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I think popular press of animal studies is mostly clickbait, especially aging studies. The lifetimes of mice are so small compared to humans that you have to a

I think popular press of animal studies is mostly clickbait, especially aging studies. The lifetimes of mice are so small compared to humans that you have to apply large scaling factors. An old mouse would be a very young human. How valid the scaling factors are is a different story.

James_Henry 6y ago
In this study they didn't look at the lifespans of the mice, they looked at markers of the health of different types of tissues. A lot of the time when something is about "reversing aging" it's about improving health so that organs of the old work more like those of the young or curing diseases of old age and not necessarily about increasing lifespan.