Can we stop the ageing clock?

DR MICHAEL ELSTEIN is a Sydney-based anti-ageing physician and writer. He is the author of three books including his latest, The Wellness Guide to Preventing the Diseases of Ageing. He has also designed the app The Diet Guide to Ageing Prevention. The closest we’ve come to unveiling the mitochondrial holy grail is a nutrient called coenzyme Q10. In recent times there’s been an explosion of hypotheses and technologies that might make the elusive promise of eternal youthfulness an achievable reality. Scientists are currently falling over each other in their enthusiastic zeal to explain how ageing can be aborted and even reversed. There’s no shortage of strategies that promise to assuage our collective desire to remain forever young. Stem cell rejuvenation, injecting young blood into the aged, persistently eating less, intermittent fasting, drugs…

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