Scientists are on the verge of developing a 'long life' super pill which could help people live past 100, according to experts. The pill will even help people who are overweight or smoke - or both!The drug, which could be ready for testing within three years, is designed to mimic the actions of three 'super genes' which all significantly increase the chances of living past 100.
New Pill ‘Will Help People Live Past 100’
Scientists are on the verge of developing a ‘long life’ super pill which could help people live past 100, according to experts. The pill will even help people who are overweight or smoke – or both!
The drug, which could be ready for testing within three years, is designed to mimic the actions of three ‘super genes’ which all significantly increase the chances of living past 100.
Two of the genes increase the production of so-called good cholesterol in the body, reducing the risk of heart disease and stroke, while the third helps to prevent diabetes.
People born with the genes are 20 times more likely to live past 100, and 80% less likely to develop Alzheimer’s.
Even being overweight or a heavy smoker does not stop a third of those with the genes reaching a century.
The genes were discovered in a group of 500 Ashkenazi Jews living in New York with an average age of 100.
They were chosen after previous studies found they had a very specific genetic footprint because their bloodline had been kept very pure.
Although a third of the group were obese or had smoked two packets of cigarettes a day for more than 40 years, they all shared the three genes that extended life expectancy.
Those with the longevity genes had a one in 500 chance of reaching the age of 100, compared with a one in 10,000 chance in the rest of the population.
Dr Nir Barzilai, a director at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York, said that several laboratories were now in the process of creating a pill to trigger the same effects as the genes.
He expects the first of the drugs to be ready for testing within three years.
Living?
There’s living and then there’s “Living”
IMO living with pain and suffering and living in poverty while depending on others is not “Living”
Walking around CH when it’s 20 degrees at 100 years old and worrying about getting mugged is not “Living”
There’s all kinds of living.
whats the catch?
Live to a hundred years (the last fifty of which will be spent in a coma)
noah
I highly doubt it. There was a great writeup in FastCompany recently explaining some of the issues with genetically based ‘miracle drugs’:
http://www.fastcompany.com/…
ch resident
huh?
sorry but its up to hashem how long you live!!!
Hmmm
Interesting…..
Timies of Moshiach
Times of Moshiach are very very near
chani
BS”D
who are going to be the dummies who are foolish enough to be the guinea pigs.
eh eh, no way.
mikey b
where can i buy this now….
CHT
What is the name of the medicine?
wow
Moshiach’s times: living forever in a natural way…
Dayan M Kapoyer-Siechmach of Pipik
What is the name of the medicine?
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Chicken soup.
Anon
The world is slow being over populated and now we can live beyond 100. crikey!
modern frumkeit
Living? and whats the catch are fools. They are not doctors and dont understand this pill and how it works. sure, hashem is our healer but are you saying people shoudnt use doctors. youre an am haaretz making a chillul hashem if you think this