Anti-Aging Benefits Could Be Found in Blood

Putting the benefits of exercise and youth in a pill sounds like the stuff of infomercials. But these researchers may be closer than anyone to harnessing those.

By Dan Hurley
Jun 9, 2023 12:00 PM
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Are you ready for a Super Age-Reducing supplement, a revolutionary, clinically proven, all-natural remedy guaranteed to make you look 20 years younger and 30 pounds lighter — or your money back?

We’ve all seen some variation of this message: another hard sell for a product that promises the benefits of youth or exercise (or something else) in a pill.

But what if legitimate researchers were actually developing drugs that could one day do what those sketchy late-night infomercials and YouTube videos have been claiming for years? That is exactly what scientists at leading universities across the U.S. are doing, by searching for factors circulating in our own blood that appear to confer the healthful benefits of youth and exercise.

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