The Secret to a Longer Life? Don’t Ask These Dead Longevity Researchers
Several years ago, a geologist named Anatoli Brouchkov harvested some bacteria that had survived in the Arctic permafrost for eons. When the bacteria was injected into female mice, the compound seemed to extend their youth. Though Dr. Brouchkov is neither female nor a mouse, he wondered whether it could slow his own aging — and ate some of it.
When I pointed out that this might have been a terrible idea, he giggled. “I was just curious,” he said. His attitude was: If you have found some prehistoric microbes, how could you not put them in your mouth?
In the field of anti-aging and longevity research, self-experiments are all the rage.… Seguir leyendo »
