An open good-practice initiative 一项开放的良好实践倡议——不是联盟，不是认证
GHP is being jointly initiated by research, clinical, industry and practice stakeholders (signatories being invited); the secretariat drafts the guides and organizes open review. No membership, no fees — participation takes two forms: co-founding and declared adoption.
Founding structure发起架构 · 1 + 3 + 5 + 1
Provides the scientific foundation in aging biology and epigenetics, keeping the guide's citations rigorous and traceable.
Participate in review as individuals; affiliations for reference only. GHP governs institutional practice — it is not a clinical practice guideline.
Testing, nutrition and device companies join after interest disclosure — weight deliberately capped to protect neutrality.
Longevity and health-management institutions — the source of demand authenticity and candidates for the first case stories.
Guide drafting, portal operation, review organization; text editorship rests with the secretariat (W3C model), disclosed here in full transparency.
Institutions may self-declare adoption (registry listing); anyone may submit feedback and co-shape the guides.
Evolution path演进路径 · 三步走
Unincorporated consensus: guide text v0.1 published, multi-party signatories, self-declaration-based adoption begins.
With sufficient adopters, partner with a registered society to develop and publish a formal association standard (T/ number) — the GHP initiative contributes technical input only.
Should GHP become the de facto industry practice guide, consider incorporation (association/foundation).
FAQ
- Is GHP a league or an association?
- No. GHP is an open initiative — legally, a publicly available technical document with multi-party endorsement and declaration-based adoption. No membership, no fees, hence no "joining" in the associative sense.
- Does adopting GHP require buying certain products?
- No. Guides and products are strictly separated: compliance never depends on any product; the implementations page lists multiple paths, including product-free generic ones.
- Is GHP an official certification?
- No. GHP is a voluntarily adopted good-practice guide and community consensus — not a standard, not a certification, not an organization. "Adopter" is self-declared; the secretariat only registers the list, performing no conformity assessment, no grading and no accreditation.
- Why insist on root-cause positioning?
- Every interpretation of test data is by nature an inference. If interpretation stops at "functional imbalance" without tracing upstream drivers (hallmarks-of-aging direction), intervention remains surface-level. Making root-cause positioning a hard requirement is the initiative's core stance.
- Can individuals participate?
- Yes — use the public guide's five questions to choose an institution, and submit guide feedback in a professional capacity.