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> In 2019, a small study raised the tantalizing prospect that ageing could be reversed. Scientists in California gave 9 men aged 51 to 65 a growth hormone and
by f38zf5vdt 5y ago
> In 2019, a small study raised the tantalizing prospect that ageing could be reversed. Scientists in California gave 9 men aged 51 to 65 a growth hormone and two diabetes medications for a year. The drugs seemed to rejuvenate the men’s thymus glands and immune function. They also shaved 2.5 years off the men’s biological age, as measured by one of the most talked-about technologies in ageing research: epigenetic clocks.
It's also worth nothing that another study shaved "3.2 years" off the "epigenetic clock" simply with lifestyle changes over 2 months. [1]
[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8064200/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8064200/