Eternal Youth And Immortality

The search of eternal youth is often confused with the fruitless attempt to seek immortality. That's not to say crazy efforts had not been exercised by some for that impossible aim. The magazine 'Science' had published the result of 20 years of Investigation and experiments on primates, with the conclusion that if the food in take is 30% less, as long as respecting the proportion of all essential nutrients, the males would live longer and the females very much longer.

Whether this effect would apply to humans is not known yet. Considering that this new law, biologically speaking, also works with rats and worms, it's encouraging to continue investigating the possibility of including humans. Nothing is said whether such experiment is being studied, at least not officially, but outside the laboratories, people automatically cut down on their food consumption during summer, simply by losing appetite due to the heat, or by design with the objective of looking slimmer in bikinis and tight swimming trunks. In either case, the prospect is the same according to the science, you live longer.

Adding to that is the concluded fact that now what was deemed as impossible before with regard to certain illnesses, diseases and operations, are now found to be possible. Most encouraging is the discovery that losing one's kidney as result of illness, accident or donation, the remaining kidney can grow notably, to compensate the functionality of the other.

A team of medical science investigators in Spain has discovered in rats the protein 'Tweak' that is responsible to regulate the division of cells, increase their number and therefore the renal mass, according to the work of the team, directed by Alberto Ortiz, and published recently in the 'Journal of Cell and Molecular medicine'.

The same team is also investigating on finding Anti-Tweak, because, positive though it is to regenerate cells to the injured kidney, this protein can also induce the division of tumorous cells! What then? Eeny, meey, miny moe ... ?

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