Some Immediate Benefits of Life Extension Measures III

GENERAL STAMINA can be greatly increased in a short period of time. For example, calcium pantothenate, the anti stress and life extension vitamin, has been shown to increase total muscular output: (stamina rather than peak output) in frog leg muscles-suspended in a pantothenate solution. Rats taking pantothenate supplements increase their total muscular work output very […]

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Our Subversive Free Radicals VIII

Although the work was directed at amyloid formation, data was also cited that showed the pronounced beneficial effect on the mice’s mortality rate by adding Santoquin antioxidant to the diet. Without the antioxidant in the diet, 20% survived to 1814 months; on diets with 0.2% Santoquin, 20% survived for 23 months. This was not the […]

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Molecules of Life and Life Extension: An Introduction to the Cast I

… all diseases may by sure means be prevented or cured, not excepting that of old age, and our lives lengthened at pleasure even beyond the antediluvian standard. —Benjamin Franklin, in a letter to English chemist Joseph Priestley The same molecules that serve us well by keeping us alive and healthy can, if they fail […]

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Some Social Consequences of Life Extension

Death, be not proud, though some have called thee Mighty and dreadful; for thou art not so…. And Death shall be no more: Death, thou shalt die! —John Donne (1573-1631) The consequences to ourselves and our society of greatly extended human life span are sure to be far reaching. An extended life span does not […]

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