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Interesting article, but how does that correlate with the thread title?
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oops, sorry, modified the title
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How long before scam artists will start selling placebos claiming that they reverse aging?
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The only way to slow the NAD drop was to restrict calories and exercise intensively. In this work, the researchers used a compound that cells transform into NAD to repair the broken network and rapidly restore communication and mitochondrial function. It mimics the effects of diet and exercise. [...] If the compound is administered early enough in the aging process, in just a week, the muscles of the older mice were indistinguishable from the younger animals.
Sound a bit like steroid for mice. I saw the original title of this thread and I guess that one common mistake is to think that reverse aging means long life extension. I don't have any specific knowledge in this, but I guess it may end up as a good technique to prevent some kind of cancer. Thought, I doubt the rest of the body can easily adapt to younger muscle to make you live significantly longer without secondary effect.
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How long before scam artists will start selling placebos claiming that they reverse aging?
The scam market has already all sort of gurus in this world that offer odd medicine/spiritual therapy and such. So that shouldn't take too long. One of the oldest tricks could be anything related to alchemy(we got rid of) or to metallotherapy where a jeweller can often get quite a lot of money for selling a piece of metal at high price.
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Assuming this can actually reverse aging, my only thoughts of this would be how sad it would be if shortly after you've done this, you got killed off by a car accident. I wonder how many people would actually think biological immortality == true immortality? :P