I'll just quote my mother, god bless her, as she spoke to me about the cost of the acetyl-L-carnitine and other various supplements she has found very effective in alleviating some of the age related changes she is experiencing at 60 years old.
Our generation (the baby boomers) have accumulated a lot of money and we're going to spend every last dime of your inheritance staying alive.
To which I replied that I was moving back home.
The point being that there will be a HUGE demand for anti-aging approaches in the upcoming years by people with the money to afford them and support the research. As nuggets of hope emerge into the popular conciousness that at the very least a person can avoid to a large degree age-related decline in their faculties, the religious right will be nothing more than the background music playing on the Titanic as the aging rush and cling to whatever safety boats they can find. I think that co-operation between the various proponents of life-extension such Michael West and Biomarker herald a new level in the fight against aging that bodes well for everyone, especially my mom.
