Woah, this would be good on humans

Lavish wrote

Australian and US researchers have developed a compound which reverses muscle ageing in mice, saying it could be one of the keys to reversing ageing in humans.

When used in trials, the compound gave mice more energy, toned their muscles, reduced inflammation, and led to big improvements in insulin resistance.

Scientists say it actually reversed the ageing process, not just slowing it down, and say that for humans the effect would be similar to a 60-year-old feeling like a 20-year-old.

And they say human trials could start within the year.

The study has been published this morning in the research journal Cell.

"I've been studying ageing at the molecular level now for nearly 20 years and I didn't think I'd see a day when ageing could be reversed. I thought we'd be lucky to slow it down a little bit," University of New South Wales geneticist Professor David Sinclair said.

"The mice had more energy, their muscles were as though they'd be exercising and it was able to mimic the benefits of diet and exercise just within a week."

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let me pull out my $40,000 everyday... other than that its pretty cool they found this out.

Here is the catcher though:

the effect would be similar to a 60-year-old feeling like a 20-year-old.

You will still look old as hell.

Well, it's a start. Who knows, maybe they'll reverse physical aging as well someday.

Lavish wrote Here is the catcher though:

the effect would be similar to a 60-year-old feeling like a 20-year-old.

You will still look old as hell.

It would be pretty creepy seeing some 80 year old grandma running down the road or swimming in a bikini.

doesn't seem right.

at the moment they are trying to stop over population, and now this is being developed?

viruses are deliberately made and used to stop over-population, example: HIV/Aids not curable? was obviously made to stop over-population.

The_Road_To_WW3 wrote

Lavish wrote Here is the catcher though:

the effect would be similar to a 60-year-old feeling like a 20-year-old.

You will still look old as hell.

It would be pretty creepy seeing some 80 year old grandma running down the road or swimming in a bikini.

I think 80 Year Old Grandmas still do that.. Lol

I think it would be kind of a problem if they did this to human. The world would be so over populated, more than it already is, and we would run out of resources.

I Reckon you would still look old but i think it would be a waste of money