Scientists Unintentionally Reverse Biological Age of Humans by Years in Groundbreaking Study
“I’d expected to see slowing down of the clock, but not a reversal... That felt kind of futuristic.” ELIAS MARAT ( TMU ) — New research has shown that a solution may have been found to the problem of biological aging, not only slowing the process down but actually reversing it in a Benjamin Button-like manner. In a study by scientists from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), volunteers were given a cocktail of three common drugs for one year, including a growth hormone and two diabetes medications, in order to stimulate the regeneration of the thymus gland. Surprisingly, the researchers discovered that the participants lost an average of 2.5 years on their “epigenetic clock,” measured by analyzing the marks on a person’s genomes. The participants immune systems also revealed sure signs of rejuvenation, according to a study published in the journal Nature. UCLA geneticist Steve Horvath, who conducted the epigenetic analy...