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>It seems too good to be true, but biochemist Jesús Gil speaks enthusiastically from his laboratory in London. “There is no reason to think that what we have seen in mice will not work in people,” he says. What they have observed in rodents is verging on the miraculous: a team of scientists has given monthly injections of a simple antibody to mice that are almost 18 months old, an age equivalent to 55 human years. These animals have lived up to 25% longer than their peers and in good health, with lower incidence of cancer, less cholesterol, and greater muscle strength. It is as if human life expectancy had skyrocketed to 104 years, instead of the current 83 in Spain, for example.

Archive: https://archive.today/mxsLi From the post: >>It seems too good to be true, but biochemist Jesús Gil speaks enthusiastically from his laboratory in London. “There is no reason to think that what we have seen in mice will not work in people,” he says. What they have observed in rodents is verging on the miraculous: a team of scientists has given monthly injections of a simple antibody to mice that are almost 18 months old, an age equivalent to 55 human years. These animals have lived up to 25% longer than their peers and in good health, with lower incidence of cancer, less cholesterol, and greater muscle strength. It is as if human life expectancy had skyrocketed to 104 years, instead of the current 83 in Spain, for example.

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Studies in laboratory mice for such things should be looked on with extreme amounts of skepticism. Laboratory mice have un-naturally long telemeres. This makes them highly susceptible to cancer (all laboratory mice will die of cancer if not killed by something else), but also highly tolerant of harmful "therapies", their bodies are able to repair large amounts of damage from exposure to toxins, at the cost of high cancer susceptibility. The physiology of laboratory mice has become incompatible with their role in testing the safety of human medications, to the benefit of pharmaceutical companies (which is why nothing is done about it despite this being known for well over a decade).

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I agree. When I read the part about how "it works in mice it should work in people" I laughed. Yeah man, in a ideal world. That is almost never true.