Re: Article on longevity research

[Guest guest]

Hehe, your statement " overemphasis on the free radical theory of

aging " is kind of humorous! A good portion of the folks over on the

other CRSociety list are ardent followers of free radical science,

but I find it heartening that you maintain such an open mind about

things. I too am fairly suspicious about just how preeminent free

radicals are in the phenomenon of aging. If free radicals were the

only thing working against I suspect we would have cured aging by now!

crdude35768@...

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> http://www.reason.com/0208/fe.rb.forever.shtml

>

> From a libertarian web site (article itself is pretty much

apolitical

> except for pro-corporate slant).

>

> It provides a basic laymans intro to longevity research and covers

> just about all the bases with some acuracy. However, from what I

> know (a limited amount admitedly ) I believe it makes some errors

> such as an overemphasis on the free radical theory of aging. And

of

> course it repeats the old popular bias against caloric restriction

> (near starvation etc. etc.).