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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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To: 45semi

It’s always that way at first, but the draw of being able to sell a billion pills for $5 a pop, as opposed to 1,000 pills at $10,000 a pop, always wins out.


21 posted on 03/10/2013 8:20:18 PM PDT by Jonty30 (What Islam and secularism have in common is that they are both death cults)
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To: null and void

Genesis 6:3
And the Lord said, My spirit shall not always strive with man, for that he also is flesh: yet his days shall be an hundred and twenty years.


22 posted on 03/10/2013 8:20:28 PM PDT by donna (Pray for revival.)
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To: Democrat_media
dying not as bad as getting and being old imo

You've done both?

23 posted on 03/10/2013 8:23:44 PM PDT by Alaska Wolf (I)
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To: Pride in the USA

ping


24 posted on 03/10/2013 8:24:07 PM PDT by lonevoice (Today I broke my personal record for most consecutive days lived)
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To: donna

It’s been shown that aging is mostly environmental in nature. That’s why some 80 year olds act like they’re fifty and other 80 year olds are very decrepit.

If you can minimize the environmental factors, there’s no reason why cell death (the real cause of aging) can’t be slowed down and people live longer as a result.


25 posted on 03/10/2013 8:28:37 PM PDT by Jonty30 (What Islam and secularism have in common is that they are both death cults)
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To: null and void

Gonna confound Obama’s death panels.


26 posted on 03/10/2013 8:32:45 PM PDT by izzatzo (NO MORE BUSHES!)
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To: Jonty30
Guess thats true, unless the company(s) become 'nationalized' & only the 'elite' have access...
(yes, thats my pessimistic side showing, seen too many sci-fi movies I guess!)
27 posted on 03/10/2013 8:32:50 PM PDT by 45semi (A police state is always preceded by a nanny state...)
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To: Fractal Trader

We take resveratrol every day via the red wine. After a couple of glasses we feel younger already. :-)


28 posted on 03/10/2013 8:35:36 PM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped.)
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To: Chode

Oh sure...like a wet blanket on a cold rainy night.


29 posted on 03/10/2013 8:38:39 PM PDT by ROCKLOBSTER (Hey RATS! Control your murdering freaks.)
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To: null and void

[[New drug being developed ... ‘could help humans live until they are 150’]]

[[Here’s to 100 more years of the Obama presidency... ]]

I was just goign to say abotu hte same hting- who the hell wants to live that long in a coutnry where our basic consitutional rights are beign taken away almsot daily now? in NY you have goverrnors and mayors trampling all over their citizen’;s rights tellign them what they can eat, what they can and can’t drink, what they can use for self protection on and on and on- in cali you have the government there contemplating banning smoking in people’s own homes for crying out loud- and for htose that think ‘Ther’s no way they can or will enforce it’ think again=- kids will be asked at health exams “Do you parents smokes? Do they smoke in the house?” and if the answer is yes, then law enforcement WILL BE CALLED and sent to the home with an arrest warrant for ‘potential endagering the wealfare of a child’- and you mark my words- there WILL come hte day when health officials WILL ASK kids what they eat at home, and if it’s not wholesome foods or too much junk food- hte parents may very well face similiar charges-

‘Can’t ever happen’? It IS happenign folks- nope- I sure as hell don’t care to live 150 years-


30 posted on 03/10/2013 8:45:06 PM PDT by CottShop (Scientific belief does not constitute scientific evidence, nor does it convey scientific knowledge)
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To: donna

[[Genesis 6:3
And the Lord said, My spirit shall not always strive with man, for that he also is flesh: yet his days shall be an hundred and twenty years.]]

No no no- these scientisits are like little gods- they can build towers that reach way into the heavens- it’s been doen before- oh wait- NM- no it hasn’t


31 posted on 03/10/2013 8:48:34 PM PDT by CottShop (Scientific belief does not constitute scientific evidence, nor does it convey scientific knowledge)
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To: ROCKLOBSTER
pretty much...
32 posted on 03/10/2013 8:48:49 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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To: Fractal Trader
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!

You're already seeing it - you were supposed to die 10 years ago.
33 posted on 03/10/2013 8:48:56 PM PDT by fr_freak
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To: donna

That further got reduced to 70 years, or 80 with a great constitution.

It’s a general rule, obviously there are things you can do to not have your body fail you, and if you avoid deadly accidents,...


34 posted on 03/10/2013 9:00:26 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (I can neither confirm or deny that; even if I could, I couldn't - it's classified.)
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To: Democrat_media

I tried messing around with topical applications of estriol cream recently too even though I am not yet menopausal until it sort of dawned on me that even with progesterone balance, extended use could be an nice way to possibly give myself breast cancer. I think I hold the resveratrol until the long-term effects of high doses of are better known.


35 posted on 03/10/2013 9:11:37 PM PDT by erlayman
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To: erlayman

Meanwhile, you could drink an awful lot of red wine.


36 posted on 03/10/2013 9:14:03 PM PDT by ROCKLOBSTER (Hey RATS! Control your murdering freaks.)
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To: null and void

Not going to happen if Obama has any say!


37 posted on 03/10/2013 9:25:50 PM PDT by Deagle (quo)
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To: Doogle

Santa Claws?


38 posted on 03/10/2013 9:39:57 PM PDT by Kickass Conservative (A Republican freed the Slaves and a Democrat murdered Martin Luther King.)
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To: null and void

There’s one huge difference between the rats they use in these studies and the people they ultimately hope will benefit from these drugs - the rats eat food.

Most people eat processed crap that has only a vague resemblance to actual food.

It may be that these drugs might have some benefit, but I’d be very surprised if they’d be powerful enough to the thousands of calories of junk people eat every day.


39 posted on 03/10/2013 9:57:54 PM PDT by jdege
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To: null and void

No economy could sustain any significant population at that extreme age. Look at the situation we have now...


40 posted on 03/10/2013 10:15:43 PM PDT by newzjunkey (bah)
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