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New drug being developed ... 'could help humans live until they are 150'
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-2291254/New-drug-developed-using-compound-red-wine-help-humans-live-150.html ^ | 6:40 EST, 10 March 2013 | Lucy Crossley

Posted on 03/10/2013 7:51:21 PM PDT by null and void

The new drugs are synthetic versions of resveratrol which is found in red wine and is believed to have an anti-ageing effect as it boosts activity of a protein called SIRT1.

Pharmaceutical giant GlaxoSmithKline has been testing the medications on patients suffering with medical conditions including cancer, diabetes and heart disease.

The work proves that a single anti-ageing enzyme in the body can be targeted, with the potential to prevent age-related diseases and extend lifespans.

The most common naturally-occurring activator is resveratrol, which is found in small quantities in red wine, but synthetic activators with much stronger activity are already being developed.

Despite this, there have already been promising results in some trials with implications for cancer, cardiovascular disease and cardiac failure, type 2 diabetes, Alzheimer's and Parkinson's diseases, fatty liver disease, cataracts, osteoporosis, muscle wasting, sleep disorders and inflammatory diseases such as psoriasis, arthritis and colitis.

Professor Sinclair said: 'In the history of pharmaceuticals, there has never been a drug that tweaks an enzyme to make it run faster.'

Four thousand synthetic activators, which are 100 times as potent as a single glass of red wine, have been developed - with the best three being used in human trials.

While any drug would be strictly prescribed for certain conditions, Professor Sinclair suggests that one day, they could be taken orally as a preventative.

They could therefore be used in the same way as statin drugs are commonly prescribed to prevent, instead of simply treating, cardiovascular disease.

In animal models, overweight mice given synthetic resveratrol were able to run twice as far as slim mice and they lived 15 per cent longer.

'Some of us could live to 150, but we won't get there without more research.'

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: aging; antiaging; brzenzski; davosplayers; elite; elitecancerfree; kissenger; lifextension; nwo; resveratrol; soros
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Here's to 100 more years of the Obama presidency...
1 posted on 03/10/2013 7:51:21 PM PDT by null and void
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Just think...90 years of sagginess.


2 posted on 03/10/2013 7:52:20 PM PDT by BenLurkin (This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both)
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Why would I want to live until 150?


3 posted on 03/10/2013 7:52:24 PM PDT by Darren McCarty (If most people were more than keyboard warriors, we might have won the election)
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already being done, by some


4 posted on 03/10/2013 7:55:33 PM PDT by llevrok (Keep your arms out. It makes it harder for them to throw a net over you.)
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150 year-old parents with a lazy, jobless 125 year-old son still living in the basement, eating pizza and playing video games.
5 posted on 03/10/2013 7:58:16 PM PDT by JPG (Stay strong.)
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> New drug being developed ... ‘could help humans live until they are 150’

Big deal, I’m 149 now. - Helen Thomas.


6 posted on 03/10/2013 7:59:22 PM PDT by Jyotishi (Seeking the truth, a fact at a time.)
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"..you think it's easy climbing into a liter box at 82?...???...that's when I can remember where da ell it is"

7 posted on 03/10/2013 8:06:16 PM PDT by Doogle (USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon Thailand..never store a threat you should have eliminated))
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Don’t want it!!!

Only put away enough to last me until i’m 100!

After that my will says “being of sound mind i spent it”!


8 posted on 03/10/2013 8:06:59 PM PDT by dalereed
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I always try out a wide variety of nutritional supplements. A lot of them, I try for two months and see if I can notice an improvement. Others, I take based on recent scientific research. I take Resveratrol for the the latter reason. Maybe it takes a while to notice that your life has been extended by 20 years, or whatever!


9 posted on 03/10/2013 8:07:03 PM PDT by Fractal Trader
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...could help humans live until they are 150.

That oughta create a surge in Viagra sales.

10 posted on 03/10/2013 8:07:46 PM PDT by smoothsailing
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It depends on how much vitality you have. If you’re going to be the equivalent of 90 years old, for the next 60 years, you may not want it. However, if it helps you slow down your age so you don’t age as quick, it might be nice to be 80, but have the vitality of a healthy 55 year old.


11 posted on 03/10/2013 8:13:22 PM PDT by Jonty30 (What Islam and secularism have in common is that they are both death cults)
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Will this be offered in a time-release capsul?


12 posted on 03/10/2013 8:13:54 PM PDT by umgud
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Heres the catch:
there is a definative, working product,
it will only be affordable by the likes of Gates, Bloomberg, Soros, etc...
13 posted on 03/10/2013 8:13:55 PM PDT by 45semi (A police state is always preceded by a nanny state...)
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To: llevrok
After mistaken reports of his death in 1982 and 1987, Vigoda has been the subject of running gags as to whether he is dead or alive. Good naturedly, he made regular appearances on television shows to make fun of the error.

He looked like he was the walking dead when he acted in Barney Miller. I am surprised he is still alive.

14 posted on 03/10/2013 8:15:13 PM PDT by Robert DeLong (u)
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I'm not sure I want to live that long.


15 posted on 03/10/2013 8:16:22 PM PDT by smokingfrog ( ==>sleep with one eye open (<o> ---)
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I've got cigars and ammo that will last another 90 years...I want to be here to enjoy them.

That said, exercise is a must if you are to remain virile for 150 years...you might even need some testosterone supplements...and a little bit of bran every day.

16 posted on 03/10/2013 8:16:41 PM PDT by RoosterRedux (Get armed, practice in the use of your weapons, get physically fit, stay alert!)
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To: 45semi

I don’t think Soros has blood running through his veins. I don’t know what it is, but the man just won’t die.


17 posted on 03/10/2013 8:16:59 PM PDT by Jonty30 (What Islam and secularism have in common is that they are both death cults)
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Why?


18 posted on 03/10/2013 8:18:16 PM PDT by SkyDancer (Live your life in such a way that the Westboro church will want to picket your funeral.)
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key is not to under-dose on resveratrol and these other new drugs. who wants to get old? dying not as bad as getting and being old imo
19 posted on 03/10/2013 8:18:53 PM PDT by Democrat_media (media makes mass shooters household names to create more & take our guns)
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and they think Social Security has problems now...
20 posted on 03/10/2013 8:19:41 PM PDT by Chode (Stand UP and Be Counted, or line up and be numbered - *DTOM* -ww- NO Pity for the LAZY)
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