We want to live long, but we don’t want to become old. Scientific approaches to achieving healthy old age are grounded in biogerontology, which are changing the paradigm from “anti-ageing” to health maintenance. Ageing is not a disease; there are no ageing causing genes; and there is no “enemy within” our cells. Ageing occurs in spite of the presence of complex pathways of maintenance, repair and defence. A wholistic strategy towards healthy ageing is that of mild stress-induced hormesis through physical-, nutritional- and mental hormetins.

SURESH RATTAN Ph.D.,Dr.scient., heads the Laboratory of Cellular Ageing, at the Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Aarhus University, Denmark. He is the recipient of the Lord Cohen Medal in Gerontology from the British Society for Research on Ageing (BSRA), and an Honorary Doctorate from the Russian Academy of Medical Sciences. He is the present Chairman of the Biological Section of the European Region of the International Association of Gerontology and Geriatrics (IAGG-ER). He has published more than 230 scientific articles, and has compiled 15 books, including books for children, general public and research scientists. He is the founder and Editor-in-Chief of Biogerontology – an international peer reviewed journal published by Springer.

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Associate Professor Suresh Rattan, the Laboratory of Cellular Ageing, Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Aarhus University

His personal website is: http://www.sureshrattan.com