U.S. Transhumanist Party Comments on the Citizen Petition by Age Reversal Unity to Declare Aging a Disease
Gennady Stolyarov II
The following comments were submitted by Gennady Stolyarov II, Chairman of the United States Transhumanist Party, on November 19, 2024, in support of the Citizen Petition by Age Reversal Unity to request that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) take the following three actions described below:
(1) Initiate proceedings to reclassify aging from a natural process to a disease for the purposes of regulation and research.
(2) Review and consider the scientific and medical evidence presented in support of this reclassification.
(3) Amend relevant FDA policies and regulations to reflect the reclassification of aging as a disease.
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The U.S. Transhumanist Party also encourages you to view and sign the Citizen Petition by Age Reversal Unity.
As Chairman of the United States Transhumanist Party, I write in support of this petition for the FDA to promulgate a new regulation that defines aging as a disease for the purposes of research, treatment, and prevention.
The Transhumanist Party is an alliance of over 4600 members who advocate for transcending the flaws and limitations of the human condition through technology and for putting science, health, and technology at the forefront of American politics. We champion initiatives and reforms that will improve the human condition for as many people as possible, with as much beneficial impact as possible. Our first Core Ideal is the pursuit of significant life extension, achieved through the progress of science and technology. Without effective ways to address the damage inflicted by biological aging at the cellular and molecular level, such significant life extension would not be possible. Aging greatly increases the probability of each of the disease conditions that are statistically most likely to end an individual’s life. However, without the classification of biological aging as an indication that can be targeted by therapies, drugs, or medical devices, many researchers and companies would not see a clear pathway for any such potential treatment to regulatory approval and delivery to patients. Accordingly, much beneficial and life-saving research is likely to be deterred, and many financial resources might never flow into the biomedical rejuvenation field, unless the FDA recognizes biological aging as a disease and signals openness to reviewing therapies, drugs, and medical devices that would seek to reverse biological aging directly, instead of solely targeting specific disease conditions.
The Transhumanist Party urges the FDA to open the way toward revolutionary, life-saving medicine, which will greatly extend healthy, productive lifespans of as many Americans as will be alive in time to benefit from these advances. The correct time to classify aging as a disease was decades ago. The next-best time is as soon as possible. Over 110,000 people die of causes related to biological aging every day, and every day closer to medically achieved age reversal will mean the opportunity to save such an astonishingly high number of irreplaceable individual human beings.
Sincerely,
Gennady Stolyarov II
Chairman, United States Transhumanist Party