SCIENTISTS MAY HAVE HIT ON ANTI-AGING FORMULA

Scientists at the University of California, Los Angeles might have found a formula to reverse the process of aging. Volunteers who were given a cocktail of drugs for a year actually “aged backwards”, losing an average of 2.5 years from their biological ages (* I lost 2.5 years once. It was somewhere in the early 2000s when someone introduced me to Hapsburg Gold Label Premium Reserve Absinthe. That’s all I remember.). The research showed that the marks on their genomes that represent their “epigenetic clock” – a record of chemical changes to their DNA – as well as their immune systems, didn’t just hold steady but actually improved despite the passing of time. The scientists involved in the study were shocked by the results. The scientists caution that the study was done with a very limited number of participants: only nine people took the drug cocktail, and there was no control group. But if it is confirmed by further research it could have huge impacts on healthcare, the treatment of disease and how people think about ageing.
* So, it was Betty White and eight others in the test group?
* They’re calling it the “Keith Richards Effect”.
* Only nine test subjects? I know for a fact there’s more people than that in California willing to take a random cocktail of unknown drugs.
* Meh. Don’t get excited. If it works, they’ll make sure it costs so much, only billionaires will be able to use it.