The expert collects the most recent data regarding the biology of aging and its tracks to drive back limitations. — Sciences et Avenir 

Today, there are 31,000 centenarians and 150 supercentenarians (aged 110) in France. Some optimistic projections suggest that there will be 200,000 centenarians by 2050. With the early management of ageing, which we can already do, and which we will be able to do with new discoveries, we can say that we will be able to reach 120 years of age in good health within the century. And I wouldn’t be surprised if we surpassed Jeanne Calment’s 122 years. – Jean-Marc Lemaitre in an interview with Aline Richard, Le Figaro Santé

Today, a vast field of research is opening up to identify the molecules and treatments (cell and gene therapies, etc.) that will turn us into healthy centenarians. […] A few scientists, including Jean-Marc Lemaitre, have achieved the feat of rejuvenating animals through reprogramming. More importantly, in 2022, he published results on mice in which all the cells are reprogrammable thanks to the price of an antibiotic that awakens the rejuvenation factors. – Olivier Hertel and Caroline Tourbe, Le Point, August 4, 2024

The Montpellier-based researcher is working in association with a cosmetics giant on skin reprogramming. He is also developing cell therapy programs around clinical trials targeting osteoarthritis. – Olivier Hertel and Caroline Tourbe, Le Point, August 4, 2024

My project, still to this is day, is to explore two anti-aging strategies which, one day, will enable us to live much longer in good health. For I am convinced that old age is an illness that can be cured. My starting hypothesis is that the ailments we suffer as we age are due, in part, to two biological phenomena: the accumulation over the years of so-called “senescent” cells, and the “deprogramming” of other, aging cells. These developments can be countered, and even reversed, by rejuvenating these cells. At the time, such a research objective aroused the astonishment and skepticism of many colleagues… – Jean-Marc Lemaitre in interview with Aline Richard, Le Figaro Santé

For the first time ever, a book that’s both reader-friendly and fueled by the latest scientific data shows us concretely how to extend our youth!

The author, Jean-Marc Lemaître, an expert in longevity mechanisms at France’s National Institute of Health and Medical Research (INSERM), is a world-renowned, cutting-edge researcher in the fight against aging.

By reprograming cells, he and his team managed to increase healthy life expectancy in animals by 30%. Now he is working on a method that would allow individuals to learn their biological age, i.e. their true age – which can differ from their chronological age. That would allow doctors to evaluate the speed at which we are aging in order to slow the process down with personalized care. A new branch of medicine focused on longevity.

This book, written for the general public, describes simple strategies that already exist and are easy to put into place, as well as innovations currently in development to allow us all to live and stay healthy longer.