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Well, it purports in animals to prevent the onset of breast cancer...in mice...and it purports to prolong the life of a mouse by about 50%. Now, whether that's translated into human terms we don't know because the money has been spent to do it.
But if it's true, it could be remarkable. It's a drug first isolated by a friend of mine in France who's a laboratory research man and paid no attention to whether it was ever used or not.
It was just for the sheer joy of finding it...
Yes, that's all.
And there are others?
There are a number of others. I can send you a list. Would you like to have a list?
Yes, surely I have an article here on aging, the process, and how to delay it; and it starts out: “Our life span is fixed. Scientific advances are increasing our life expectancy but not our span.”
Well, nobody knows for sure what our span is yet.
Anthropologists say it has been the same for a hundred thousand years.
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