Prolonging youth

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Prolonging youth

Metformin anti-aging: new data

Metformin, the most widely used antidiabetic drug worldwide, slows down the aging process and increases the lifespan of nematodes.

04.06.2014
Prolonging youth

MitoQ rejuvenates the circulatory system

The arteries of mice whose age corresponded to human 70-80 years, after a month's course of the antioxidant MitoQ functioned as well as the arteries of mice whose age corresponded to 25-35 years of human age.

14.05.2014
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Experimental drug increases the lifespan of mice

Researchers have identified a protein that plays a key role in the process of physiological aging, and have developed an experimental drug that suppresses the activity of this protein.

07.05.2014
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Blood as a source of youth: new data

Two independent groups of researchers have once again demonstrated the rejuvenating effect of blood components of young mice on the state of the brain and muscle tissue of old animals.

06.05.2014
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Waiting for the "old age pill"

Brian Kennedy, president of the Buck Institute for Aging Research, told the newspaper.En" about how many drugs against aging humanity will soon have and what principles they may have.

11.04.2014
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How to rejuvenate an aged thymus gland

With the help of a single genetic switch, it was possible to restore the thymus - thymus gland in old mice, which normally degenerates with age.

10.04.2014
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Aging markers are needed for testing geroprotectors

Scientists do not want to conduct clinical trials that will take 30 years and wait for the participants of the experiment to die. Therefore, one of the main problems of geneticists today is the lack of good markers of aging to determine the effect of drugs.

08.04.2014
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To prolong life, you need the right low-calorie diet

Calorie restriction still prolongs life and reduces the likelihood of age-related diseases in primates. At least this turned out to be true for several dozen Rhesus, which were observed for more than 20 years.

02.04.2014
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Use your head!

People who have worked for a long time in positions where great mental effort was required of them, keep their mind and memory healthy longer after retirement.

27.03.2014
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Train, Grandma!

To stay in shape, older women need to regularly practice strength exercises, reinforcing them, like real athletes, with meat food.

07.03.2014
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Craig Venter has joined the Anti-aging Fighters

The ultimate goal of the new Human Longevity company is not to prolong life itself, but to increase the duration of the period during which a person retains good health and can conduct active and highly productive activities.

06.03.2014
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The brain needs to be walked daily

Walking promenades increase the size of certain areas of the brain associated with higher cognitive functions and help slow down age-related changes in gray matter.

19.02.2014
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Anti-aging treatments for muscle stem cells

Aged muscle stem cells can be extracted from the body, rejuvenated in the laboratory and returned back – and after that, almost youthful strength will return to the old muscles.

18.02.2014
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The elixir of youth instead of a pill for old age

An application has been submitted to the Ministry of Health for the start of clinical trials of SkQ1 solution for oral administration – the substance feels better in liquid form. So pills for old age, alas, will not work. But it can turn out to be an elixir.

31.01.2014
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Don't let your brain dry up

High blood levels of omega-3 fatty acids found in fish oil contribute to the preservation of brain mass and slows down the aging process in old age.

23.01.2014
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Jonah Skulachev: Past, present, future

Do attempts to slow down aging contradict the data of modern science? What are mitochondrial antioxidants and why can they defeat age-related diseases? What have the developers of "ion Skulachev" managed to achieve today?

17.01.2014
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A new (and reversible!) the cause of aging

Researchers have found a previously unknown cause of mammalian aging. Moreover, they demonstrated how to eliminate this cause and reverse the aging process.

20.12.2013