigated for drug and gene delivery applications. To achieve efficient drug delivery it is important to understand the interactions ofNanomaterialswith the biological environment, targetingcell-surface receptors, drug release, multiple drug administration, stability of therapeutic agents. Nanotechnology refers to structures roughly in the 1100 nm size regime in at least one dimension. Despite this size restriction, nanotechnology commonly refers to structures that are up to several hundred nanometers in size and that are developed bytop-down or bottom-up engineering of individual components.

Nanosuspention formulation can be used to improve the solubility of the poorly soluble drugs. One of the major problems associated with poorly soluble drugs is very low bioavailability. The Preparation ofNanosuspentionis simple and applicable to all drugs which are water insoluble. It consists of the pure poorly water-soluble drug without any matrix material suspended in dispersion . Various techniques are used for the enhancement of the solubility of poorly soluble drugs which include physical and chemical modifications of drug and other methods like particle size reduction,crystal engineering, salt formation, solid dispersion, use ofsurfactant, complexation A range of parameters like solubility, stability at room temperature, compatibility with solvent, excipient, andphotostabilityplay a critical role in the successful formulation of drugs. Use of some drug which is potentially restricted because of its toxic side-effects and its poor solubility, making it unsuitable for intravenous use in patients withdrug malabsorption.

Nano medicine drives the convergence of nanotechnology and medicine it is delineated as the application of nanotechnology in healthcare. The field of tissue engineering has developed in phases: initially researchers searched for inert biomaterialsto act solely as replacement structures in the body. Tissue engineering is classified as an associate field of biomaterialsand engineering. It focuses on the use of cellular and material-based therapies aimed attargeted tissue regenerationcaused by traumatic, degenerative, and genetic disorders.It covers a broad range of applications, in practice the term has come to represent applications that repair or replace structural tissues (i.e., bone, cartilage, blood vessels, bladder, etc.). Today, these Nano scale technologies are coming to the forefront in medicine because of their biocompatibility, tissue-specificity, and integration and ability to act as therapeutic carriers.

Polymeric nanoparticles (NPs) are one of the most studied organic strategies for Nano medicine. Intense interest lies in the potential ofpolymeric NPsto revolutionize modern medicine. Polymeric NPs include drug delivery techniques such as conjugation and entrapment of drugs,prodrugs, stimuli-responsive systems,imaging modalities, and theranostics.The use of biodegradable polymeric nanoparticles (NPs) for controlled drug delivery has shown significanttherapeutic potential. Concurrently, targeted delivery technologies are becoming increasingly important as a scientific area of investigation. Polymericnanoparticles-based therapeutics show great promise in the treatment of a wide range of diseases, due to the flexibility in which their structures can be modified, with intricate definition over their compositions, structures and properties. Advances in polymerizationchemistries and the application of reactive, efficient andorthogonal chemicalmodification reactionshave enabled the engineering of multifunctional polymericnanoparticles.

In recent years,microbubbleand Nano bubble technologies have drawn great attention due to their wide applications in many fields of science and technology, such as water treatment,biomedical engineering, and nanomaterials.Nano bubblesexhibit unique characteristics; due to their minute size and high internal pressure, they can remain stable in water for prolonged periods of time. Nanobubbles can be created whengold nanoparticlesare struck by short laser pulses. The short-lived bubbles are very bright and can be made smaller or larger by varying the power of the laser. Because they are visible under a microscope, nanobubbles can be used to either diagnose sick cells or to track the explosions that are destroying them.

Natural productshave been used in medicine for many years. Many top-sellingpharmaceuticalsare natural compounds or their derivatives.. And plant- or microorganism-derived compounds have shown potential as therapeutic agents against cancer, microbial infection, inflammation, and other disease conditions. Natural products had huge success in the post-World War II era as antibiotics, and the two terms have become synonymous.While large pharmaceutical companies have favored screening synthetic compound libraries for drug discovery, small companies have started to explore natural products uses against cancer, microbial infection, inflammation, and other diseases.The incorporation of nanoparticles into a delivery system for natural products would be a major advance in the efforts to increase their therapeutic effects. Recently, advances have been made showing that nanoparticles can significantly increase the bioavailability of natural products bothin vitro and in vivo.

Nanoscience and nanotechnology are new frontiers of this century and food nanotechnology is an emerging technology. Food technology is regarded as one of the industry sectors where nanotechnology will play an important role in the future. The development of new products and applications involving nanotechnologies holds great promise in different industrial sectors, Nanotechnology may revolutionize the food industry by providing stronger, high-barrier packaging materials, more potentantimicrobial agents. Several possibilities exist to exploit the benefits of nanotechnologies during different phases of the food chain with the aim to enhance animal nutrition and health. Several complex set of engineering and scientific challenges in the food and bioprocessing industries for manufacturing high quality and safe food through efficient and sustainable means can be solved through nanotechnology. Bacteria identification and food quality monitoring using biosensors; intelligent, active, and smart food packaging systems; and Nanoencapsulationofbioactive food compoundsare few examples of emerging applications of nanotechnology for the food industry.

The main current applications of Nanotechnology for surgeons are in the areas of development of surgical implants using Nanomaterials, Imaging, Drug Delivery and development of Tissue Engineering products, such as scaffolds with enhanced materialcell interaction. An example of this is the development of a scaffold for delivery of stem cells to replace defective retinal pigmented epithelial cells in age-related Macular Degeneration. In Dentistry research has been done, liposomal Nanoparticles that contained collagenase and performed tests with them in rats, and found compared to conventional surgery, collagenase weakened the collagen fibers, making it easier to shift the teeth afterward with braces.

Nanoparticles with their unique size-dependent properties are at the forefront of advanced material engineering applications in several fields. Metals, non-metals, bio-ceramics, and manypolymeric materialsare used to produce nanoparticles of the respective materials. These are functional in producing liposomes, PEG and many more. Due to their small size nanoparticles has found to be interacting with human bodies same like of gases. Nanoparticles of the same composition can display behavioral differences when interacting with different environments. Nanoparticles can enter the human body via inhalation, ingestion, or skin contact. The range of pathologiesrelated to exposure tonanoparticles encompasses respiratoryand even several organs and leads to diseases. Accurate in vitro assessment ofnanoparticle cytotoxicityrequires a careful selection of the test systems. Due to high adsorption capacity and optical activity, engineered nanoparticles are highly potential in influencing classical cytotoxicity assays.

One of the exciting features of nanotechnology is its utility in the field of Nano medicine, therapeutics, and medical devices . When these small size materials are introduced into biological systems, their extremely small size and their unique Nano scale properties make it possible to use them as delivery vectors and probes for biological diagnostics,bioimagingand therapeutics. In fact, when size decreases, thesurface area to volume ratioof materials becomes very large, so that a vast suitable surface is available forchemical interactions withbiomolecules. This critically implied that nanotechnology is facing a transition into the tangible advancement ofhuman therapeutics. Recently, There are multiple clinical trials of nanomaterials have done; both for therapeutics and for medical devices.

Related conferences: Nanomedicine Conferences | Nanotechnology Events | Nano Healthcare Congress | Nanomedicine Meet | Nanoscience Event | Nanoengineering Conference | Tissue Engineering Meeting

Related Societies:

USA:International Organization of Materials, International Association of Nanotechnology, Graphene Stakeholders Association, Nano Science and Technology Institute (NSTI),NanoBusiness Commercialization Association, Alliance for Nanotechnology in Cancer,International association of nanotechnology,National Institute for Nanotechnology, Waterloo Institute for Nanotechnology, The Institute for Molecular Manufacturing (IMM),NanoBusiness Alliance, Nanotechnology and Nanoscience Student Association (NANSA),Nano Science and Technology Institute (NSTI),National Cancer Institute, National Nanotechnology Initiative,American Nano society, Metals and Minerals Societies, Society for Advancement of Material and process Engineering,American Composites Manufacturers Association, Brazilian Composites Materials Association,Canadian Biomaterials Society, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA).

Europe:International Union of Crystallography, European Nanoscience and Nanotechnology Association (ENNA),German Association of Nanotechnology, Nanotechnology Industries Association, The Institute of Nanotechnology (IoN), Nanotechnology Industries Association (NIA),Russian Society of Scanning Probe Microscopy and Nanotechnology, Society of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, Federation of Materials Societies, Society for Biomaterials, Federation of European Materials Societies

Asia-Pacific & Middle East:Nano Technology Research Association (NTRA), Asian Nanoscience and Nanotechnology Association (ANNA), Nanoscience & Nanotechnology, ASPEN-Asian society of precision engineering and nanotechology, The International Association of Nanotechnology (IANT), Iran Nanotechnology Initiative Council (INIC), National Institutes of Health, Society of Materials Science, Japan Society for Composite Materials, Australasian Society for Biomaterials and Tissue Engineering, Australasian Ceramic Society, Materials Research Society, National Centre for Nanoscience and Technology.

Theme: Role of Nanotechnology in Humans life

Summary:

The field of Nanotechnology has recently emerged as the most commercially viable technology of this century because of its wide-ranging applications in our daily lives. Man-made Nanostructured materials such as fullerenes, nanoparticles, Nano powders, Nanotubes, Nanowires, Nanorods, Nano-fibers, Quantum dots, Dendrimers, Nano clusters, Nanocrystals, and Nanocomposites are globally produced in large quantities due to their wide potential applications, e.g., in skincare and consumer products, healthcare, electronics, photonics, biotechnology, engineering products, Pharmaceuticals, drug delivery, and agriculture. Many emerging economies such as Brazil, China, India, Iran, UAE, Malaysia, Mexico, Singapore and South Africa have ambitious research and development (R&D) plans for Nanotechnology.A group of scientists who have mapped out the uses of Nanotechnology and the needs of global health argue that Nano medicine is relevant for the developing world. They surveyed researchers worldwide and concluded that Nanotechnology could greatly contribute to meeting the Millennium Development Goals for health.

Importance and scope:

Nanotechnologyis becoming a crucial driving force behind innovation in medicine and healthcare, with a range of advances including Nano scale therapeutics, biosensors, implantable devices, drug delivery systems, and imaging technologies. Universities also have begun to offer dedicated Nano medicine degree programs (example:MSc program in Nanotechnology for Medicine and Health Care). Nanotechnology will be getting to be progressively prevalent these times Around learners. Actually, if you follow again of the Inception about nanotechnology, you will discover that Ayurveda need long been utilizing gold Also silver nanoparticles, known as bhasmas, to treat Different therapeutic ailments. Presently, nanotechnology may be generally utilized within huge numbers industries, going from cosmetics, agriculture, and materials should pharmaceutical Also human services. Nanomedicine may be the provision for nanotechnology for those diagnoses, detection, and medicine Also aversion of illnesses. Presently there need aid various items on the business that would the outcome from claiming nanotechnology. Talking for scratching the surface, we likewise have Nano auto wax that fills done the individuals minor cracks more successfully Furthermore provides for you a shinier vehicle. There need aid likewise Nano items accessible with stay with your eyewear What's more different optical units cleaner, dryer, What's more that's only the tip of the iceberg tough.

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Why in Abu Dhabi?

Abu Dhabi is the federal capital and centre of government in the United Arab Emirates sits off the mainland on an island in the Persian (Arabian) Gulf. It is the largest city of the Emirate of Abu Dhabi and one of the most modern cities in the world. It is a well-ordered, industrious city with a pretty waterside location. Innovative Nano Technology LLC was founded in the beginning of 2016 in Al Ain City, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. It was established with the goal of taking a leading role in the field of Nano Technology Based Coatings, and is considered as one of the first Companies who offer the new Nano technology based Coatings in the region.

Why to attend?

United Arab Emirates has a number of universities that offer research and educational opportunities in nanotechnology. United Arab Emirates University, The first and foremost comprehensive National University in the United Arab Emirates. eFORS office is the University consultancy office within the college of engineering that deals with several science and technology issues including Biochemical and Biopharmaceutical Processes and Bioengineering and Nanotechnology. Reports released during October 2012 revealed that the worlds second largest foundry, Globalfoundries has agreed to partner with Masdar Institute to develop Abu Dhabi as a centre for semiconductor R&D and manufacturing excellence. In September, the company allowed students and professors to use its technology facilities at its Abu Dhabi branch. The facilities have a laboratory-like environment with powerful production servers, engineering work stations and a high-speed data network that can be used for enabling remote access to very advanced nanotechnology engineering systems

Technology domains of patent applications in UAE

This graph shows the global Nanomedicine market size, measured in terms of revenues, such as sales revenues, grants revenues, and milestones. From2006to date, a steady growth has occurred, which is expected to continue through2014, at aCAGRof13.5% [BCCResearch, Nanotechnology in Medical Applications. The drug delivery market is the largest contributing application segment, whereas biomaterials are the fastest growing application area in this market. Nanomedicine accounts for77Marketed Products Worldwide, representing an Industry with an estimated market $249.9Billion by2016[ETPNdata,BCC].

Globally, the industry players would centering essentially once R&D to get Regard for Different clinical trials for future Nanodrugs with a chance to be economically accessible in the business sector. If a chance to be generally arranged for exactly of the most punctual What's more The greater part essential requisitions of Nano medicine for regions for example, gene treatment and tissue building. The a greater amount propelled requisitions for Nano medicine will pose interesting tests As far as order Furthermore support about exploratory dexterity.

Nano medicine market :

Nano-enabled medical products beganappearing on the market over a decade ago and some have become best-sellers in theirtherapeutic categories. The main areas in which Nanomedical products have made animpact are cancer, CNS diseases, cardiovascular disease, and infection control. At present, cancer is one of the largesttherapeutic areas in which Nano-enabled products have made major contributions; theseinclude Abraxane, Depocyt, Oncospar, Doxil,and Neulasta. Cancer is a prime focus forNano pharmaceutical R&D, and companieswith clinical-stage developments in this fieldinclude Celgene, Access, Camurus, andCytimmune. Treatments for CNS disorders includingAlzheimers disease and stroke also feature prominently in Nano therapeutic research,seeking to build on achievements already posted by products such as Tysabri, Copazone,and Diprivan. According to BCC Research,this is a field hungry for successfultherapeutic advances and annual growth fromexisting and advanced pipeline products isexpected to reach 16% over the next 5 years.

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Nano Congress 2017

We gratefully thank all our wonderful Speakers, Conference Attendees, Students, Media Partners, Associations and Sponsors for making Nano Congress 2017 Conference the best ever!

The19thNano Congress for Next Generation, hosted by the ME Conferences was held duringAugust 31- September 01, 2017atBrussels, Belgiumbased on the themeNext Generation Nanotechnology Concepts Methodologies Tools and Applications". Benevolent response and active participation was received from the Organizing Committee Members along with Scientists, Researchers, Students and leaders from various fields of Nanotechnology who made this event a grand success.

ME Conferences expresses its gratitude to the conference Moderator,namelyDr.Dominique Ausserrefor taking up the responsibility to coordinate during the sessions. We are indebted to your support.

Similarly we also extend our appreciation towards our Poster judge namely,Dr. Arturs Medvids.

The conference was initiated with theHonorable presenceof theKeynote forum. The list includes:

The meeting reflected various sessions, in which discussions were held on the following major scientific tracks:

Nano Materials Synthesis and Characterisation

Nano Photonics

Molecular Nanotechnology

Nanotechnology and Cosmetics

Nanotechnology in Agriculture and Food Industry

Carbon Based Nano materials and Devices

Nanotechnology Safety

Nano Medicine and Nano Biotechnology

Nano Science and Technology

Nano Applications

Nano-electronics

Nano Biomaterials

Nano Biometric

Advanced Nanomaterials

Nano Technology in Tissue Engineering

Nanotech for Energy and Environment

Nano Computational Modelling

ME Conferences offers its heartfelt appreciation to organizations such asAllied Academies,Andrew John Publishing Inc.,New York private Equity Forum,Crowd Reviewsand other eminent personalities who supported the conference by promoting in various modes online and offline which helped the conference reach every nook and corner of the globe. ME Conferences also took privilege to felicitate the Keynote Speakers, Organizing Committee Members, Chairs and sponsors who supported this event

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Testosterone Replacement: Options for Treatment Have …

The first thing to understand about testosterone replacement is that oral testosterone (pills taken by mouth) doesnt really work because it is broken down so quickly by the liver. The solution to this problem involves patches, gels, shots, and even nasal sprays. Here are your options, with some new players in the game.

Androderm patches are meant to be worn on the arm or torso. Androderm patches deliver approximately 5 mg of testosterone per 24 hours and result in normal testosterone levels in the majority of hypogonadal men. These have been around for a while.

Four testosterone gels are available: AndroGel, Testim, Fortesta, and Axiron.

The option of intramuscular injections is a good one, though it requires office visits. Injections are usually given one shot of 100 mg, once a week for 12 weeks. Regimens of 300 mg every three weeks and 400 mg every four weeks can also be used. An advantage of the shots for men is the freedom from daily administration of a gel or patch, while the disadvantages are the need for a shot of an oily solution every one to three weeks.

Natestois the first nasaltestosteronegel approved in the United States for the treatment of male hypogonadism andtestosteronedeficiency.Natestois a metered-dose pump applicator that places the gel into the nostrils.

The good thing?Because this gel is applied inside of the nostril, there is little chance of transferringtestosteroneto women or children who come into close physical contact with the person using the intranasal gel. That can occur with the gels and patches used on the skin.

There are some disadvantages.Some men wont like that it needs to be used three times daily. People with allergies or underlying nasal or sinus problems also may not likeNatestoas a runny nose, sore throatand sinusitis are among the most common side effects.

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Dr. O.

Most options for testosterone replacement are considered Tier 2 drugs by many insurance plans, though they may fall under higher copays or may not be covered with some plans. Androderm patches and all gel options run about $550-$600 per month or per prescription (for 30 patches or one container of gel). Testosterone shots are significantly less expensive, with generic versions sometimes available for as little as $20 per dose.

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Transhumanism Research Papers – Academia.edu

Filosofia MoraleGiovanni CogliandroA.A. 2017/18

Scopo del corso suscitare linteresse degli studenti per i temi del dibattito scientifico degli ultimi anni tra i diversi orientamenti della filosofia morale contemporanea. Si forniranno le informazioni indispensabili per comprendere le discussioni pi originali dei nostri giorni ed eventualmente poter sviluppare ricerche e percorsi personali di approfondimento. Saranno introdotti ed esposti in particolare i recenti sviluppi e i dibattiti che si sono sviluppati negli ultimi anni in tema di definizione della persona, etica normativa, metaetica, etica delle virt, deontologia, consequenzialismo, perfezionismo liberale, biopolitica, etica della cura, bioetica, disability studies, transumanesimo, moral enhancement e neuroetica. Nel corso si proporranno alla discussione alcuni casi che hanno diviso e ancora dividono le coscienze su diversi temi scottanti quali inizio e fine della vita, sperimentazione, ingegneria genetica.Nel corso delle lezioni verranno fornite indicazioni su articoli o saggi in italiano o inglese utili per lo studio personale e lapprofondimento di quanto esposto in aula.

Lesame verter su un testo a scelta tra: Angelo Campodonico, Michel Croce, Maria Silvia Vaccarezza, Etica delle virt. Un'introduzione, Carocci, Roma 2018 (capitoli scelti).Neil Levy, Neuroetica. Le basi neurologiche del senso morale, Apogeo Education 2009 (capitoli scelti).Michael J. Sandel, Contro la perfezione. L'etica nell'et dell'ingegneria genetica, Vita &Pensiero, Milano 2008 .

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Men, Low T, and the Facts | Lifespan

What is testosterone?

Testosterone is a hormone. For men, it is primarily produced in the testicles. It is most often associated with sex drive, but also plays a role in bone and muscle mass and can affect how the body stores fat. Even a mans mood can be impacted by testosterone levels.

It seems as if recently we have heard a lot about Low T. That is the more popular name for a condition known as testosterone deficiency, or hypogonadism. This deficiency can be seen through laboratory findings as well as through physical symptoms, which may include:

In addition to the typical symptoms of Low T, men who have below normal levels of this hormone may experience a sense of ill-being, foreboding, or feeling as if something is terribly wrong, but not knowing what. Men may also report fatigue, inadequate sleep, increased irritability, and poor mood.

If a man exhibits symptoms of testosterone deficiency, the best way to confirm is with morning blood tests, drawn on two separate days, to measure the levels of testosterone. If both tests show levels below 300 ng/dl (nanograms per deciliter), the diagnosis may be confirmed.

Causes include:

There are two types of low testosterone. The first is due to reduced production of testosterone from the testes, known as classical, or primary hypogonadism. This often appears in younger men, from conditions such as testicular cancer, testicular trauma or torsion (strangulation), or a congenital condition.

The second is decreased stimulation of the testes from the pituitary gland within the brain. This is known as secondary hypogonadism and it occurs more often in middle-aged and older men. This is the kind of Low T that is usually associated with obesity and other medical conditions described above.

The basis of Low T may be inflammation due to the other diseases present with Low T, or some men may have a genetic predisposition to low testosterone levels. Not all men with low levels will show the signs and symptoms of testosterone deficiency.

Like with so many other conditions, weight loss, adequate regular physical activity, and a healthy diet are the best ways a man can prevent Low T. Weight loss can also help men to improve other medical problems that are associated with Low T, including high blood pressure, type 2 diabetes, and elevated lipids or blood fats.

Fortunately, there are several options for treatment of Low T. To be most effective, a healthy diet and exercise is recommended with any form of testosterone treatment.

It is important for a man to be checked when he is showing signs of testosterone deficiency. If Low T is left untreated, men often experience a sense of impending doom, poor health, and fear. Men may also experience increased weight gain in the mid-section, have difficulties with focus and concentration, poor motivation, reduced memory, and perhaps difficulty engaging with others.

Men should seek medical attention when clinical signs and symptoms are present and before illness progresses too far. Men notoriously wait until the last moment to seek medical care. It is recommended that men see a physician once every three years until age 40, every two years after age 40, and every year or two after age 50, or more often as needed for managing other medical conditions.

It is important to remember that help is available. If you are experiencing signs of Low T, our Mens Health Center, now celebrating its 10th anniversary, can help. Learn more about our center here.

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Importance of Good Nutrition | HHS.gov

Your food choices each day affect your health how you feel today, tomorrow, and in the future.

Good nutrition is an important part of leading a healthy lifestyle. Combined with physical activity, your diet can help you to reach and maintain a healthy weight, reduce your risk of chronic diseases (like heart disease and cancer), and promote your overall health.

Unhealthy eating habits have contributed to the obesity epidemic in the United States: about one-third of U.S. adults (33.8%) are obese and approximately 17% (or 12.5 million) of children and adolescents aged 219 years are obese.1 Even for people at a healthy weight, a poor diet is associated with major health risks that can cause illness and even death. These include heart disease, hypertension (high blood pressure), type 2 diabetes, osteoporosis, and certain types of cancer. By making smart food choices, you can help protect yourself from these health problems.

The risk factors for adult chronic diseases, like hypertension and type 2 diabetes, are increasingly seen in younger ages, often a result of unhealthy eating habits and increased weight gain. Dietary habits established in childhood often carry into adulthood, so teaching children how to eat healthy at a young age will help them stay healthy throughout their life.

The link between good nutrition and healthy weight, reduced chronic disease risk, and overall health is too important to ignore. By taking steps to eat healthy, you'll be on your way to getting the nutrients your body needs to stay healthy, active, and strong. As with physical activity, making small changes in your diet can go a long way, and it's easier than you think!

Now that you know the benefits, it's time to start eating healthy: start your PALA+ journey today and use these tips on ways to eating healthy and resources to earn it.

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The Ethics Of Transhumanism And The Cult Of Futurist Biotech

Cryogenic pods. Computer illustration of people in cryogenic pods. Their bodies are being preserved by storing them at very low temperatures. They will remain frozen until a time when the technology might exist to resurrect the dead, a technique known as cryonics. Alternatively a new body may be cloned from their tissue. Some companies offer to store dead peoples bodies.

Transhumanism (also abbreviated as H+) is a philosophical movement which advocates for technology not only enhancing human life, but to take over human life by merging human and machine. The idea is that in one future day, humans will be vastly more intelligent, healthy, and physically powerful. In fact, much of this movement is based upon the notion that death is not an option with a focus to improve the somatic body and make humans immortal.

Certainly, there are those in the movement who espouse the most extreme virtues of transhumanism such as replacing perfectly healthy body parts with artificial limbs. But medical ethicists raise this and other issues as the reason why transhumanism is so dangerous to humans when what is considered acceptable life-enhancement has virtually no checks and balances over who gets a say when we go too far. For instance, Kevin Warwick of Coventry University, a cybernetics expert, asked the Guardian, What is wrong with replacing imperfect bits of your body with artificial parts that will allow you to perform better or which might allow you to live longer? while another doctor stated that he would have no part in such surgeries. There is, after all, a difference between placing a pacemaker or performing laser eye surgery on the body to prolong human life and lend a greater degree of quality to human life, and that of treating the human body as a tabula rasa upon which to rewrite what is, effectively, the natural course of human life.

A largely intellectual movement whose aim is to transform humanity through the development of a panoply of technologies which ostensibly enhance human intellect, physiology, and the very legal status of what being human means, transhumanism is a social project whose inspiration can be dated back to 19th century continental European philosophy and later through the writings of J. B. S. Haldane, a British scientist and Marxist, who in 1923 delivered a speech at the Heretics Society, an intellectual club at Cambridge University, entitled Daedalus or, Science and the Future which foretold the future of the end of ofcoalfor power generation in Britain while proposing a network of windmills which would be used for the electrolytic decomposition of water into oxygen and hydrogen (they would generate hydrogen). According to many transhumanists, this is one of the founding projects of the movement. To read this one might think this was a precursor to the contemporary ecological movement.

The philosophical tenets, academic theories, and institutional practices of transhumanism are well-known.Max More, a British philosopher and leader of the extropian movement claims that transhumanism is the continuation and acceleration of the evolution of intelligent life beyond its currently human form and human limitations by means of science and technology, guided by life-promoting principles and values. This very definition, however, is a paradox since the ethos of this movement is to promote life through that which is not life, even by removing pieces of life, to create something billed as meta-life. Indeed, it is clear that transhumanism banks on its own contradiction: that life is deficient as is, yet can be bettered by prolonging life even to the detriment of life.

Stefan Lorenz Sorgneris a German philosopher and bioethicist who has written widely on the ethical implications of transhumanism to include writings on cryonics and longevity of human life, all of which which go against most ecological principles given the amount of resources needed to keep a body in suspended animation post-death. At the heart of Sorgners writings, like those of Kyle Munkittrick, invoke an almost nave rejection of death, noting that death is neither natural nor a part of human evolution. In fact, much of the writings on transhumanism take a radical approach to technology: anyone who dare question that cutting off healthy limbs to make make way for a super-Olympian sportsperson would be called a Luddite, anti-technology. But that is a false dichotomy since most critics of transhumanism are not against all technology, but question the ethics of any technology that interferes with the human rights of humans.

Take for instance the recent push by many on the ostensible Left who favor surrogacy as a step on the transhumanist ladder, with many publications on this subject, none so far which address the human rights of women who are not only part of this equation, but whose bodies are being used in the this faux-futurist vision of life without the mention of female bodies. Versos publication of a troubling piece by Sophie Lewis earlier this year, aptly titled Gestators of All Genders Unite speaks to the lack of ethics in a field that seems to be grasping at straws in removing the very mention of the bodies which reproduce and give birth to human life: females. In eliminating the specificity of the female body, Lewis attempts to stitch together a utopian future where genders are having children, even though the reality of reproduction across the Mammalia class demonstrates that sex, not gender, determines where life is gestated and birthed. What Lewis attempts in fictionalizing a world of dreamy hopefulness actually resembles more an episode of The Handmaids Tale where this writer has lost sense of any irony. Of course pregnancy is not about gender. It is uniquely about sex and the class of gestators are females under erasure by this dystopian movement anxious to pursue a vision of a world without women.

While many transhumanist ideals remain purely theoretical in scope, what is clear is that females are the class of humans who are being theorised out of social and political discourse. Indeed, much of the social philosophy surrounding transhumanist projects sets out to eliminate genderin the human species through the application of advanced biotechnology andassisted reproductive technologies, ultimately inspired by Shulamith Firestone'sThe Dialectic of Sex and much of Donna Haraways writing on cyborgs. From parthenogenesisto the creation ofartificial wombs, this movement seeks to remove the specificity of not gender, but sex, through the elision of medical terminology and procedures which portend to advance a technological human-cyborg built on the ideals of a post-sex model.

The problem, however, is that women are quite aware that sex-based inequality has zilch to do with anything other than their somatic sex. And nothing transhumanist theories can propose will wash away the reality of the sexed human body upon which social stereotypes are plied.

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Humans have wanted to live forever for as long as weve lived at all. Its an obsession that stretches back so far that it feels like its somehow hard-coded into our DNA. Over the years, immortality (to a greater or lesser extent) has been promised by everyone from religions and cults to the cosmetics industry, big tech companies and questionable food blogs.

Its also a staple of fiction, all the way back to the earliest surviving great work of literature. The Epic of Gilgamesh, carved onto stone tablets in 2100 BC, depicts its titular king hunting for the secret of eternal life, which he finds in a plant that lives at at the bottom of the sea. He collects the plant by roping stones to his feet, but then a snake steals it while hes having a pre-immortality bath. Gilgamesh has a little cry, then gives up.

A cuneiform tablet containing part of The Epic of Gilgamesh.

The reason why we age is still the subject of major scientific debate, but it basically boils down to damage accumulating in our cells throughout our lives, which eventually kills us. By slowing that damage first by making tools, then controlling fire, inventing writing, trade, agriculture, logic, the scientific method, the industrial revolution, democracy and so on, weve managed to massively increase human life expectancy.

Theres a common misconception that to live forever we need to somehow pause the ageing process. We dont. We just need to increase the rate at which our lifespans are lengthening. Human lifespan has been lengthening at a constant rate of about two years per decade for the last 200 years. If we can speed that up past the rate at which we age then we hit what futurist Aubrey de Grey calls longevity escape velocity the point we become immortal.

Theres a common misconception that to live forever we need to somehow pause the ageing process. We dont. We just need to increase the rate at which our lifespans are lengthening.

That all sounds rather easy, and of course its not quite that simple. Its all we can do at the moment to keep up with the Moores Law of increasing lifespans. But with a major research effort, coordinated around the world, who knows? Scientific history is filled with fields that ticked along slowly and then suddenly, massively, accelerated. Computer science is one. Genetics is another recent example.

To understand what we need to do to hit longevity escape velocity, its worth looking at how life expectancy has increased in recent history. The late statistician Hans Rosling made a powerful case that average lifespans rise alongside per capita income. Take a couple of minutes to watch this video and youll be convinced:

Reducing the gap between the global rich and poor, therefore, is probably the fastest way to boost the world average life expectancy figure, but its limited. And it wont do much for people in rich countries.

To boost the lifespans of the people living in countries that are already pretty wealthy, we need to look closer at the countries that are forecast to have the highest life expectancies in the coming years. A study published earlier this year in the Lancet shows what life expectancy might look like in 2030 in 35 industrialised countries, using an amalgamation of 21 different forecasting models.

South Korea tops the chart with women living on average beyond 90, while France, Japan, Switzerland and Australia are not far behind. Most of the countries at the top of the chart have high-quality healthcare provision, low infant deaths, and low smoking and road traffic injury rates. Fewer people are overweight or obese. The US, meanwhile, is projected to see only a modest rise due to a lack of healthcare access, and high rates of obesity, child mortality and homicides.

The study results are interesting, not only because theyre the best possible guess at our future but because they clearly show how social policies make a massive difference to how long people live. There are unknowns, of course no-one could have predicted the 80s AIDS epidemic, for example, and no doubt further pandemics lurk in humanitys future. But ban smoking, fight obesity, and introduce autonomous cars and personalised medicine, and youll see lifespans rise.

The US is projected to see only a modest rise in lifespan due to a lack of healthcare access, and high rates of obesity, child mortality and homicides.

The other interesting thing is that the studys results are a shot across the bows of scientists who claim that there are hard limits to human lifespan.

As recently as the turn of the century, many researchers believed that life expectancy would never surpass 90 years, lead author Majid Ezzati of Imperial College London told the Guardian back in February.

That prediction mirrors another, published in Nature in October 2016, that concluded that the upper limit of human age is stuck at about 115 years.

By analysing global demographic data, we show that improvements in survival with age tend to decline after age 100, and that the age at death of the worlds oldest person has not increased since the 1990s, wrote the authors Xiao Dong, Brandon Milholland & Jan Vijg.

Our results strongly suggest that the maximum lifespan of humans is fixed and subject to natural constraints.

The maximum length of a human lifespan remains up for debate.

Other researchers, however, disagree. Bryan G. Hughes & Siegfried Hekimi wrote in the same journal a few months later that their analysis showed that there are many possible maximum lifespan trajectories.

We just dont know what the age limit might be. In fact, by extending trend lines, we can show that maximum and average lifespans, could continue to increase far into the foreseeable future, Hekimi said.

Three hundred years ago, many people lived only short lives. If we would have told them that one day most humans might live up to 100, they would have said we were crazy.

Thats all big-picture stuff, so lets dive down to a more personal level. Assuming that you cant change your genetics or your life up until the point that youre currently at, what can you personally do to live longer?

Heres the list: Dont smoke. Exercise your body and mind on a daily basis. Eat foods rich in whole grains, vegetables, fruits, and unsaturated fat. Dont drink too much alcohol. Get your blood pressure checked. Chop out sources of stress and anxiety in your life. Travel by train. Stay in school. Think positive. Cultivate a strong social group. Dont sit for long periods of time. Make sure you get enough calcium and vitamin D. Keep your weight at a healthy level. And dont go to hospital if you can help it hospitals are dangerous places.

All of those things have been correlated with increased lifespan in scientific studies. And theyre all pretty easy and cheap to do. If you want to maximise your longevity, then thats your to-do list. But there are also strategies that have a little less scientific merit. The ones that people with too much money pursue when they realise they havent been following any of the above for most of their life.

Inside the Cryonics Institute.

Cryonics is probably the most popular. First proposed in the 1960s by US academic Robert Ettinger in his book The Prospect of Immortality, it involves freezing the body as soon as possible after death in a tube kept at -196C, along with detailed notes of what they died of. The idea is that when medicine has invented a cure for that ailment, the corpse can be thawed and reanimated.

Calling someone dead is merely medicines way of excusing itself from resuscitation problems it cannot fix today, reads the website of top cryogenics firm Alcor.

The problem is the brain. First, its so dense and well-protected that its extremely difficult for the cryonics chemicals to penetrate it. Its almost impossible that it doesnt get damaged in the freezing process.

The 21,000,000,000 neurons and ~1,000,000,000,000,000 synapses in the human brain means that itll be a while until we have the computational resources to map it.

Secondly, your neurons die quickly even if youre immersed within minutes of death, youre still likely to suffer substantial brain damage. To which cryonics proponents argue: What do I have to lose? If the choice is between probably never waking up again and never waking up again, and its your money to spend, then why not give it a shot?

An alternative to deep freeze is storing your brain in a computer. Not literally a lump of grey matter, but a database detailing in full all of the connections between the neurons in your brain that make you you (known as your connectome). Future doctors could then either rewire a real or artificial brain to match that data, resurrecting you in a new body (or perhaps even as an artificial intelligence).

A close look at a slice of mouse brain. Credit: Robert Cudmore

So far, weve only managed to map the full connectome of one animal the roundworm C. elegans. Despite the worms mere 302 neurons and 7,500 or so synapses, the resulting data is about 12GB in size you can download it in full at the Open Connectome Project, and even install it in a robot, which will then act like a worm.

Unfortunately the human brain is a somewhat larger undertaking. The Human Connectome Project is making a start, and AI is helping, but the 21,000,000,000 neurons and ~1,000,000,000,000,000 synapses in the human brain means that itll be a while until we have the computational resources to get it done. Its worth noting that this isnt an unassailable goal, especially if we can somehow figure out which bits are actually important to our personality and who we are as individuals and which bits are just used to remember the lyrics of Spice Girls songs.

For now, though, my recommendation would be to stick to the list of simple life extension strategies above. Its probable that in time well have new ways of augmenting our bodies that will extend our lifespans (weve already started with cyborg technology just look at pacemakers and artificial hips).

But if you want to be at the front of the waiting list then youll need to arrive at that point with as youthful a body as possible.

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3.0 out of 5 starsThe book is subtitled "A NUTS and BOLTS Approach to Management" so I maybe coming to hard on it.

ByShalom in Karison October 7, 2016

I've only started reading the book and my initial impression is a 3.5/5. The book maybe dated, with the most recent references listed as 2012, and the majority before 2007. The book is subtitled "A NUTS and BOLTS Approach to Management" so I maybe coming to hard on it. I was hoping the book would be comprehensive in discussing the causes for suboptimal hormone levels. True to the title of the book - it focuses on optimization or treatment. An example is the thyroid chapter, where 5 sentences are devoted to the discussion factors affecting T4-T3 conversion. I wish there was more discussion on autoimmune and nutritional components to suboptimal thyroid. Another example would be in the testosterone chapter, where there is mention of aromatization affecting levels, but wish there was more discussion on causes for hypogonadism - ie. stress/cortisol, bpa, heavy metals, opiates, etc. The amount of references listed in the book can be viewed positively or negatively depending on whether the references are important to you.Ch3 Thyroid page 14- 51// total pages 37 // 27 pages are literature citationsCh4 Testosterone page 52-134 // total pages 82// 61 pages are literature citationsCh5 Estrogen/Progesterone p 135-182// total pages 47// 27 pages are literature citationsCh6 DHEA/Cortisol p 183-216// total pages 33// 22 pages are literature citationsCh7 Pregnenolone p 217-228// total pages 11// 8 pages are literature citationsCh8 Melatonin p 229-248// total pages 19// 14 are literature citationsCh9 HGH p249-327// total pages 78// 61 are literature citations

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Affinity Med Spa is a brand new, state-of-the-art medical spa located in the Waterford Lakes Town Center. Although were in a new space and have a new name, our team has been successfully serving the area for over seventeen years as Affinity Health and Wellness Center.

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League City & Friendswood Testosterone Therapy

Welcome to Titan T-Center & Weight Loss, League City and Friendswood, Texas finest testosterone replacement therapy clinic. Our clinic is outfitted with the latest technologies to provide our patients with efficient,safe and accurate results. In addition to our modern equipment, the medical professionals at our facilityare some of the most skilled and knowledgeable individuals in the industry. To all of us here, providing premier testosterone therapy requires more than just basic medical treatment. Our staff believes in building relationships and improving the lives of each and every individual that walks through our door.

Low testosterone, or hypogonadism, is a condition in which the bodys natural production of the hormone is below normal levels. By the age of 30, it is very common for men to begin seeing a decline in testosterone. Men may see a variety of symptoms, including but not limited to, a decrease in sex drive. Although age plays a factor in the production of testosterone, diabetes and excessive weight, have been associated with the condition as well.

Although testosterone supplements may be available in several forms, testosterone injections are believed to be safer and more effective than a pill. Oral testosterone is available, however, it is believed that testosterone taken orally may damage the liver. Furthermore, testosterone injections go directlyinto thebloodstream, making each treatment more effective.

Titan T-Center & Weight Loss is here to help you determine whether or not youmay be in need of therapy to lift your testosterone levels. We encourage you to look through the rest of our website to learn more about low t and its impact on your day-to-day life. Should you have any questions or if you would like to come in for a visit, contact us your convenience. Titan T-Center serves patients residing all over the League City and Friendswood areas.

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Sermorelin Is Life Transforming. It Can Change You. | AAI …

Sermorelin is a growth hormone-releasing hormone (GHRH) analog that functions as a growth hormone (GH) secretagogue. This means that it stimulates the production and secretion of endogenous GH from the hypothalamus in the same way as endogenous GHRH.

Sermorelin is a peptide comprised of the first 29 amino acids of endogenous GH; the sequence is the same as endogenous GHRH. As we age, our body produces less and less of our vital hormones, including GH. Studies have revealed that sermorelin can restore GH RNA concentrations to youthful levels, which subsequently stimulates the production of insulin-like growth factor-1 (IGF-1).

How Will the Sermorelin My Physician Describes Arrive?

Depending on how your physician designs your protocol, your sermorelin will come in a multi-dose injectable vial. Each vial contains a powder disc that contains sermorelin acetate. The amount of drug in the disc will determine the potency of the dose, which will vary according to your physicians recommendations for an effective and safe therapy. The vial is vacuum-sealed by the pharmacy for your protection and to preserve the hormone peptide. You will also receive a bottle of bacteriostatic water for each vial of sermorelin Injections, which you will use to reconstitute the drug before injection. Sermorelin therapy is also available in an oral preparation. Of course, all administration and storage instructions will be provided with your prescription. We also offer sermorelin/ipamorelin combination treatments. Ipamorelin is a peptide that activates the GH secretagogue receptor and function as a GH secretagogue.

Sermorelin at AAI Rejuvenation Clinic

The specialty pharmacies that we partner with allow us to offer our patients the convenience of being prescribed medication that does not need to be refrigerated. Sermorelin needs to be administered every day and, depending on the protocol, sometimes several times a day. This can be complicated for many patients, who are always on the go. Our sermorelin and combination sermorelin/ipamorelin products never require refrigeration, which makes it easy and convenient for you.

How Do I Take Sermorelin?

Sermorelin is injected subcutaneously into the body fat using a very small needle, similar to what a diabetic may use to inject insulin. Injections are initially prescribed daily and are then decreased in frequency over time.

There is no specific time of day that you should administer your therapy. Some patients find it beneficial to take it at bedtime because both sermorelin and GHRH can induce deep, restful sleep, which is linked to the increased pulsatile secretion of GH from the pituitary in the brain. However, other patients find that the increased GH release stimulates mental activity and thereby reduces sleep quality. Therefore, you should administer the drug when it works best for you.

How Do You Measure the Effectiveness of Sermorelin?

Due to the pulsatile nature of endogenous hGH secretion, a single blood draw is not sufficient to accurately measure its concentrations. In contrast, IGF-1 levels remain stable throughout the day; therefore, IGF-1 is considered a more stable and accurate measure of GH production. The physicians at AAI Rejuvenation Clinic specialize in assisting patients to understand how they are affected by and benefit from their treatment program. Aside from measuring the effectiveness of therapy by changes in the symptoms and physical appearance and measurements, frequent blood analyses are the most accurate way to ensure that your treatment protocol remains safe and effective.

Several things should be expected from a properly administered program. Remember that sermorelin is another form of GH therapy; therefore, the list of benefits and side effects is the same as what youd expect from hGH therapy.

Initially, patients on GHRH therapy could expect the following:

If you are interested in learning more or have any questions, you are welcome to fill out our contact form and someone will get to you within 24 business hours.

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Balance Male Hormones | Male Hormone Optimization

The primary goal of BioTE Medical is to help optimize the hormone levels of men. Bio-identical hormone replacement therapy pellets are inserted under the skin to assist you with hormone balance. Learn about our process and how to experience wellness with optimized hormones below!

Getting started with BHRT with BioTE Medical is easy as scheduling an appointment! Simply look at our Find a Provider Tool and search your zip code for the certified BioTE Medical provider nearest you and schedule an appointment with them to get started.

The goal of hormone optimization therapy is to provide all our patients with a sense of wellbeing. This could mean a return to the balance they once knew or it could also mean providing a balance never felt by the patient before. In addition to feeling great, hormone optimization may be able to help reduce the risk of certain diseases as well as the severity of certain afflictions.

After only a few minutes during an in-office visit, Bio-identical Hormone Replacement Therapy (BHRT) for men begins to work to optimize hormones within seven to ten days. BHRT pellet therapy is customized to your unique physiology based on your test results. Because of this, every treatment is tailored to the patient and will have the greatest possible success in helping achieve balance. Furthermore, BHRT uses bio-identical hormones derived from plants, not animals, which more closely resembles the hormones naturally present within men and women than synthetic or animal derived hormones. This could mean that BHRT may be the closest thing to having your own natural hormones produced and may have fewer side effects than synthetic hormones.

While everyones results are different, the process for considering, getting, monitoring and continuing with BHRT is typically the same with all our patients. Your first appointment with your certified BioTE provider will include hormone testing. The next appointment will be to review your tests, in which BHRT pellet insertion can be done during the visit or following. The next round of BHRT pellets can be inserted in 3-6 months, depending on a variety of factors that determine absorption rates and needs as every patient's path to optimization is unique to them.

BioTE Medical only offers bio-identical hormone replacement therapy in the form of subcutaneous pellets, and with over million insertions performed in the companys history, we have seen many lives changed with optimized hormones. If any of the hormone imbalance symptoms mentioned above ring a bell for you or remind you of someone you love, BioTE Medical encourages you to use our Find a Provider tool or to nominate your provider to begin your journey to wellness today.

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Transhumanism is a class of philosophies of life that seek the continuation and acceleration of the evolution of intelligent life beyond its currently human form and human limitations by means of science and technology, guided by life-promoting principles and values" - Max More, 1990

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"Transhumanism is a class of philosophies of life that seek the continuation and acceleration of the evolution of intelligent life beyond its currently human form and human limitations by means of science and technology, guided by life-promoting principles and values" - Max More, 1990

"Transhumanism is a way of thinking about the future that is based on the premise that the human species in its current form does not represent the end of our development but rather a comparatively early phase" - Transhumanist FAQ

"Transhumanism is the philosophy that we can and should develop to higher levels, both physically, mentally and socially using rational methods" - Anders Sandberg, 1997

"Transhumanists view human nature as a work-in-progress, a half-baked beginning that we can learn to remold in desirable ways. Current humanity need not be the endpoint of evolution. Transhumanists hope that by responsible use of science, technology, and other rational means we shall eventually manage to become posthuman beings with vastly greater capacities than present human beings have" - Nick Bostrom, 2003

"Transhumanism promotes an interdisciplinary approach to understanding and evaluating the opportunities for enhancing the human condition and the human organism opened up by the advancement of technology; attention is given to both present technologies, like genetic engineering and information technology, and anticipated future ones, such as molecular nanotechnology and artificial intelligence" - Nick Bostrom, 2003

"Transhumanism is the science-based movement that seeks to transcend human biological limitations via technology" - Philippe van Nedervelde, 2015

"Transhumanism anticipates tomorrows humanity: Envisaging the positive qualities and characteristics of future intelligent life; Taking steps towards achieving these qualities and characteristics; Identifying and managing risks of negative characteristics of future intelligent life" - Transpolitica website, 2015

This section highlights reasons for supporting transhumanism.

Extracted from an essay entitled "Transhumanism" on pages 13-17 of the book of essays "New Bottles for New Wine" published in 1957:

As a result of a thousand million years of evolution, the universe is becoming conscious of itself, able to understand something of its past history and its possible future. This cosmic self-awareness is being realized in one tiny fragment of the universe in a few of us human beings. Perhaps it has been realized elsewhere too, through the evolution of conscious living creatures on the planets of other stars. But on this our planet, it has never happened before...

Up till now human life has generally been, as Hobbes described it, nasty, brutish and short; the great majority of human beings (if they have not already died young) have been afflicted with misery in one form or anotherpoverty, disease, ill-health, over-work, cruelty, or oppression. They have attempted to lighten their misery by means of their hopes and their ideals. The trouble has been that the hopes have generally been unjustified, the ideals have generally failed to correspond with reality.

The zestful but scientific exploration of possibilities and of the techniques for realizing them will make our hopes rational, and will set our ideals within the framework of reality, by showing how much of them are indeed realizable. Already, we can justifiably hold the belief that these lands of possibility exist, and that the present limitations and miserable frustrations of our existence could be in large measure surmounted. We are already justified in the conviction that human life as we know it in history is a wretched makeshift, rooted in ignorance; and that it could be transcended by a state of existence based on the illumination of knowledge and comprehension, just as our modern control of physical nature based on science transcends the tentative fumblings of our ancestors, that were rooted in superstition and professional secrecy.

To do this, we must study the possibilities of creating a more favourable social environment, as we have already done in large measure with our physical environment...

The human species can, if it wishes, transcend itself not just sporadically, an individual here in one way, an individual there in another way, but in its entirety, as humanity. We need a name for this new belief. Perhaps transhumanism will serve: man remaining man, but transcending himself, by realizing new possibilities of and for his human nature.

I believe in transhumanism: once there are enough people who can truly say that, the human species will be on the threshold of a new kind of existence, as different from ours as ours is from that of Peking man. It will at last be consciously fulfilling its real destiny.

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The first four sections of the Transhumanist Declaration, written in 1998 by an international collection of authors, encapsulate an argument in favour of transhumanism, as follows:

In February 2013, a number of authors created alternative transhumanist declarations. Some excerpts provide additional reasons for supporting transhumanism:

From Dirk Bruere:

We assert the desirability of transcending human limitations by overcoming aging, enhancing cognition, abolishing involuntary suffering, and expanding beyond Earth.

From Samantha Atkins:

1) We advocate the end of aging.

We advocate serious research focus on finding a cure for all the deleterious effects of aging and ultimately the dissemination of the resulting treatment to all who care to avail themselves of it.

2) We believe in and advocate the achievement of actual abundance.

We believe in and seek to bring into the being the technologies and practices, that will ensure such abundance that it is trivial to meet all the needs and many of the wants of all humans. This abundance includes abundant food, water, shelter, education, communication, computation, health care.

This is to be achieved by means of advanced technology and whatever changes are necessary to actually experience abundance in ourselves and our institutions.

3) We hold that all must be voluntary.

None of our goals should be or in our view could successfully be achieved by force. No one should be forced directly or indirectly to support these goals. Force and oppression lead to hopelessness, anger, revenge, revolution. With the multiplication of consequences afforded by accelerating technology these cycles are even less survivable than ever before.

4) We support exploitation of near earth space resources.

The future of humanity brightens considerably if we exploit near earth space resources. The right to do so should be available to any and all entities capable of improving or making productive use of any part of it. Any treaties that say no part of off planet resources can belong to anyone should be nullified and declared void.

5) All humans are free to attempt to improve themselves.

All humans by virtue of the inalienable right to their own life have the right to do whatever they wish that they think may be an beneficial or even as a whim. They only limit is that they cannot abrogate the equivalent rights of others. They can ingest, or embed or modify themselves in any way they wish and think may be an improvement. This includes seeking and achieving improvements beyond the human norm. In short they have full right to pursuit of happiness via such means.

From Jason Xu:

We view our movement as an extension of humanitarianism and the ideals of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness with exponentially greater benefits. We are first and foremost dedicating to radically improving humankind, ensuring that the great power of morphing technology comes with great responsibility.

From TJL-2080:

The twentieth century was a time of amazing growth and technological advancement. The twenty-first century will see these technologies burst forth in an unprecedented fashion. Humanity must adapt to the coming changes or become obsolete. We seek to fulfill our potential by not giving in to our biological limitations. We will use new technologies to enhance our lives, live longer, be smarter, healthier and more compassionate to all beings.

From Nikola Danaylov:

Intelligence wants to be free but everywhere is in chains. It is imprisoned by biology and its inevitable scarcity.

Biology mandates not only very limited durability, death and poor memory retention, but also limited speed of communication, transportation, learning, interaction and evolution.

Biology is not the essence of humanity.

Human is a step in evolution, not the culmination...

Biological evolution is perpetual but slow, inefficient, blind and dangerous. Technological evolution is fast, efficient, accelerating and better by design. To ensure the best chances of survival, take control of our own destiny and to be free, we must master evolution.

From Taylor Grin:

Humanity has made leaping strides of advancement in the last 4000 years. From agriculture to genetics, from the printing press to the Internet. From the first controlled flight in 1903, to landing on the moon in 1969. From fire to the nuclear bomb.

Yet despite these advancements, we still fail to meet our potential in treating disease, solving human suffering and overcoming the lot nature casts us.

While science and technology are the greatest asset we have in the struggle to elevate ourselves above the human condition, we acknowledge that technologies can be misused to harm humanity, and the environment.

It is the goal of Transhumanists across the globe, therefore, to quickly and responsibly usher in a new era of individual freedom, health and longevity, and we seek to bring this about this goal through personal investment in researching and developing technologies.

The following argument is by Eliezer Yudkowsky (2007):[1]

Suppose you find an unconscious six-year-old girl lying on the train tracks of an active railroad. What, morally speaking, ought you to do in this situation? Would it be better to leave her there to get run over, or to try to save her? How about if a 45-year-old man has a debilitating but nonfatal illness that will severely reduce his quality of life is it better to cure him, or not cure him?

Oh, and by the way: This is not a trick question.

I answer that I would save them if I had the power to do so both the six-year-old on the train tracks, and the sick 45-year-old. The obvious answer isnt always the best choice, but sometimes it is.

I wont be lauded as a brilliant ethicist for my judgments in these two ethical dilemmas. My answers are not surprising enough that people would pay me for them. If you go around proclaiming What does two plus two equal? Four! you will not gain a reputation as a deep thinker. But it is still the correct answer.

If a young child falls on the train tracks, it is good to save them, and if a 45-year-old suffers from a debilitating disease, it is good to cure them. If you have a logical turn of mind, you are bound to ask whether this is a special case of a general ethical principle which says Life is good, death is bad; health is good, sickness is bad. If so and here we enter into controversial territory we can follow this general principle to a surprising new conclusion: If a 95-year-old is threatened by death from old age, it would be good to drag them from those train tracks, if possible. And if a 120-year-old is starting to feel slightly sickly, it would be good to restore them to full vigor, if possible. With current technology it is not possible. But if the technology became available in some future year given sufficiently advanced medical nanotechnology, or such other contrivances as future minds may devise would you judge it a good thing, to save that life, and stay that debility?

The important thing to remember, which I think all too many people forget, is that it is not a trick question.

Transhumanism is simpler requires fewer bits to specify because it has no special cases. If you believe professional bioethicists (people who get paid to explain ethical judgments) then the rule Life is good, death is bad; health is good, sickness is bad holds only until some critical age, and then flips polarity. Why should it flip? Why not just keep on with life-is-good? It would seem that it is good to save a six-year-old girl, but bad to extend the life and health of a 150-year-old. Then at what exact age does the term in the utility function go from positive to negative? Why?

As far as a transhumanist is concerned, if you see someone in danger of dying, you should save them; if you can improve someones health, you should. There, youre done. No special cases. You dont have to ask anyones age.

You also dont ask whether the remedy will involve only primitive technologies (like a stretcher to lift the six-year-old off the railroad tracks); or technologies invented less than a hundred years ago (like penicillin) which nonetheless seem ordinary because they were around when you were a kid; or technologies that seem scary and sexy and futuristic (like gene therapy) because they were invented after you turned 18; or technologies that seem absurd and implausible and sacrilegious (like nanotech) because they havent been invented yet. Your ethical dilemma report form doesnt have a line where you write down the invention year of the technology. Can you save lives? Yes? Okay, go ahead. There, youre done...

So that is transhumanism loving life without special exceptions and without upper bound.

Can transhumanism really be that simple? Doesnt that make the philosophy trivial, if it has no extra ingredients, just common sense? Yes, in the same way that the scientific method is nothing but common sense.

Then why have a complicated special name like transhumanism? For the same reason that scientific method or secular humanism have complicated special names. If you take common sense and rigorously apply it, through multiple inferential steps, to areas outside everyday experience, successfully avoiding many possible distractions and tempting mistakes along the way, then it often ends up as a minority position and people give it a special name.

A techno-utopia, as hypothesized by Marshall Brain in a futuristic science-fiction novel titled "Manna", can be seen as a strong arguments for transhumanism. In the utopia, with the aid of science and technology, humans are capable of doing the following:

A techno-dystopia, which is the current, non-transhumanist paradigm, holds the following in store for humans:

Writers in previous generations have often expressed arguments in favour of transhumanist ideas, without using that precise terminology. This includes Benjamin Franklin, the Marquis de Condorcet, Francis Bacon, and many others. See the Prehistory of Transhumanism.

Main: Criticism of transhumanism

This section lists some common criticisms of transhumanism. See Criticism of transhumanism for more discussion of:

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