14 DAY TRIAL // Odds are immortality will remain beyond our reach for many decades to come, yet those who feel that their current life expectancy fails to see eye to eye with their hopes for the future can take comfort in the fact that highly efficient anti-aging drugs are likely to be rolled out in just 5 years' time. According to the specialists now working on developing these drugs, the anti-aging pills expected to soon hit markets worldwide will add not years, but decades to one's life.
Not to beat about the bush: rumor has it that these drugs will help people live long enough to reach the age of 150, Daily Mail reports.
Interestingly enough, these pills are actually red wine inspired, meaning that their chemical make-up is based on a compound commonly found in said beverage.
This chemical compound is known to the scientific community as resveratrol. As several studies have shown, tackling aging and its effects is something resveratrol can do quite well, courtesy of its being able to boost the activity of a protein referred to as SIRT1.
For the time being, resveratrol-based drugs are being tested on individuals suffering with medical conditions such as cancer, diabetes and heart disease.
Still, the researchers in charge of carrying out these clinical trials are fairly confident that their work might soon translate into the development of an entirely new class of anti-aging drugs.
“Ultimately, these drugs would treat one disease, but unlike drugs of today, they would prevent 20 others. In effect, they would slow aging,” argued David Sinclair, a genetics professor currently working with the University of Harvard.
“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 aging 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,” Professor Sinclair later added.