In the past, philosophers and scientists have long been interested in the process of aging. However, interests in this amazing and highly important topic was barely even discussed before the 1960s. In recent decades, the interests in aging has greatly accumulated, and the reason to that is not only the elderly takes up most of the percentage of the population, but because they make use of a sufficiently great proportion of the national spending funds. Furthermore, most people have realized that they can now have a extremely happy, active, and productive life beyond the normal retirement age. Scientifically speaking, aging is an extremely complex process and requires a number of causes. Although it is very clear that our genes influence aging
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The study involves Harvard University and the University of New South Wales, they have discovered a way of restoring the efficiency of cells, completely reversing the aging process in muscles. In their experiments, two year old mice were giving the compound over a week, looking back at the key indicators of aging to that of a six month old mouth. Researchers and scientists said that this was equivalent to a sixty year old person feeling as if they were only twenty year old. Scientists are looking forward to how the theory of age reversal can be used to treat diseases, for example, cancer, dementia and diabetes. This research is focused on the mitochondria part of the cell, which produces energy. Over time, the communication between the mitochondria and the cell nucleus will degrade, which leads to the aging process. Researchers and scientists injects a chemical called nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide, or NAD, this is a coenzyme form of the vitamin niacin, it reduces in the body as we age. The insertion of this chemical, or compound, led to the radical reversal in the aging of the test subject mouses. This “magic pill” that reverses aging will most likely to still be a several years away, due to the fact that the cost of the compound, which would cost around
The study involves Harvard University and the University of New South Wales, they have discovered a way of restoring the efficiency of cells, completely reversing the aging process in muscles. In their experiments, two year old mice were giving the compound over a week, looking back at the key indicators of aging to that of a six month old mouth. Researchers and scientists said that this was equivalent to a sixty year old person feeling as if they were only twenty year old. Scientists are looking forward to how the theory of age reversal can be used to treat diseases, for example, cancer, dementia and diabetes. This research is focused on the mitochondria part of the cell, which produces energy. Over time, the communication between the mitochondria and the cell nucleus will degrade, which leads to the aging process. Researchers and scientists injects a chemical called nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide, or NAD, this is a coenzyme form of the vitamin niacin, it reduces in the body as we age. The insertion of this chemical, or compound, led to the radical reversal in the aging of the test subject mouses. This “magic pill” that reverses aging will most likely to still be a several years away, due to the fact that the cost of the compound, which would cost around