NEW ANTI AGING DRUG

HOW DO I CONFRONT aging?

With a terror or wonder..

Soon their will be no need of confronting aging, a new anti aging drug may be just 5 years away.

Researchers at the University of Birmingham believe that inhibiting the enzyme could hold the key to developing ways of preventing, or reversing, the adverse effects of aging.

Scientists identified the role of an enzyme in muscle wasting and associated age related problems say, “a new anti-ageing drug may be five years away”

The research is a significant step in understanding the role 

played by the enzyme 11beta-HSD1 in the degenerative effects

 of aging -including sarcopenia (age related muscle wasting). 

Researchers claim the anti-aging drug could be available to the general public within the next five years. The expression of 11beta-HSD1, responsible for activating the steroid hormone cortisol, was increased in the muscles of older females.
About 134 healthy volunteers, aged between 20-80, underwent physical and biochemical tests at a clinical research facility. The findings show that expression of 11beta-HSD1 in skeletal muscles is increased 2.72-fold in women over 60 years of age, compared to those aged between 20 and 40. In male participants, no difference was seen.

"As yet, we don't know why it appears to only occur in women, it is obviously an interesting area for further research. 
We are planning to look at whether hormones such as estrogens could be involved," Dr zaki hasan smith, from the University of Birmingham, said. The researchers wanted to investigate novel ways of increasing healthy life span -the years in which people can maintain active lifestyles without the debilitating impact of muscle wasting.
"Looking at this particular enzyme seemed like an intriguing way forward. We knew how it works in relation to Cushing's Syndrome, which is characterised by similar symptoms, and thought it would be worthwhile applying what we knew to the aging population," said Hassan-Smith.
this research would surely be a boom in market after few years but what I personaly feel is old age or aging simply mean that you have lived longer.

Many people say they don’t want to be old because they think that getting old automatically means you age. This is simply not true.

“And in the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.” - Abraham Lincoln