Anti-ageing supplements are looking to be a promising option for European investors interested in longevity products. Metformin, a drug used to treat Type 2 diabetes, and others, such as melatonin, NMN, and resveratrol, have all been promoted as having anti-ageing properties. For longevity investors, these are all relatively low-hanging fruits; they have promising effects but aren’t too out there or difficult to provide, especially when compared to plasma transfusions from young people or 3D-printed organ replacements. Read full article here
Oddities
The Curious Case of the Ancient Brain
In 2008, archaeologists examining the University of York discovered something strange: the decapitated head of an Iron Age man and his very shrivelled but very much intact brain. How a centuries-old brain was preserved is still unknown, but research suggests that it could have been because of brain diseases like dementia. The Yorkshire man’s brain’s proteins were bunched up together, much like how dementia causes brain proteins to bunch up into plaques. This bunching up, or aggregation, could continue even after death, turning regions of the brain into hard masses. Read full article here
Merv
September 30, 2022
