First test of anti-aging drugs in humans

Recently, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has officially granted permission to test a drug that is considered to actually "prevent human aging". The test will take place in 2018.

According to experts, this drug can really help people live to the age of 110-120 but still healthy, not suffering from "age-related" conditions such as Alzheimer's and Parkinson's.

It sounds like a fictional film, but science has done some research proving that anti-diabetes drugs - specifically metformin - have the ability to prolong life in animals. And now, FDA has officially licensed human trials, to test the effects of drugs.

If successful, a 70-year-old will be as healthy as 50 in terms of biology. In addition, it will lay the foundation for a new biological era, where science does not need to take time to fight diseases like cancer, diabetes, dementia . but simply the basic process. especially "aging" only.

If you slow down the aging process, you also make the disease develop more slowly.

Professor Gordon Lithgow from Buck Aging Research Institute (California, USA), one of the experts of the study shared:

"If you slow down the aging process, you also make the disease develop more slowly. This is an unprecedented breakthrough."

"We have reason to believe it. In the future, biotechnology will grow and apply to people."

"Only 20 years ago, the aging process was a mystery to science. Now we understand what is happening."

In fact, aging is not a mandatory process for life, because at the DNA level we can stay active without ever stopping. For marine life, some species never even age.

People live longer, but also younger.

In humans, however, aging is a process of cell division, and each time our body suffers a bit of damage. At one point, the vulnerability was too great, that was when we were too weak to survive.

Currently, science believes that the best anti-aging drug is metformin - the most popular anti-diabetes drug today. Metformin works to increase the amount of oxygen molecules in the cell, thereby helping to increase life expectancy and vitality.

In some experiments on C.elegan nematode, metformin helps them not only aging more slowly, but also very well. As for mice, their lifespan increased by 40%, their bones were also firmer. In addition, it was noted that patients taking metformin had a higher life expectancy than normal estimates.

Many scientists believe that this test will be successful."If we really do even a small part, that's a big step. People live longer, but feel younger," said Dr. Jay Olshansky of the University of Illinois in Chicago.

"Advances in the study of aging in recent years have made us believe it. It works on many other animals, and we have reason to believe it works on people."

People are going to have a medically large revolution if tested successfully.

On average, a girl born today is expected to live 82.8 years, while boys are 78.8 (data from the US National Archives). But if the drug is successful, the life expectancy of both will increase by at least 50%.

Lithgow's prediction, in the future, we will be given drugs like "anti-aging vaccine". Obviously, this will be a big step.

However, some people also wonder about the new drug, especially in terms of its price and market access. They argue that the price of drugs can be pushed up, while it is essentially a drug for diabetics at a relatively cheap price.

Anyway, let the future answer. Only knowing that the next person will have a major medical revolution if tested successfully.