Tests begin on age-slowing drugs

explained-mysteries.com/images/newsitems/oldhand.jpg][/cap] Scientists have started testing on drugs that could one day be used to increase human life span, delay old age or even reverse it. But just how possible is it to do this, can we really turn back the clock or delay old age indefinately ? [i][b]"[/b]It may be the ultimate free lunch — how to reap all the advantages of a calorically restricted diet, including freedom from disease and an extended healthy life span, without eating one fewer calorie. Just take a drug that tricks the body into thinking it's on such a diet.[b]"[/b][/i] [img]http://www.unexplained-mysteries.com/arrow3.gif[/img] [b]View:[/b] [url="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/18/science/18aging.html?_r=1"]Full Article[/url] | [img]http://www.unexplained-mysteries.com/arrow3.gif[/img] [b]Source:[/b] [url="http://www.nytimes.com"]Ne