Ellis: "Personally I feel this post belongs in NQS"
This thread is one of those that are particularly susceptible to NQS content, so we may have to tolerate a little fantasy and metaphysics. Longevity, however, is now being widely researched, so it ought to be a worthy addition to the General Science Forum.
These two related articles are the most interesting I've read on the subject:
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,24279207-30417,00.html
"They discovered that most of the long-lived men - those who eventually reached an average age of 98 years - had the same version of the FOXO3A gene.
What's more, the men with the long-lived version of the gene also had a lower prevalence of cancer and cardiovascular disease, high physical and intellectual abilities and reported better over-all health than those without the variation."
http://ouroboros.wordpress.com/2008/09/15/foxo3a-allele-linked-to-longevity/"The authors state that this finding is especially exciting because the FOXO family of proteins are closely related to the C. elegans protein, DAF-16, which has been shown to protect cells from oxidative stress, which could be a 'plausible mechanism of action for modification of human aging.'"
