Longevity Science Foundation

We're pleased to welcome LongeVC as the official longevity sponsor of the Invested in Her campaign, focused on women's health, menopause, and ovarian aging.

LongeVC is a venture capital firm investing in breakthrough biotechnology and supporting early-stage founders working to bring scientific advances from research into real-world application. Through its portfolio and global network of scientists, entrepreneurs, and industry leaders, the firm helps accelerate the development of new approaches across medicine and biotechnology. LongeVC has supported the Longevity Science Foundation since its inception, and as part of its commitment to the Invested in Her campaign, has pledged a $25,000 matching contribution that will be unlocked if and once the fundraising goal is reached.

As an investor in early-stage science, LongeVC is closely engaged with areas where fundamental questions in medicine remain unresolved.

Addressing disparities in women’s health is both a scientific and ethical imperative. We're grateful to have LongeVC join this effort. Learn more about their work here: https://longevc.com

Women shouldn’t have to wait decades longer for their health to be properly understood and addressed. It’s time to get fully Invested in Her.

We're pleased to welcome Tactical Tax & Estate Planning (Tactical Tax Strategies) as the official tax strategy sponsor of the Invested in Her campaign, focused on Women's Health, Menopause, and Ovarian Aging.

Tactical Tax Strategies is a Scottsdale-based financial services firm specializing in tax mitigation, tax-efficient income, estate and retirement planning strategies, for more effective wealth transfer solutions. The firm works closely with financial advisors, attorneys, CPAs and their clients to translate complex financial structures into actionable planning.

Their decision to join the initiative reflects a shared recognition that this is not only a scientific gap but also an ethical one. Women's health has historically been underfunded and underprioritized, despite its direct impact on quality of life, family systems, and long-term healthspan outcomes. For Tactical Tax Strategies, this aligns with a simple but important idea: meaningful planning for the future must also account for how that future is lived, not just how it is financed.

Closing this gap is both a scientific and practical imperative. We're grateful to have Tactical Tax Strategies join this effort. Learn more about their work here: https://steptax.com/

Women shouldn’t have to wait decades longer for their health to be properly understood and addressed. It’s time to get fully Invested in Her.

What happens to cognition when AI does the heavy lifting?

A recent study published in Social Sciences & Humanities Open examined whether unrestricted access to ChatGPT during self-directed study helps or harms long-term knowledge retention. The trial, framed around the concept of ChatGPT as a cognitive crutch, offers one of the first experimental data points on a question that has largely been left to speculation.

The findings appear striking: students who used ChatGPT as a study aid scored significantly lower on a surprise retention test administered 45 days after learning (57.5%) than those who relied on traditional methods (68.5%). The AI-assisted group also spent substantially less time on the task, suggesting that access to ChatGPT reduced the effortful engagement that supports durable memory formation. These results fit into a broader and increasingly difficult-to-ignore pattern: as AI becomes a default resource for hundreds of millions of people worldwide, the cumulative effect on how we learn, remember, and process information is quietly compounding. The convenience of outsourcing cognitive work to a chatbot may come at a cost that does not always surface immediately.

None of this diminishes what AI is capable of: across healthcare, scientific research, financial services, and beyond, these tools are accelerating progress in ways that were unimaginable a decade ago. However, the question we should consider is where the line should be drawn. Offloading routine tasks is reasonable, but delegating ideation, information synthesis, and decision-making may present certain health risks. There is a meaningful difference between using AI to challenge assumptions and using it to replace the thinking we should be doing ourselves.

While the findings are thought-provoking and deserve attention, it is important to be mindful that this is a single study with a modest sample and conducted in a specific context. Replication across broader populations and varied AI use cases is needed before treating these results as definitive. What is clear, however, is that we need to be increasingly vigilant in our use of AI, and its impact on brain health at the individual level, within organizations, and across society. This conversation warrants ongoing attention. Learn more about the intersection of AI and cognition from our CEO's panel participation at the Future Proof Citywide conference here:

https://longevity.foundation/news/tpost/oem135ipg1-event-recap-the-lsf-at-the-future-proof