metadata: {"type": "project", "title": "Party for Biomedical Rejuvenation Research", "logoImg": "bafkreihjcnfixlpxbbkjqs4lcfpkt3nsgesq2cwragcmkfaeqfc2z7bvay", "website": "https://parteifuergesundheitsforschung.de", "bannerImg": "bafybeibbpak2goh53rwirfh7mpkxtpndypjkk6ipa23kx365yrlsjr33qe", "createdAt": 1671100447193, "credentials": {}, "description": "The German Party for Biomedical Rejuvenation Research is advocating for much more government investments in Germany into rejuvenation research. It is a political single-issue party that participates in elections in Germany. It uses the election campaigns to promote anti-aging research e.g. by hanging up election posters, airing commercials in TV and radio, being covered by the media and having its name on the ballot paper. Also it gives people an additional easy option to support Rejuvenation Research, namely with their vote. A vote costs no money and very little time. One of the goals of the party is also to get life extension research more into public discussion.\n\nWith more funding the party could do more advocacy, e.g. by hanging up more election posters and distributing more flyers. This is very efficient advocacy. A Din A1 Poster costs in total only about 3 Euro and it also can be reused in several elections.\n\nCurrently the party asks for donations for its election campaign for the Berlin state election on February 12th 2023.\n\nEvery small donation helps to spread the word.\nAccording to the law, parties in Germany are not allowed to receive more than 1000 Euro per year per donor from donors, who live outside the European Union, with the exception of Germans who live outside the European Union. Anonymous donations are not allowed to exceed 500 Euro per donation.\n\nThe election program for the Berlin state election:\n\u201cThe Party for Health Research was renamed the Party for Biomedical Rejuvenation Research on Nov. 27, 2022. In the 2023 Berlin House of Representatives election, however, the party will still run under the old name Party for Health Research, as this is prescribed in the state election law for a repeat election.\nThe Party for Health Research is committed to the faster development of medicine with which people, through rejuvenation, are unlikely to die of old-age related diseases or old age itself and can live thousands of years, physically and mentally healthy.To this end, an additional 10 percent of Berlin\u2019s state budget is to be invested in this area, in the construction and operation of additional research facilities and in the training of more people in the relevant fields, which includes the expansion of the relevant departments at universities such as biochemistry, molecular biology, and medicine.\nThe Party for Health Research wants to leave all other political issues to the other parties. These can be dealt with by the coalition partners in case of participation in a government coalition.\nExplanation:\nAging causes suffering and death\nCurrently, more than 100,000 people die every day from diseases of old age such as cancer, Alzheimer\u2019s disease, and cardiovascular disease. The main risk factor for diseases of aging is advanced biological age.\nCuring aging with the repair approach and enabling indefinitely long healthy life\nIn recent years, a new approach has become established in aging research, the so-called Damage Repair Approach. In the course of aging, harmful changes occur in the body as a result of normal metabolism, among other things, which, above a certain level, lead to diseases of old age. By repairing this damage at the molecular and cellular level, it is very likely that in the future it will be possible to biologically rejuvenate people and thus prevent all diseases of old age. After rejuvenation, people will continue to age because the damage would continue to occur. However, if rejuvenation medicine, which scientists will improve over time, is then applied repeatedly at regular intervals, people could live virtually indefinitely. In the process, they would have the appearance and physical and mental health and fitness of a young adult. Aging would thus be curable, so to speak.\nThe repair approach is relatively simple to implement\nReversing aging through the repair approach is much easier to implement than, for example, slowing aging by intervening in the metabolism. This is because metabolism is very complex and also not yet well understood. Trying to alter metabolism to cause less damage would likely do more harm than good because metabolism is so intertwined and complicated. In contrast, to implement the repair approach, one does not need to understand metabolism, but only to know the damage and how to repair it. All damages can be divided into a manageable number of categories. Such categories include protein linkages, mitochondrial mutations, and waste products inside and outside cells. It can be assumed that all types of damage are already known and that it is also known how to repair them in principle.\nWith appropriate funding, implementation is possible in about 10 to 20 years\nWe don\u2019t need any breakthrough ideas or discoveries anymore, we just need to implement the repair approach. This is a lot of work, however, because there are thousands of different types of damage, and for each type of damage, a different medicine must be developed to repair it. At present, very few scientists worldwide are working on the implementation of the repair approach, i.e. the medicine for only a small part of the damage is under development. However, if thousands of research groups would start working on the implementation of the repair approach and each research group were to develop medicine for different damage in parallel, then we would probably have medicine for thousands of different damages in about 10 to 20 years and could thus rejuvenate people to such an extent that they would no longer have to die from aging.\nThe repair approach is already established\nThe scientific publication \u201eThe Hallmarks of Aging,\u201c which describes the repair approach, is the most cited scientific publication in the field of aging research in the last decade. Numerous startups, research institutes, and university research groups are already working on implementing the repair approach, but unfortunately not nearly enough.\nMore and more well-known, prestigious and influential individuals and organizations are also investing billions in aging research. For example, Google founded the company Calico, which aims to cure aging. Amazon founder Jeff Bezos is investing in the company Altos Labs, which also addresses aging. Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg and his wife want their organization CZI to help cure, prevent or manage all diseases by the end of the century, and German web.de founder Michael Greve is investing several hundred million euros with his company Kizoo to implement the repair approach.\nConcerns and objections regarding the abolition of age-related death bear no relation to the suffering caused by aging today\nIf people stay young and healthy forever through rejuvenation medicine and no longer die from aging, they will theoretically live indefinitely, or until they succumb to another cause of death, such as an accident.\nOf course, new problems may arise as a result of this revolution. However, every invention and exploration of new approaches carries opportunities as well as risks. We believe that societal risks should not stop us from developing rejuvenation medicine that can solve the humanitarian problem of aging. Instead, we should be open to the challenge of solving future societal problems that might accompany rejuvenation medicine and engage in more discussion about them with each other.\nIndeed, good solutions already exist for virtually all of the problems cited in connection with strong life extension. For example, the objection to overpopulation can be answered by saying that new technologies such as renewable energies and meat from the laboratory will enable the earth to cope with many more people in the future. And experience from industrialized countries shows that the birth rate falls as wealth and education levels rise.\nSince we already know how to develop rejuvenation medicine through the repair approach and scientists are already working on it, the question is no longer whether we can or should develop this medicine, but how fast this development can proceed and when we want to reap the benefits of this development. So it would not be a solution to any problems if we did not accelerate the development of rejuvenation medicine.\nAnother point is that these eventual problems are disproportionate to the current problem of more than 100,000 deaths per day from aging. They are nowhere near as large and could very likely be solved, so they cannot be an argument for not accelerating the development of effective anti-aging medicine. Or to put it another way: In an ageless world, we would not solve these problems by inventing and introducing aging and all its associated diseases either.\nThe fact that some people defend age-related death so vehemently can be explained as follows: In the past, nothing could be done about biological aging. At the same time, age-related death is so frightening and the thought of it so stressful that people repress it or gloss over it to protect their psyche. This was a reasonable coping strategy as long as we were powerless in the face of aging. Now, however, when we have a good chance to abolish age-related death in the near future through the repair approach, this psychological self-protection has become a major problem because it stands in the way of faster implementation of the repair approach.\nHigh urgency from an ethical and economic point of view\nOur Basic Law states as a fundamental right that everyone has the right to life. You do not lose this right when you are old.\nHow much is now invested in implementing the repair approach in the coming years could be decisive for each individual as to whether they belong to the last generation to die from aging or they belong to the first generation to live indefinitely in the best of health.\nNow that we know that we can very likely cure aging in the foreseeable future, it is unacceptable that not much more government investment is going into this area. From an ethical point of view, this is urgently needed.\nFrom an economic point of view, too, the more rapid development of rejuvenation medicine would be very beneficial. A great deal of money would be saved by eliminating the costs of illness and care. In addition, rejuvenation medicine will be one of the largest economic sectors of the future, as everyone is affected by aging. Investing more in this area now could export knowledge and medicine in the future.\nThat is why we are calling for much more government investment\nThat is why the Party for Health Research calls for a significant additional portion of the state budget to be invested in implementing the repair approach.\nPositive effects on other areas as well\nAn indefinitely long healthy life for all can also help solve many other major problems of today. For example, it is often said that the older generation does not care about the environment and climate because they are unlikely to experience the consequences themselves. If this were true, with unlimited life expectancy, many more people would be concerned about climate protection and do their part to help overcome the climate crisis.\nAging causes a great deal of suffering worldwide. If we act together globally against this, this can unite mankind.\nLet\u2019s take the chance now! Vote for us!\nMany people avoid the topic or do not yet know about our chance. Hardly anyone actively calls for more research in this area \u2013 for example, there are no large demonstrations for it. The development of medicine against aging is still not an issue in public discussion. Since our party exclusively represents this one issue, everyone can show the other parties how important this issue is by voting for us in the House of Representatives election. The better we do in the election, the more likely the other parties will recognize the relevance of our issue and address it more. A vote for the Party for Health Research is therefore not a wasted vote, even if we do not reach the 5 percent hurdle in this election.\nLet\u2019s seize the opportunity now to eradicate the suffering caused by aging.\nWith your vote, we can reach that goal faster.\u201d\n", "logoImgData": {}, "bannerImgData": {}}
name: Party for Biomedical Rejuvenation Research