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Apr 14, 2011

The Aging Process — Myths and Realities

from McGill Podcasts » Freaky Fridays Hosted by Cody Rei-Anderson

What is aging? Recent animal studies have shown that clioquinol — an 80-year-old drug once used to treat diarrhea and other gastrointestinal disorders — can reverse the progression of Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, and Huntington’s diseases. According to Dr. Siegfried Hekimi, clioquinol acts irectly on a protein called CLK-1, often informally called “clock-1,” and might slow down [...]

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