Re: Antioxidant hype, was Re: [DIYbio] Need a paper please

Antioxidants. Targeted at mitochondria. Slowing aging.

Really? I hope you've got a paper to back that claim up.

And I have yet to see a serious paper out of anyone showing that they understand aging any better than the "nuts and berries as medicine" crowd. The most recent I've seen suggested they slowed aging because they had reduced biomarkers of aging, not that they had a meaningful impact of actual lifespans.

I'm not opposed to serious work on the causes of aging. In that sense, I'm practically a transhumanist myself, except that I'm more interested in hacking the body than preserving it forever. I expect real science, though, not made up nonsense. I'm also averse to people hiding behind a pseudonym meant to convey how much smarter or more logical they are.

Matt Harbowy -hbergeronx@gmail.com
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> On Apr 23, 2014, at 2:19 PM, Reason <reason@fightaging.org> wrote:
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> To complicate matters it is quite clearly the case that antioxidants targeted to mitochondria do in fact slow aging. One research group even has a class of such compounds that is orally ingested. That will no doubt muddy up the messaging further once it becomes widely available, while still being pretty much irrelevant to any serious effort to greatly extend human life spans.
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