Youth Pill Scientists at the Brink of an Anti-Aging Revolution

Name: Youth Pill Scientists at the Brink of an Anti-Aging Revolution
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ISBN: 9781617230080

ISBN-10: 1617230081

ISBN-13: 9781617230080

Edition: 2013

Authors: David Stipp

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Living longer is closer than we think. Even before the first person set off to find the Fountain of Youth, we were searching for a way to live longer. But promises of life extension have long reeked of snake oil, and despite our wishful thinking—not to mention the number of vitamins we pop—few of us believe we’ll live to see one hundred, much less set a longevity record. But now scientists are closing in on true breakthroughs in anti-aging. Compounds that dramatically extend the health spans of animals, including mammals, have recently been demonstrated in the lab, and gerontologists now generally agree that drugs that slow human aging and greatly boost health in later life are no longer a…

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List price: $16.00
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Publication date: 1/29/2013
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 336
Size: 5.51" wide x 8.43" long x 0.87" tall
Weight: 0.616
Language: English



Prologue: The Mouse Study that Roared



The Wild Old Wicked Mystery of Aging



Radicals Rise up



Hagrid's Bat and the Saber-Toothed Sausage



The Genes that Couldn't be



The Really Strange thing about Dwarfs



That Old Magic



Cracking the Life-Span Barrier



The Great Free Lunch



Red Wine's Enigmatic Dirty Drug



Rapamycin and the Tale of Tor



Sirtris, Master Voyager of the Vortex



The George Burns Scenario


Epilogue: Of Musty Mantras and Exciting Realities


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