<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000"><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)"> Darin Sunley I'm not sure what you call that, but 'science' doesn't seem like quite the right word."</span><br></div></div><div class="gmail_quote"><div><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)">Sure, but it cost next to nothing, probably did not have to get permission from anyone but the SS. Lots of good science has been birthed from 'Oh what the Hell, something might happen'. Human growth does something - let's find out what. billw</div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, Sep 6, 2019, 2:10 PM John Clark via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org" target="_blank">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><font size="4">The study was conducted by cryobiologist Dr. Gregory Fahy and involved Human Growth Hormone and two common diabetes drugs, dehydroepiandrosterone (DHEA) and metformin. The results are interesting because it didn't just slow down the biological clock it reversed it, but it may not be rock solid because the clinical study was small ( just 9 white men between 51 and 65) and it did not contain a control. The discovery was an accident, the drug trial was set up to see if growth hormone could be safely used to restore the thymus gland and anti-diabetic drugs were only include<span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">d</span> because growth hormone can cause diabetes. After the trial was over they found that in 7 of the 9 men the thymus was restored, and then as a<span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">n</span> afterthought Fahy checked on their epigenetic clock and got a surprise. </font><br><div><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font size="4"><br></font></span></div><div><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font size="4">It seems to me the next step should be to try this drug cocktail in mice and see if they live longer. </font></span><div><div><div><div><font size="4"><br></font><div><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font size="4"><a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-02638-w?utm_source=Nature+Briefing&utm_campaign=eae3387943-briefing-dy-20190906&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_c9dfd39373-eae3387943-44221073" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">Drugs seemed to rejuvenate the body’s ‘epigenetic clock</a></font><br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font size="4">John K Clark</font></div></div>
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