The Youth Pill: Scientists at the Brink of an Anti-Aging Revolution

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Scientists have firmly established that the rate of aging is malleable and now a well-founded quest for drugs that brake aging is rapidly unfolding. While this drugs won't confer immortality they do promise to usher in a new era of preventive medicine, one in which novel medicines arrive that can delay or avert just about everything that goes wrong with us as we age: dementia, cancer, osteoporosis, and, yes, jowls too, in the same way that medicines that lower blood pressure and cholesterol fend off heart disease today. Stipp explores the advances of science.

For more than 30 years, David Stipp has written about various topics within the fields of science, medicine, and biotech for such publications as Fortune and The Wall Street Journal. He has extensively researched the science of aging, as well as the Pentagon's concern regarding climate change, childhood lead poisoning, and the effect of birth order on personality. He is the author of The Youth Pill: Scientists at the Brink of an Anti-Aging Revolution.

"David Stipp is the ideal ambassador to the sometimes surreal landscape of life extension. How is it possible to understand so much, to explain so clearly, to tell a story so engagingly and so well? I hope he keeps writing books until he's 300 years old. (And guess what? It's not entirely out of the question!)"-MARY ROACH, bestselling author of Stiff, Spook, and Bonk "Well-researched, excellent book on the progress of the biology of aging." -Robert N. Butler, founding director, National Institute on Aging