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Could be they are waiting for America to do most of the discoveries. America has poured a lot of money into research on antiaging and making new pharmaceutical drugs. If someone else is doing for you, why spend all that money yourself?!
Two heads are better than one, and the UK should join in on the war against aging.
Snowbird
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Further to this topic. Could anyone else here who is from the UK stick their head above the parapet. It would be nice to share info re purchasing GPs etc for those who live there.
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The defining characteristic of the US is its diversity and size. Pretty much everything is here on any spectrum you care to measure. I smile when I see people who think the US is this or that - it's both, and a lot more. Thankfully despite this enormous diversity we all still identify as Americans, and we like to squabble with each other over silly things like politics 🙂
Anyhow the longevity hotbeds in the US traditionally have been Southern California and Florida (coastal of course, all the 'far out' stuff comes from the two coasts). More recently that's come to include NYC (to some degree) and Northern California where I live (to a great degree). And even then 9.99 out of 10 people you meet from those places aren't into it/don't care. So this tells you it takes a large, diverse population to have enough outliers who are actually willing to believe and work on the idea that we can live longer. Therefore the reason the UK probably isn't prominent is probably that it's smaller and culturally more cohesive.
Secondarily there's an excess of capital looking for a place to go. Longevity investment has been exponential the past five years due to Google creating Calico (on Ray Kurzweil's recommendation I believe, thanks Ray!). All the lemmings then jumped on the bandwagon, and there being an excess of capital in Silicon Valley now money is getting pumped into research (and of course longevity has the promise of enormous return on that). Otherwise there's a long term few outliers such as the Buck Institute, being one, which I live near and have visited.