Is 90 the new 50?  Not yet, aging researchers say, but medical breakthroughs to significantly extend life and ease the ailments of getting older are closer than many people think. "The general public has no idea what's coming," said David Sinclair, a Harvard Medical School professor who has made headlines with research into ...

Charlie Rose engages in a round-table discussion with various scientists working on healthy life extension. Caloric restriction and resveratrol are discussed.

Crossposted from advancednano.blogspot.com Resveratrol helps protect against the diseases of obesity and at higher doses helps to double endurance in mice Dr. Sinclair dosed his mice daily with 22 milligrams of resveratrol for each kilogram of weight to protect them from the diseases of obesity. For an 80 kilogram man that would be 1.7 ...

From the New York Times, another angle on the calorie restriction mimetic resveratrol and sirtuin research: ''very large doses of resveratrol protected mice from gaining weight and from developing metabolic syndrome. Dr. Auwerx attributes this change in large part to the significantly increased number of mitochondria ... the treated mice were able ...