Life Extension Activities
Best is active in the field of biogerontology. He regularly attends biogerontological conferences and has debated with Aubrey de Grey in the Community Bulletin Board of SAGE KE. His monograph Mechanisms of Aging was reprinted in the Anti-Aging Clinical Protocols 2004-2005 of the American Academy of Anti-Aging Medicine. Best's review "Nuclear DNA damage as a direct cause of aging" challenges the OncoSENS claim that nuclear DNA damage only matters for aging because of cancer.
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