Prolonging youth

Prolonging youth

Hydrogen sulfide for prolonging life: possible mechanism of action

Hydrogen sulfide, harmful in large quantities, in small doses can not only prolong life, but also save the body's resources and significantly reduce the need for food and oxygen.

26.03.2008

Prolonging youth

Immortality in exchange for infertility?

Homozygous mutants of the second generation lived ten times longer, but turned out to be infertile. Maybe it is possible to somehow compensate for the infertility associated with the age-1 gene and leave only immortality?

04.03.2008

Prolonging youth

The choice between life and death

The concept of phenoptosis makes us look at the problem of aging in a different way. What if this is the way nature forces us to leave, making room for the young? What if this slow extinction, as well as the apoptosis program, is embedded in the form of a genetic program in our genome, and its main biological meaning is the acceleration of evolution? These questions allowed us to formulate a theory of programmed aging as an instrument of evolution.

19.02.2008

Prolonging youth

How to prolong youth?

Vladimir Shabalin, Director of the Gerontology Research Institute, Academician of the Russian Academy of Medical Sciences, Doctor of Medical Sciences, Professor, Honored Scientist of the Russian Federation, knows all the secrets of aging and life extension and willingly shares them.

12.02.2008