Ralph Carlson Blog

You can’t avoid aging. As the years pass, the deterioration of the body is impossible to stop but maybe you can slow it down or manage it. There isn’t much known for certain about aging and most of our treatments are little more than wishful thinking. There are a few proven things, however. We do know that calorie restriction will increase the life spans of primitive animals. Studies to demonstrate that calorie restriction will increase the life spans of humans are a long way off but there is enough evidence to suggest that this method may increase lifespans to get some experts excited. There is a problem. Calorie restriction (starvation) is not an attractive lifestyle for most people. For this reason, drugs which stimulate the same gene expression as calorie restriction are exciting some researchers. While the effect on human lifespans is unproven, use of these drugs has increased. One of those drugs is resveratrol. [continue reading…]