A new era may be upon us: a time in which medical science may extend the human life span by a hundred years or more and eradicate age-related disease such as cancer, stroke, Alzheimer's, and heart disease. Researchers may have already located the aging clock in each of our cells that could unlock the secret to vitality and longevity. Even at age one hundred, our bodies could function like those of healthy teenagers - our bones would heal, our skin would bloom, our immune systems and nervous systems would remain strong, our blood pressure and cholesteral levels would remain low. Dr. Fossel offers a fascinating expedition into the revolutionary present and future of anti-aging medicine. "Reversing Human Aging" is a book that every individual concerned about health and longevity should read.
Born in 1950 in Greenwich, Connecticut in the United States, Michael Fossel grew up New York, and lived in London, Palo Alto, San Francisco, Portland, and Denver. He graduated cum laude from Phillips Exeter Academy, received a joint BA (cum laude) and MA in psychology in four years from Wesleyan University in Connecticut, and, after completing a PhD in neurobiology at Stanford University in 1978, went on to finish his MD at Stanford Medical School in two and a half years. He was awarded a National Science Foundation Fellowship and taught at Stanford University, where he began studying aging, emphasizing premature aging syndromes. Dr. Fossel is a Clinical Professor of Medicine at Michigan State University.
He is a Fellow of the American College of Emergency Physicians, and a member of numerous scientific organizations including the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the American Aging Association (he was their executive director and serves on their board of directors), the American Gerontological Society, the American Society on Aging, and the American Geriatrics Society, among others.
He has lectured at the National Institute for Health, the Smithsonian Institute, and at universities and institutes internationally. He was founding editor of the Journal of Anti-Aging Medicine. His numerous articles on aging and ethics in the Journal of the American Medical Association, In Vivo, and other academic journals have sparked discussion and frequent calls for him to speak worldwide to both medical groups and the general public. He is frequently interviewed regarding aging by major media in the US and worldwide.
In 1996, Dr. Fossel published Reversing Human Aging, discussing the cellular causes of aging, how the process can be altered, and the social and financial implications of reversing human aging. The book was reviewed favorably in national full page newspaper articles and in Scientific American. It has now been published in six languages. He has appeared on Good Morning America, ABC 20/20, NBC Extra, Fox Network, CNN, the BBC, the Discovery Channel, and regularly on NPR.
His textbook, Cells, Aging, and Human Disease, was published in 2004 by Oxford University Press. An extensive look at the field, with well over four thousand up-to-date references, it reviews the entire fields of telomere biology and cell senescence as they apply to human clinical diseases and aging. It includes in depth discussions of Alzheimer's disease, the progerias, atherosclerosis, osteoporosis, immune senescence, skin aging, and cancer, as well as the potential for fundamentally new therapies for these diseases.
