Marios Kyriazis ( el, Μάριος Κυριαζής) (born 11 March 1956) is a medical

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and

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. He is known for work, publications and involvement with life extension. Applying the concept of

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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

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with support from the

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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

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aiming to safe keep old medical items and traditions of

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, and to educate the public on the Cypriot Medical History.

References

External links

The British Longevity Society

The ELPIs Foundation for Indefinite Lifespans website

The ELPIs Theory (archived)
{{DEFAULTSORT:Kyriazis Marios 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

Medical history

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