X-Message-Number: 24861 Date: Tue, 19 Oct 2004 00:18:42 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug Skrecky <> Subject: 50 to 90 years to a 200 year lifespan? > Message #24852 From: > Things might not stand for the next 50 or 90 years the way they > stand today > Unfortunately this may do little good to people in the over 50 generation. The way I see it the most likely fate of people like you and me are variations on Roy Walford's fate. We might beat his expiry date of 79 by a few years, but acheive little more than this, unless - some major breakthrough is made very soon. It seems the prospects for this are not good, if one polls medical scientists. Currently the only dietary alteration that I am aware of that *might* have a large impact is a very low AGE/ALE diet. This dramatically lengthened lifespan in a relatively short lived diabetic rodent model. It has not been tested in long lived rodent species, except indirectly via calorie restriction. However these diets only lower AGE/ALE intake by 30 - 50%, and the lifespan results in middle aged rodents have not been good. A diet truly low in Advanced Glycoxidation/Lipoxidation End-products has yet to be tested. [eg: RIP Doomed Doug: 85 years (lots of nuts & no smoking) Brave Ben: 95 years (Lots of vegys & CR) Audacious Aubry: 8595 years (and counting)] Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=24861