Attilio Launches Longevity Event in Italy

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla., Oct. 8, 2026 /CourierPR/ -- In a fireside chat titled "Myth vs Reality," Paul Pagnato, CEO and Founder of Attilio, and Dr. Laura Carstensen, Co-Chair of Attilio's Longevity Event and founding director of the Stanford Center on Longevity, discussed how to think about a longer life. The event took place in Tuscany, Italy, and was attended by a global audience.

Following the announcement of Attilio's inaugural Longevity Event, Pagnato and Carstensen presented to R360 in Tuscany, Italy. Carstensen predicted that the point at which science adds more than one year of life expectancy for every year that passes, known as longevity escape velocity, would be reached by 2030. However, life expectancy gains in the longest living countries have risen roughly three months a year for the past 160 years, about a quarter of the pace required to reach the milestone, according to a 2024 study published in Nature Aging.

Pagnato and Carstensen argued that the realistic strategy is to maximize healthspan today, using the Stanford Center on Longevity's New Map of Life as a guide for a century of living that includes multiple careers, learning at every stage, and families spanning four or five generations at once.

The conversation then turned to money. Research shows that income does affect lifespan, with Americans at the top living 10 to 15 years longer than those at the bottom, according to a 2016 study published in JAMA. However, above a certain income level, the gains flatten, and relationships and purpose make the larger difference from there.

Pagnato and Carstensen also took on the appeal of the newest supplement or biohack. Compounds such as rapamycin, NAD+, and metformin show promise in early research but have no proven longevity benefit in humans. The interventions with the strongest evidence remain sleep, strength training, cardiorespiratory fitness, and close relationships, tools available to nearly everyone regardless of income.

The talk closed with Carstensen's research on the positivity effect, the finding that emotional wellbeing tends to improve with age rather than decline, as older adults focus on what matters most and hold fewer regrets.

Attilio's mission is to democratize access to a 100-year quality lifespan, reaching 99% of the U.S. population. The company, launched in September 2026 under CEO and Founder Paul A. Pagnato, works with experts from Stanford University, Harvard University, and the Buck Institute for Research on Aging.