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Scientists Discover Possible Anti-Aging Gene
werelnon writes "The BBC is running an article about researchers who seem to have discovered a gene which controls aging. By stimulating this gene, which when malfunctioning causes premature aging, scientists have managed to prolong the average life span of lab mice from 2 to 3 years. Because a very similar gene is present in humans it is quite possible it will do the same thing for people." From the article: "But there may be downsides with Klotho. The long-lived mice in the new experiments tend to be less fertile. And the gene may also predispose people to diabetes. The trick for researchers will be to find ways of getting the life-enhancing results of Klotho while avoiding the drawbacks."
You can get a life expectancy of 160+ years if you don't have any nutritional defeciencies. All you need to do is have the correct amount of Vitamin A, B, C, D etc and all other trace minerals, and you're fine. We shouldn't have to cheat death like this.
I'll subscribe to Slashdot when I see a month without a dupe, a typo, or an article the "editors" didn't read.
No. The fertility and diabetes complications come from specific (known) genetic interactions between this gene and those phenotypes. Other anti-aging therapies do not have those complications.
At the beginning of the world, during the time of Adam and right up to Noah, mankind lived exponentially longer than today. The average lifespan was 912 years (for a span of 1700 years) on a strict vegetarian diet:
Genesis 1:29 "And God said, "Behold, I have given you every plant yielding seed which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree with seed in its fruit; you shall have them for food."
In fact, every animal also ate a vegetarian diet! There was no consumption of flesh, even among the lions and sharks:
Genesis 1:30 "And to every beast of the earth, and to every fowl of the air, and to every thing that creepeth upon the earth, wherein there is life, I have given every green herb for meat: and it was so".
It wasn't until after the flood of Noah's day, when the climate was completely altered and plant-based foods became scarse, that God allowed the eating of flesh. You'll see the condition was that all blood needed to be drained from the animal first (is this where the belief of eating kosher foods stems from, can someone confirm or deny?).
Genesis 9:3 "Every moving thing that lives shall be food for you. I have given you all things, even as the green herbs. But you shall not eat flesh with its life, that is, its blood."
Anyhoo, after this time, lifespans became dramatically shorter.
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