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Longevity Science Is Having Its Moment
The Wall Street Journal|January 15, 2025
Incoming president's picks for the country's top health jobs have ties to the antiaging field now edging into the mainstream
- Alex Janin
Longevity Science Is Having Its Moment

Longevity enthusiasts are ascendant in the second Trump administration. The incoming president's picks for the country's top health jobs have ties to the longevity field and in some cases have been customers themselves. Scientists and entrepreneurs say they hope the new administration will make it easier to develop antiaging treatments and boost research funding.

Such changes would further expand a once-fringe industry now edging into the mainstream. The field still has plenty of detractors, but longevity practices from supplements to IV drips to off-label drug use have become more common, boosted by health podcasters, fitness bros and some traditional doctors.

"The science around aging has hit a tipping point where it's too big and too exciting for any government to ignore," says James Peyer, chief executive of longevity biotech Cambrian Bio and board director of a longevity biotechnology nonprofit.

Antiaging ties

Robert F. Kennedy Jr., President-elect Donald Trump's pick to lead the Department of Health and Human Services, said on a 2023 podcast he follows an antiaging protocol, adding that he takes too many vitamins to list. On an episode of Joe Rogan's podcast that same year, Rogan told Kennedy that he had taken NAD+, a supplement popular among longevity enthusiasts, and Kennedy replied, "I did all the same stuff."

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