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This is interesting, an accidental outcome of a drug trail found a two year reversal in biological aging. The sample size is extremely small but this seems like something that will need more investigation and research to see if there's really something reproducible going on.
https://www.newsweek.com/drug-trial-reve...rs-1458204
Scientists believe it may be possible to reverse a person's biological age with a combination of drugs and growth hormones, based on evidence presented in the results of a small clinical study.
The study, which was conducted by geneticist Steve Horvath at the University of California, Los Angeles, effectively reversed participants' epigenetic clock by an average of two and a half years, the scientific journal Nature reported. Additionally, the patients' immune systems appeared to rejuvenate after treatment with the combination of growth hormone and two diabetes medications.
Even the scientists who worked on the study were surprised by the results. At the same time, some are urging caution as the results are still preliminary.
"I'd expected to see slowing down of the clock, but not a reversal," Horvath told Nature. "That felt kind of futuristic."
Wolfgang Wagner, a cell biologist from the University of Aachen in Germany, said that the study is very small, making it difficult to draw firm conclusions.
"It may be that there is an effect," Wagner said. "But the results are not rock solid because the study is very small and not well controlled."
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Gosh, I hope so! Because if there's one thing we need, it's people living longer so we can increase the population more. Yay! That dopey old Mother Nature (you know, the one that's kept this planet going for over 4 billion years) is so clueless, we humans can easily improve on her processes.
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Yoyodyne ArtWorks wrote:
Gosh, I hope so! Because if there's one thing we need, it's people living longer so we can increase the population more. Yay! That dopey old Mother Nature (you know, the one that's kept this planet going for over 4 billion years) is so clueless, we humans can easily improve on her processes.
This is the obvious solution to the 74 year old woman giving birth, so she can become a grandmother.
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Bet it won't be cheap.
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Yoyodyne ArtWorks wrote:
Gosh, I hope so! Because if there's one thing we need, it's people living longer so we can increase the population more. Yay! That dopey old Mother Nature (you know, the one that's kept this planet going for over 4 billion years) is so clueless, we humans can easily improve on her processes.
This.
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Yoyodyne ArtWorks wrote:
Gosh, I hope so! Because if there's one thing we need, it's people living longer so we can increase the population more. Yay! That dopey old Mother Nature (you know, the one that's kept this planet going for over 4 billion years) is so clueless, we humans can easily improve on her processes.
It does not naturally follow that reversing aging will lead to increased lifespans. What would be nice is if this would lead to people being able to live healthier, more productive, and independently as they get older, as well as a reduction in horrible diseases such as cancer, dementia etc. I don't have any problem with this.
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Bet it won't be cheap.
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That is a fact. Human growth hormone is very expensive so most of us will not be able to afford it.
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It isn't reversing aging. It's briefly reversing one measure that is used to estimate cellular age in older white men.
It will be 30 years before we know how well it works for people across a range of ages. Do people need to have daily $1000 treatments starting at age 18 to extend life 10 years, or do they have five different types of stage 4 cancer spontaneously erupt after 20 years of injections?
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So they're on the trail for a drug trial? :dunno:
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