Scientists are working on a drug that lets you live for 200 years
Fancy living for another 100 years?
metro.co.uk
"The drug, taken in pill form, works by eliminating cells that contribute to the ageing process in the human body, thus potentially doubling our lifespan....
Human ageing is hurried along by cells called ‘zombie cells’, scientifically known as senescent cells. These cells stop dividing over our lifespan, accumulate inside our bodies, and eventually release compounds that speed up ageing....
‘I can’t see a physical or biological reason why people couldn’t live to 200 — the challenge is whether we can develop the biomedical science to make it possible.’
Studies come out every few years that propose some kind of fundamental limit on human lifespan, but they’re always missing one crucial piece: we’ve never tried treating the ageing process before,"
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Curious what they are talking about here. My guess would be something to do with Fisetin since it was clearly the strongest at flushing senescent zombie cells in animal studies (and in real small human test) and the Mayo clinic went quiet about their strict human studies on it from 2020 without releasing the results. The problem for the medical industry is Fisetin can't be patented so they would have to package it somehow or come up with a way to eliminate as many senescent zombie cells with something that can be patented.
Also I highly doubt elimination of most senescent zombie cells periodically would extend lifespan that much. You might get the very maximum lifespan up to around 135 or something like that but certainly not 200. I am into the slowing down aging stuff and have actually took Fisetin on 2 occasions to flush some of these bad cells. Daily supplementation doesn't do squat and you have to blast very high amounts of it for like 3 days and only do it every year or so (some do it a little more often like every 6 months ). I forgot how but it stresses something with the body is why you can only do it every so often at those very high doses. After both times I did it a few days after the last dose it felt like a slight fog had been lifted off my mind and I felt like I had a little more energy.
I think senescent cell reduction would mostly be beneficial for improving the quality of life as you age even more than extending the age you die at. It would probably delay or prevent alzheimers, cancer and heart disease for many years past when the person might have otherwise got those conditions.
As far as a true really turn the clock back fountain of youth I doubt that happens until they figure out some way to engineer the cells to revert to a younger state.
