Marios Kyriazis ( el, Μάριος Κυριαζής) (born 11 March 1956) is a medical
doctor
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and
gerontologist
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. He is known for work, publications and involvement with
life extension.
Applying the concept of
hormesis
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on anti-ageing medicine, Kyriazis controversially suggested that leading a stressful, irregular and constantly stimulating lifestyle may be a way of reducing the impact of age-related dysfunction.
Medical history
In 1996 Kyriazis founded the Historical Medical Equipment Society, which aims to study old medical instruments related to the history of medicine in the UK. The first public lecture was given at the
University of London
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with support from the
Wellcome Trust
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. As of July 2018, the society is no longer in existence.
In 2001, in association with the
Larnaca
Larnaca ( el, Λάρνακα ; tr, Larnaka) is a city on the south east coast of Cyprus and the capital of the district of the same name. It is the third-largest city in the country, after Nicosia and Limassol, with a metro population of 1 ...
Municipality, he organised an exhibition on the medical history in Cyprus with the theme "Medicine in Ancient Kition and Old Larnaca", accompanied by a book on the matter with the same title.
Following the tradition of other
benefactors in the family (such as his grandfather Dr
Neoclis Kyriazis and his great- uncle
Damianos Kyriazis), in 2008 he founded the
Kyriazis Medical Museum, a cultural
charitable foundation
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aiming to safe keep old medical items and traditions of
Cyprus
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, and to educate the public on the
Cypriot Medical History.
See also
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Anti-aging movement
The anti-aging movement is a social movement devoted to eliminating or reversing aging, or reducing the effects of it. A substantial portion of the attention of the movement is on the possibilities for life extension, but there is also interest in ...
*
Biological Immortality
References
External links
The British Longevity SocietyThe ELPIs Foundation for Indefinite Lifespans websiteThe ELPIs Theory (archived)
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1956 births
Living people
University of Perugia alumni
Alumni of King's College London
British geriatricians
Greek Cypriot people
Cypriot expatriates in the United Kingdom
Biogerontologists
Life extensionists
Greek transhumanists
People from Larnaca