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A New Anti-Aging Pill Could Really Exist
Have you ever heard of resveratrol? Neither had we. It's the plant compound found in red wine, said to help prevent cancer and diabetes. Now it may even prolong your life.New research from the National Institutes of Health and the Glenn Foundation for Medical Research has come out contradicting a 2010 claim by the National Institutes for Aging that resveratrol does not extend lifespan.
Doubts had caused the pharmaceutical company Sirtris to stop its clinical trials of resveratrol last year in an effort to develop an anti-aging pill, but this natural compound found in grapes, blueberries and red wine is now back on the map, due to a new study that appeared in the May issue of Cell Metabolism. The NIH and the Glenn Foundation discovered something new that the NIA research did not: resveratrol's anti-aging effects only works when a specific gene is present, namely SIRT1. In other words, no SIRT1, no anti-aging effects — which means that resveratrol's influence on the gene is significant.
One new piece of evidence, and suddenly it might be possible to live forever — or at least for research to continue into the development of an anti-aging pill.