Posted on 09/02/2018 5:41:27 PM PDT by Candor7
An extraordinary new anti-ageing technique could see humans live to 150 years old and allow them to regrow their organs by 2020. Harvard Professor David Sinclair and researchers from the University of New South Wales developed the new process, which involves reprogramming cells. Dr Sinclair said the technique could allow people to regenerate organs, and even allow paralysis sufferers to move again, with human trials due within two years. The same researchers also found they could increase the lifespan of mice by ten per cent by giving them a vitamin B derivative pill. They also said the pill led to a reduction in age-related hair loss, according to The Herald Sun. Professor Sinclair said he hoped the pill would be available to the public within five years and cost the same each day as a cup of coffee. But the professor from the Department of Genetics at Harvard Medical School warned people not to try to reverse the aging process before the science has been published or peer reviewed. 'We do not recommend people go out and take NAD precursors as they have not yet formally tested for safety,' he said. The science behind the new technique involves the molecule nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide (NAD), which plays a role in generating energy in the human body. The chemical is already used as a supplement for treating Parkinson's disease and fighting jet lag. Professor Sinclair, who is using his own molecule to reduce the aging process, said his biological age has dropped by 24 years after taking the pill. He said his father, 79, has been white water rafting and backpacking after starting using the molecule a year-and-a-half ago. The professor said his sister-in-law was now fertile again after taking the treatment, despite having started to transition into menopause in her 40s.
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They would be driving?
900 Silver Alerts a day?
Old Timers and dementia not resolved?
Entire aisle or more at store for Depends?
Full trafic lanes for 4 wheel scooters?
List goes on
alzheimers costs about 186 billion with a b annually in the USA
You can buy the precursor, niacinamide riboside, from at least a dozen outfits. They all buy from a single supplier. Cost: $40/month.
Or buy niacinamide, which has hundreds of suppliers, at one tenth the cost. But it may take ten (or more) times as much to have the same positive effects.
McCain and brain or new brain do not belong in the same sentence.
I am pretty sure that my retirement will run out by 75. Also pretty sure that my SS check wont cover the monthly bills. So I think I will pass.
Correct dosage (if we can transfer to humans from animal studies) would be 250-300 mg per day.
The FDA will never approve this because it will take forever to test.
The WW2 vets have been known as “The Greatest Generation”. Boomers can be known as “The Oldest Generation”. I’d like to live long enough that a vacation to Mars becomes affordable.
That would mean that pubic school teachers wouldn’t be able to retire until they were 60. They’d never agree to that.
The product put out by Elysium is just a combination of NAD+ and Pterostilbene, both of which are available separately from several sources. I get my NAD+ through the Life Extension Foundation during their yearly vitamin sale (November through January) at a sharp discount, and I get the Pterostilbene from Amazon. Along with all the other vitamins and supplements I take, my health is great. I just turned 70 two weeks ago, and most people assume I’m in my 50’s.
I don’t have proof that all of this is really retarding or reversing my aging process, but I figure it’s worth a shot. After all, if I were to do nothing, I KNOW I would eventually die, since that has been the universal fate of humans up to the present. Whereas if I can slow my aging, there’s an excellent chance that I might live indefinitely (barring accidents or other non-health-related fatal events). Anti-aging science is progressing at an exponential rate, and I fully expect that we’ll be able to cure aging in another few years. I want to be around when that happens, to see my grandchild and great-grandchildren and etc. grow up.
Curing old-age will undoubtedly have enormous impacts on society, but I’m optimistic that the positives will far outweigh the negatives. And for those individuals who think it’s an awful idea, they are free to not take advantage of the coming new technologies, and to die of old age in the normal fashion. Those of us who do utilize anti-aging technologies will still be around long after they are gone. A perfect example of evolution in action.
TheClintons living to 150. The mind boggles.
Great! Now that is punishment. No way I want to live til 150. Good grief. The way things are going. We’ll have a lot of elderly that can’t afford a coffee from McDonald’s. Can you imagine living on that 1500 dollar social security check in 50 years....I guess by then it would be 1545 dollars. Yippee!
a Dunkin Donuts cup of coffee or a Starbucks cup of coffee?
If you have not figured out how to become of independent means after 50 years of working, you have not bothered to read the numerous books on the subject.
Saving just 10% of your income for 50 years at 7% annual interest after inflation (index fund of the stock market for the last 80 years) gives you 45.6 times your annual income in investments, or 3.2 times your annual income forever (at 7% return).
At a very modest 4% annual interest after inflation, you get 16.0 times your annual income, or .64 times your annual income forever (at 4% return).
It is not a stunning breakthrough until it is proven, until then it is just grant bait.
Trust me, at 100, 50 more truly is hell.
I don’t see anything about vitamins on their website.
which brand you taking?
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