Tests Begin on Drugs That May Slow Aging (advantage, diet, how to)

[Bull Winkus]

Tests Begin on Drugs That May Slow Aging

NYTimes.com
By NICHOLAS WADE
Published: August 17, 2009

It may be the ultimate free lunch — how to reap all the advantages of a calorically restricted diet, including freedom from disease and an extended healthy life span, without eating one fewer calorie. Just take a drug that tricks the body into thinking it’s on such a diet.

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The resveratrol tests are still under way, but last month the results with another substance, the antifungal drug rapamycin, were published. Rapamycin was found to extend mice’s lives significantly even though by accident the mice were already the equivalent of 60 years old when the experiment started.

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http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/18/sc...=1&ref=science

[coyoteskye]

Originally Posted by Bull Winkus

Tests Begin on Drugs That May Slow Aging

NYTimes.com
By NICHOLAS WADE
Published: August 17, 2009

It may be the ultimate free lunch — how to reap all the advantages of a calorically restricted diet, including freedom from disease and an extended healthy life span, without eating one fewer calorie. Just take a drug that tricks the body into thinking it’s on such a diet.

<snip>

The resveratrol tests are still under way, but last month the results with another substance, the antifungal drug rapamycin, were published. Rapamycin was found to extend mice’s lives significantly even though by accident the mice were already the equivalent of 60 years old when the experiment started.

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http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/18/sc...=1&ref=science

Humans (and i include myself in that category) can be so stupid!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Bull Winkus]

Whadda ya mean coyoteskye?