About us

Aging long seemed like something that simply happened to you. But since Shinya Yamanaka showed in 2006 that cells can be rejuvenated, more and more scientists view aging not as an inevitable fate, but as a process you can influence.

That opens up a world of research, and of noise. LongevityWatch follows that science and rewrites the results that truly matter into clear, accessible language.

We follow sources such as Nature, Cell, eLife, Frontiers and other peer-reviewed journals, and make a daily selection of the most relevant research.

To do this at scale, we work with AI-assisted content selection and editing. Every article is based on a reputable scientific source and links to the original, so you can always verify and read further yourself. What we add is context, interpretation and accessibility.

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Alongside articles, our knowledge center answers concrete reader questions about healthy aging. Every answer is based on scientific research: we search PubMed, back each claim with at least one study, give an honest evidence label (strong, moderate or limited) and list all sources beneath the answer. So you can check every claim yourself.

LongevityWatch is an initiative of Alex van Leeuwen, active in technology and software since 2000 as an entrepreneur and investor, with a fascination for the impact of new science on society. More about Alex.