Researchers at the Salk Institute found a drug candidate aimed at preventing Alzheimer's disease also appeared to have anti-aging benefits such as better memory and cognition, and better physical health, when tested on mice. The research has been published in the journal Aging .
The drug, developed by the Salk Institute team, is called J147. It was specifically designed to combat one of the major risk factors in 99 percent of Alzheimer's cases, old age. However, it was only designed to target one specific factor of old age, neurotoxicity. This is the exposure to toxic substances that damage nervous tissue and neurons, and is a major cause of Alzheimer's, which is estimated to affect up to 46.8 million people worldwide.
"Initially, the impetus was to test this drug in a novel animal model that was more similar to 99 percent of Alzheimer's cases," says lead author Antonio Currais, a member of Professor David Schubert's Cellular Neurobiology Laboratory at Salk. "We did not predict we'd see this sort of anti-aging effect, but J147 made old mice look like they were young, based upon a number of physiological parameters."
(Score: 2) by frojack on Thursday November 19 2015, @10:00PM
Lets not confuse science fiction with science fact here, ok?
There is no indication of increased longevity in these mice attributable to the j147 diet.
Almost all the effects the study measured were in brain health and performance.
At best this might translate into an increased quality of life in elderly humans.
No, you are mistaken. I've always had this sig.