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Anti Aging Telomere Treatment Is Here

October 13, 2008 by GiGi · 6 Comments 

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I first brought up telomeres back in November in this post: Vitamin D3 and Aging. Basically, they are part of your DNA that are attached to the end of your chromosomes. As we age, they get shorter.  Once they get too short, the cells cannot divide and we die.

Now science has found an enzyme that actually reverses that process by keeping the telomere long. A company called Geron developed TA-65, a molecule that activates the enzyme. Read more

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