...right here in Denver.
Three Denver businessmen are gambling on a venture to sell a once-a-day pill they say could extend life spans to 120 years or more - without age-related scourges like cancer, heart disease or Alzheimer's.
"The problem is it almost sounds too good to be true," said Bill Driscoll, chief executive of Lifeline Nutraceuticals, the Denver company that plans to put the supplement on store shelves by late 2004.
It could take them 10 years to get to the market as a drug, but Lifeline may be able to offer their product as a food supplement by next year. To be branded as Protandim, the product is designed to produce (or rather encourage the producation of) a brain protein that fights disease-and-age-inducing free radicals via the production of antioxidants.
As Randall Parker has duly reported, there is good reason to believe that increasing antioxidant production will be helpful in minimizing the damage of aging. But if we really want to cure it, we will need something more like Aubrey de Grey's engineered negligible sesescence.
Posted by Phil at December 8, 2003 10:58 AM | TrackBackThe website is certainly more informative than the article. It states that Lifeline Nutraceutical's protandim product acts by up-regulating superoxide dismutase, catalase and glutathionne peroxidase. If it can really do that (and that might be a big "if"), then it really might be something.
The site is at wwww.lifelinenutraceuticals.com There is a separate page on the SOD, Cat stuff.
The company and science seems pretty legit, but you never know in this industry.
Posted by: jackson at December 10, 2003 04:48 PMWhy are you so scared of dying? Who wants to live to be 120 years old? I can't keep up with all the reading, so forgive me if I'm missing something here.
My biggest question is: Should I be making investments in adult sized disposable diapers? Is this going to be a big thing - the living longer, or will urinary, etc. incontinence be taken care of also?
In making smart investments, we are frequently advised to invest in assets rather than liabilities. If AI takes over, can the human body be seen as anything other than a huge liability? Just curious.
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Posted by: Mary Definitely On The Outer Ring at December 12, 2003 11:58 PM