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Reversal of Aging?
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By Paul H. Kim, MD, Medical Institute of Healthy Aging
Tales of the “Fountain of Youth” have been part of our ancient lore for thousands of years.
Herodotus in the 5th Century BC, Alexander the Great romances in the 3rd century AD, and Prester John in the 11th/12th century AD as part of the crusades are only some of the references in history to a water product that is meant to restore health and youth. Of course, probably the most famous one of these tales is of the Spanish explorer Juan Ponce de Leon, and the so-called “Fountain of Youth” in the sixteenth century.
Recently, an article from September 2019 in Aging Cell references a “cocktail” of products that has been found in limited study to reverse an “epigenetic clock”(the epigenome is the complete description of all the chemical modifications to DNA that turn on and off genes) in our body. This was a very limited study of nine healthy volunteers between the age of 51 and 65 who were followed for 1 year after taking a cocktail of product. What they found was quite surprising. On average, these subjects were found to have shed 2.5 years of their biological aging. The participants’ immune systems also were showing signs of being rejuvenated.
According to the one of the lead authors, geneticist Steve Horvath, they had expected maybe a slowing down of the clock – but what they achieved was a reversal, which is quite remarkable. The study is very limited, very small, and not well controlled. But it is still promising that products given may actually not only slow aging, but also reverse aging!
Please come to Medical Institute of Healthy Aging to discuss this concept and others to help improve your aging process.
