Pill To Live To 150

The drugs are synthetic versions of resveratrol, found in red wine, an organic chemical believed to have an anti-ageing effect, by boosting activity of a protein called SIRT1.

GSK, the pharmaceutical firm, is testing them on people with particular medical conditions, namely Type II diabetes and psoriasis, a serious skin condition.

David Sinclair, professor of genetics at Harvard University, said ageing might not actually be an “irreversible affliction”.

He said: “Now we are looking at whether there are benefits for those who are already healthy.

“Things there are also looking promising. We’re finding that ageing isn’t the irreversible affliction that we thought it was.

“Some of us could live to 150, but we won’t get there without more research.”

He explained that increasing SIRT1 activity improved how well our cells operated, making them less sluggish. In previous experiments, mice, bees and flies given the SIRT1-boosting compounds lived longer.

MORE HERE

Wow ,to be able to live to 150 years old wouldn’t that be something.Probably look like a wrinkled prune but hey, sounds good to me.