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Living Longer… Using Isotopes — and iFood!?!
There are a bunch of folks working on how to extend human life spans via various methods. As an undergrad, I’d heard of using isotopes to alter metabolism chemistries, but now there’s actually a company called Retrotrope that’s proposing to create isotopically-enriched food (iFood?). That name sounds like a joke Apple product — and maybe iFood is the reason why Steve Jobs has been losing weight recently? The topic of extending life, though, makes me wonder if blood doping using your own (younger?) blood would have any effect on ageing. It would seem to be an easy enough experiment to perform on other mammals to find out.
