Fantastic Voyage: Live Long Enough to Live Forever, published in 2004, is a book authored by Ray Kurzweil and Terry Grossman. The basic premise of the book is that if middle aged people can live long enough, until approximately 120, they will be able to live forever -- as we overcome all diseases and old age itself. 2004 (MMIV) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Dr. Raymond Kurzweil (born February 12, 1948) is a pioneer in the fields of optical character recognition (OCR), text-to-speech synthesis, speech recognition technology, and electronic musical keyboards. ... Terry Grossman is an author and medical director of the Frontier Medical Institute in Denver, Colorado. ... Immortality (or eternal life) is the concept of existing for a potentially infinite, or indeterminate length, of time. ...

The book focuses primarily on health topics such as heart disease, cancer, and type 2 diabetes. It promotes lifestyle changes such as a low glycemic index diet, exercise, drinking green tea and alkalinized water, and other changes to daily living. They also promote aggressive supplementation to make up for nutrient deficiencies they believe are common in Western society. There are different forms of heart disease: Coronary heart disease Ischaemic heart disease Cardiovascular disease The study of the heart (and diseases of the heart) is Cardiology This is a disambiguation page, a list of pages that otherwise might share the same title. ... When normal cells are damaged beyond repair, they are eliminated by apoptosis. ... Diabetes mellitus type 2 (formerly Diabetes mellitus type II and also known as non-insulin-dependent diabetes, NIDDM or adult-onset diabetes) is a long-term metabolic disorder that is primarily characterized by insulin resistance, hyperglycemia, relative insulin deficiency and obesity. ... Glycemic Index The Glycemic Index (also glycaemic index, GI) is a ranking system for carbohydrates based on their immediate effect on blood glucose levels. ... Dieting is the practice or habit of eating (and drinking) in a regulated fashion, usually with the aim of losing weight. ... Marines doing push-ups. ... Green tea (绿茶) is tea that has undergone minimal oxidation during processing. ... A Water Ionizer is an appliance that ionizes water through a method of electrolysis. ... A prescribed dietary supplement supplies nutrients (usually vitamins or minerals) that are missing or not consumed in sufficient quantity in a persons diet. ... For alternative meanings for The West in the United States, see the U.S. West and American West. ...

The book states that the purpose of these changes is to obtain and maintain idyllic health so that an individual can extend their life as long as possible. The authors believe that within the next 20 to 50 years technology will advance to the point where much of the aging process will be conquered, and degenerative diseases eliminated. The book is peppered with side notes on these futuristic topics, showing how current research is leading us toward life extension, and explaining how future technologies such as nanotechnology and bioengineering might change the way humans live their lives. Ray Kurzweil discusses these topics at further length in his 2005 book The Singularity Is Near. In biology, senescence is the state or process of aging which follows the period of development. ... This article or section should be merged with Degenerative_disease. ... Life extension is an increase in the maximum lifespan beyond the current maximum lifespan, especially for humans. ... A mite next to a gear set produced using MEMS, the precursor to nanotechnology. ... Biological engineering (also biosystems engineering and bioengineering) is a broad-based engineering discipline that deals with bio-molecular and molecular processes, product design, sustainability and analysis of biological systems. ... 2005 (MMV) is a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The Singularity Is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology is an update of Raymond Kurzweils 1999 book, The Age of Spiritual Machines and his 1987 book The Age of Intelligent Machines. ...

See also

• Nutrition
• Technological singularity

Nutrition is the study of the relationship between diet and states of health and disease. ... When plotted on a logarithmic graph, 15 separate lists of paradigm shifts for key events in human history show an exponential trend. ...

External links

• Fantastic-voyage.net
• Short Guide - lifestyle changes from the book in bullet point format