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Professor Vladimir Skulachev says he managed to find an anti-oxidant that stops the gradual deterioration of health caused by age.
“99% of the time oxygen turns into harmless water, but there's that one percent that turns into a super-oxide that later turns into very poisonous elements,” Vladimir Skulachev, Professor of Bioenergetics, reveals. “So the task was to find an anti-oxidant that stops that process.”
- I wonder if this drug will have other medical benifits, possibly curing other health issues, AIDS, cancer, ect....
After success with eye drops in animals, the inventor tried the medicine on his own cataract. Six months later, his physician told him his cataract was gone.
Originally posted by oozyism
reply to post by buni11687
On a brighter side, getting old is not about the chemistry, it is about the mind. We have the biological possibility to grow much, much older and stay much, much younger than we are now. Use your own head, and don't have a frown on your head everyday, that is what gets you old and gets you killed.
When you get sick of life, you die, the process is much slower though, hence you get sick of it a little, you get some wrinkles, you get sick of it more, your wrinkles double etc..