The Longevity Delusion: Money, Myths and Bad Science

The search for a world in which old age is a curable disease, and death is optional, unites billionaires, politicians and celebrities.The longevity industry is a vast, pseudo-medical enterprise that has spawned countless bestselling books, social media frenzies and a huge network of conferences and pharmacological research. Seamus O'Mahony casts his sceptical and acerbic eye over this landscape in his brilliant quest to uncover the truth behind an industry - largely funded by Silicon Valley billionaires - which feeds off the gullibility of rich investors and death-phobic consumers.The antidotes: expensive drugs, stem cell therapy, gene therapy and intermittent fasting.He draws upon real scientific evidence to cut through the nonsense and to make a serious case for why longevity is a delusion, and why this industry is unlikely to find a real solution to the inevitability of ageing. This narrative takes O’Mahony’s investigation deep into the world of longevity ‘experts’ as he attends the