Author: Phil Newman  |  Published on: October 23, 2024  |  Last updated: October 23, 2024 As the science and business of longevity explode, there’s an urgent need for a shared language and logical structure. Newman’s Ten Levels of Longevity framework offers exactly that: it organizes the entire spectrum of interventions into clear, progressive stages, each with its own focus, opportunities, and limitations. No level is “better” than another, but as you move to higher levels, potential benefits, and risks, grow.

The Ten Levels at a Glance

1. Lifestyle Management

The foundation of healthy aging: optimizing sleep, diet, exercise, stress, and avoiding toxins. Small changes here can yield big long-term results.

2. Consumer Diagnostics

Using digital tools, AI, biomarkers, and self-quantification to discover personal health insights and guide individualized interventions.

3. Longevity Supplements

Science-backed nutraceuticals and supplements designed to support metabolism, fill nutritional gaps, and maintain cell function as aging progresses.

4. Longevity Clinical Services

Medical professionals monitor aging biomarkers and provide guidance on prevention, lifestyle, and therapeutics—beyond standard healthcare.

5. Aging Disease Management

Current mainstream medicine: treating age-related diseases (like diabetes, hypertension, arthritis) as they appear, managing symptoms and progression.

6. Aging Disease Prevention Therapeutics

Novel drugs or medical interventions that actively delay, prevent, or suppress onset of age-related diseases by targeting root causes.

7. Targeted Aging Disease Reversal

Advanced therapies that repair or regenerate specific tissues or organs—think organ-specific rejuvenation, beyond merely slowing decline.

8. Systemic Aging Reversal

Ambitious interventions aiming to reverse aging across the whole body, not just organ-by-organ—currently experimental, but rapidly advancing.

9. Organ/Organism Preservation or Maintenance

Technologies for replacing, repairing, or even bioengineering organs and tissue to maintain function well beyond current human lifespans.

10. Corporeal/Consciousness Preservation

The cutting edge: preserving the body or even consciousness itself, with visions of reawakening when tomorrow’s cures or rejuvenation tech arrive.