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From: "Michael C Price" <>
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Subject: Current antiaging work and cryonics
Date: Tue, 13 Sep 2005 09:07:14 +0100

Thomas Donaldson wrote 

> However, research into aging hasn't yet worked out a cure for aging.
> They've just got a way to hold it off for a while. An outright cure 
> would cause the mortality curve of those getting it to take an
> exponential shape: exp(-x), while every treatment so far known begins
> like an exponential curve, just like those of an untreated person, 
> but then a bit later than normal (and even 50% later than normal)
> it falls off with the same kind of mortality curve we see today in 
> anyone given current standard medical treatments.

This is not true.  Extra selenium, for example, has extended maximum
lifespan in rodents more than the mean LS; the survival curve 
was flattened and the mortality rate for the older animals was dramatically
reduced -- even more so than the impressive reductions found for less
long lived.  For more details see my earlier post:
http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/dsp.cgi?msg=26500

Cheers,
Michael C Price

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