Can David Sinclair heal old age?
This is a wonderful, friendly, and well-written essay about the life, discoveries, and carrier of Dr David Sinclair, and also on sirtuins and the epigenetic theory for aging. Also, it includes resveratrol and nicotinamide dinucleotide (NAD+) and healthy aging.
Since my visit to the Harvard Medical School lab run by Australian geneticist David Sinclair I have been fighting a shamefully lustful impulse. How can I obtain the wonder molecules Sinclair has been testing on mice with amazing results, slowing their ageing and even reversing some of it? Since I learned from Sinclair, that at least one third of his colleagues take some form of these \”antiaging\” molecules in the same way he does to increase their health by up to 10 years, my fear of missing out grew. It’s not only about living longer, but also living in better health.
When a scientist who is respected tells you that he will soon be 50 and has no grey hair, and according to his regular blood and DNA tests, he has the biologically age of 31.4, despite being a workaholic, and not exercising much, it’s hard to remain neutral. He likes to believe that the molecules he gave his mother, who had only one lung after lung cancer, prolonged her life for 20 years. His 79-year old father also takes them and lists mountaineering and whitewater rafting as his hobbies. Sandra Luikenhuis gives the molecules to her husband’s family dogs. Luikenhuis is a doctor in genetics at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She began taking these molecules after she saw the positive effects they had on the family dogs.
Sinclair’s family, if all goes according to plan, will prove that it is still possible to survive the personal apocalypse we each face. Philip Roth called this \”massacre of ageing\”. Imagine being able to still be standing after all the dust has settled, not as one of the \”walking wounded\”, but instead thriving.
Source:
https://www.themonthly.com.au/issue/2018/september/1535724000/ceridwen-dovey/can-david-sinclair-cure-old-age
