Elixir of Eternal Youth Finally Found?

For years, many women have been seeking for best acne treatment and the best anti ageing creams and scientists claimed to have found what can potentially become the elixir of eternal youth, the protein telomerase.

Tolemerase is extracted from the plant astragalus which is commonly used in Chinese medicine. The protein protects DNA strands in chromosomes from thinning out and thus help in slowing down the process of aging.

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A team of researchers at the Spanish National Cancer Centre in Madrid genetically engineered mice to produce 10 times the normal levels of this protein and they lived 50 percent longer that the normal mice.

More research is however needed before telomerase can be marketed commercially particularly because boosting the levels of telomerase increases risks of cancer.

Sources:
http://geniusbeauty.com/news/elixir-eternal-youth-found/
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/healthnews/3489881/Scientists-take-a-step-closer-to-an-elixir-of-youth.html

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