A book by the science writer Graham Lawton, long-time writer at New Scientist, called “This Book Could Save Your Life”, has got interesting stuff in it for those of us on the slippery slope to Old Old. Has anyone tried its recommendations yet and if so what results? Diet, exercise and for a lucky blue-pill-popping few, a young girl friend, may not be enough in slowing the ageing process.
Lawton is not a quack promoting daft health theories. You will see his book, published by New Scientist, is neutral, balanced and makes no dumb recommendations. This paragraph (Page 324) interested me:
“Another option is to take one or other of the new anti-ageing nutritional supplements that are coming onto the market. These are designed to switch off MTOR (as you get older zombie cells accumulate in the body furthering the ageing process and the anti-ageing nutritional supplements are designed to help flush them out) and have been shown to work in mice; they are also proven to be safe for human consumption. One is Rejuvant, made by Florida’s Ponce de Leon and another Basis, made by Elysium Health.”
This is all explained in the chapter, Can I Live Forever? I won’t try to summarise the science because I’m bound to get it wrong.
Has anyone tried these anti-ageing nutritional supplements? If so for how long and what results have you noticed?
This Book Could Save Your Life: The Science of Living Longer Better (Paperback). Graham Lawton (author) Publisher: John Murray Press ISBN: 9781529311303
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