Prolonging youth

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Prolonging youth

Another interview with de Grey

Russia was visited by the most shocking gerontologist of the planet Aubrey de Grey. Who is he, a troublemaker of scientific tranquility? How "crazy" (quote from British newspapers) a mathematician, a certified programmer turned into a gerontologist with world fame?

12.03.2009
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How Aubrey de Grey Old Age Wins

During an exclusive interview with the famous British biogerontologist Aubrey de Grey, it turned out that he does not plan to test an anti-aging remedy, which is being developed under his leadership by a huge consortium of scientists from around the world.

10.03.2009
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Immortality for nothing

"I believe that we will be able to defeat aging in the near future. There is a 50 percent chance that the person who will be the first to live to 150 years old is already living, and he is now 60 years old," di Gray said on Saturday at a meeting with journalists in Moscow.

02.03.2009
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Cancel aging: how and why

Aubrey De Grey: from what we know about aging today, we can identify seven key points and try to influence these "weak links". This is my "Strategy for Achieving Negligible Aging by Engineering Methods" (SENS). The goal is to create a technology accessible to every person, with the help of which it is possible to restore the body to any degree of rejuvenation and maintain it in this state for any time.

20.02.2009
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Hormones of youth

If you resort to age-related hormone therapy, then with great caution. You will need one hormone or several in a fight with time, depending on your state of health and the goal you want to achieve. Throughout the treatment, the hormone level should be regularly rechecked, and the dose should be adjusted.

12.02.2009
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Kill old age in the bud

Both with the use of resveratrol, and with diet, and with physical exertion, the SIRT1 protein from the sirtuin family is activated. Another candidate for the elixirs of youth is a drug that restores telomeres. Mice with elevated telomerase levels live 40% longer. In addition, they have stronger skin and stronger immunity. To what extent these results are applicable to a person is an open question. But some are impatient.

23.01.2009
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Medicines for prolonging life

At the very end of the outgoing year, American scientists presented humanity with a luxurious New Year's gift — the hope for a quick solution to the problem of aging.

14.01.2009
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Fasting does not prolong life

One of the mechanisms of prolonging life with calorie restriction, found in experiments on rodents, is a decrease in the synthesis of insulin–like growth factor-1 (IGF-1). However, as Luigi Fontana and his colleagues have shown, a low-calorie diet does not have such an effect on people.

25.12.2008
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Defeat aging

The invention of new medicines for senile diseases is a real tool for prolonging life. They are already being invented, but not everything has reached the clinic yet. These are medicines for diseases that are directly related to aging. Actually, these diseases are aging, the result of aging. In 10-20 years, science will achieve that a person will live 120 years.

09.12.2008
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Heavy water prolongs life: details

The method that can delay the onset of old age is based on heavy water, which allows us to protect biopolymers that are part of our body from the action of free radicals by replacing parts of hydrogen atoms with deuterium in them.

03.12.2008
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Evolution according to Skulachev: a reasonable and ageless man

Old age is a "relic of the past" inherited by man from animals, V.P. Skulachev believes. The goal of the Ion Skulachev project is to fight aging and prolong life. However, its results can be considered not only from a practical point of view – they provide the basis for new hypotheses related to human evolution.

03.12.2008
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Lifestyle Genetics

According to the latest research, our genes are not static. The human genome is an open system that reacts sensitively to the peculiarities of diet, lifestyle, as well as to external factors, such as the state of the environment.

12.11.2008
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"Pills for old age" are getting closer to clinical research

SRT1720 activates the same receptors in cells as the repeatedly studied compound resveratrol, which, as experiments have shown, prolongs the life of obese mice (and not only them) and makes rodents more resilient.

11.11.2008
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A long life is hidden in gene tumblers

"Elderly" nematodes Caenorhabditis elegans, in which researchers neutralized the expression of ELT-5 and ELT-6 factors, lived one and a half times longer than their ordinary counterparts.

30.10.2008
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Computer games and the Internet help to keep the mind young

Internet use improves brain activity, at least in middle-aged and elderly people, by stimulating the brain centers responsible for decision-making and complex reasoning. And 10 hours of a computer game specially designed for elderly drivers for 10 years "rejuvenate" the brain according to its functional capabilities.

15.10.2008
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Erythropoietin – doping for the brain?

It should not be forgotten, however, that the effect of all memory stimulators, including erythropoietin, is rather short-lived and does not lead to a more efficient functioning of the brain's own mechanisms, creating only the effect of additional activation of neurons, and even then largely indiscriminate.

08.10.2008
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Prolonging youth

Aubrey de Grey claims that the average life expectancy of people in developed countries will soon grow to a thousand or more years, and by 2100 to 5000.

11.07.2008
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The New American Dream: Limit Calories to Prolong Life

Anyway, today most American experts agree that everyone should do physical exercises, reduce stress loads and eat less. After all, the results of experiments with calorie restriction and dietary supplements will have to wait for several more decades.

03.07.2008
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Having children live longer

Having children, without a doubt, prolongs life. But, despite the statistically obvious data, the authors are cautious in their conclusions. There may also be an inverse relationship: perhaps people who are initially less healthy are less likely to have children. Which connection is stronger cannot be determined solely on the basis of statistical data.

06.06.2008