RE: specific amino acid restriction does the same thing as calorie restriction?

From: Robert J. Bradbury (bradbury@aeiveos.com)
Date: Sun Apr 20 2003 - 09:47:07 MDT

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    On Sat, 19 Apr 2003, Reason wrote:

    > a) the gene-and-protein-expression-tinkerers have figured out a pill/therapy
    > that does the same thing as CR.

    This is going to be *very* tricky -- you have to tell most of cells
    in the body to enter a CR state but you have to tell the appetite
    sensing mechanisms in the brain that you *aren't* CR.

    > b) regenerative medicine can fix most of the major degenerative diseases and
    > researchers are starting in on building therapies for the root causes of
    > aging.

    Real fixes are probably going to require biobots or nanobots. Until we
    have them we will just be in postponement mode.

    > If neither has happened in a decade from now, I, for one, will be
    > disappointed.

    I'm guessing we will probably have biobots before we really understand
    enough to program them to help deal with the problem. We really need
    the elephant and bowhead (or blue) whale genomes and we aren't likely
    to get those until late in the decade. And we probably will not get
    nanobots for 20 years minimum.

    Robert



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