From: John M Grigg (starman125@lycos.com)
Date: Tue Aug 22 2000 - 02:23:11 MDT
Max wrote:
Chris Heward spoke about this idea back at Extro-1 and Extro-2, and it has recently become the Kronos Group, based in Arizona, but with clinics planned to open in many cities. The program involves a full day of testing of numerous physiological functions, and then carefully personalized recommendations. They do not want to be described as a "life extension" group, but as involved in "age management".
Natasha and I will be going through the program next month. They will do a follow-up in six months, and then I think once a year. I'll be happy to report on my experience there in about a month.
Their web site is:
http://www.thekronosgroup.com/
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I read over the website and found it fascinating to say the least. I thought they had a very realisitic attitude toward managing aging in terms of it being inevitable(for now). And yet making it a somewhat controlled process by personalizing a program to slow it and avoid debilitating diseases. This organization is an idea whose idea has come.
I can easily guess that the services of Kronos do not come cheap... I am curious to know just how expensive they are. These clinics will definitely be for those who have fought and succeeded in the economic arena. Or at least had a wealthy mate/friend/relative who did and shared with them the bounty. I wonder if even on a teacher's salary(should I ever graduate from college...) I could afford their services a decade from now? I will than be an ancient forty-three year old.
I was a little disturbed about the section of the website about executive fitness. I can understand a corporation wanting to know the mental and physical fitness of their key employees but I could see this being abused. "Yep, this med report proves the old man is losing it, can him!"
I really look forward to reading the accounts of you and Natasha visiting Kronos. I would think both of you would get glowing bills of good health. Or at least bills.. :)
best wishes,
John
P.S. At the rate cryonics research is going I definitely want both of you in this program! lol
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