"My research results are not to serve those few rich people, but to increase the average life expectancy of all human beings - 100 years old." This is the attitude expressed by Professor Brian Kennedy in the field of biological anti-aging in Singapore, in an interview with the outside world. And with the discovery of the "AKG" molecule, perhaps the "Centennial Era" that Professor Kennedy longed for will become a reality in the near future.

Professor Kennedy said that the "AKG" molecule is an element that can improve bodily functions and slow down cell aging. It not only helps the body improve immunity and resistance, but also helps us resist the invasion of external diseases. Therefore, it may become one of the future scientific anti-aging options, and then when Professor Kennedy's team announced the effect of the "AKG" molecule to the outside world, it was widely questioned by the academic community.

"AKG" animal experiments questioned

At the beginning, the research team led by Professor Kennedy carefully screened dozens of anti-aging formulas that already existed in academia. Among dozens of formulas, the effect of "AKG" molecules is very eye-catching. In mouse experiments, researchers continued to supplement "AKG" molecules to old mice. After supplementing for a period of time, they found that the old mice were weak The index has been reduced by more than 50%, and the life cycle has been extended by anywhere from five to ten percent.

This also means that the discovery of the "AKG" molecule may open up a new possibility for human lifespan. However, although this substance exists widely in nature, it has not been widely used because it is very difficult to extract. Moreover, the representativeness of the mouse experiment conducted by Professor Kennedy's research team cannot be accepted by the academic community. The reason is that this effect, which can be achieved in mice, has been seen before, but is useless in humans.

To this end, on the basis of mouse experiments, Professor Kennedy then started human experiments. The research team selected 42 volunteers with an average age of 63, including 14 women and 28 men. In order to better compare the effect of different doses of "AKG" molecules, the 42 volunteers were supplemented with different doses of "AKG" molecules.

After a one-year scientific observation, it was found that regardless of the dose, the 42 experimental subjects showed different degrees of physical improvement. Within 4 to 8 months after continuous supplementation of the "AKG" molecule, the physiological age of the 42 experimental subjects There is a reversal over the age of 8. In the one-year test, supplementing the "AKG" molecule did not bring any discomfort to the person, which also proved the stability of the "AKG" molecule.

Intense competition in the field of scientific anti-aging

But even so, the scientificity of the "AKG" molecule has been questioned. The academic community believes that the experimental subjects selected for this experiment are too small to prove the representativeness of the molecule. Therefore, some people believe that the "AKG" molecule cannot compete with the "WLife"-like substances discovered by the Harvard laboratory in previous years until the current team of Professor Kennedy provides stronger evidence, and it still has a long way to go.

This "WLife" substance, which is widely recognized by the academic community, was discovered by Professor David of Harvard Biology in 2013. During the experiment, Professor David discovered a substance that can promote the repair of cells in the body. In subsequent experiments, It was found that such substances can reverse the function of muscle cells back to the level of the larval period, which is equivalent to reversing the physiological function of the seventies and eighties to the level of the twenty-thirties. It is precisely because of this discovery that Professor David, Buffett and others were selected by the journal Nature as one of the 100 people who influenced the world that year.

Immediately, many research institutions, including Qingbei, Tokyo University, and Mayo Lab, conducted in-depth analysis of "WLife" substances, and promoted the production of such substances, and became the new darling of high-net-worth circles in Europe and the United States. Even Buffett, Bezos and other rich people have also tried the technological achievements one after another. In the same year, “WLife” substances were promoted by domestic biotechnology companies headed by LightWeijian, and were transformed into China through platforms such as J&D.com and Tmall, which randomly attracted high-net-worth groups in first- and second-tier cities.

In recent years, various scientific anti-aging technologies have emerged one after another, such as the "somatic cell reprogramming technology" invested by Bezos at a cost of 20 billion, and the hyperbaric oxygen chamber technology promoted by Israeli science, all of which have achieved good results in related fields. However, the cost of it is also sky-high, and it can be hundreds of thousands or even millions. Therefore, some people joke that scientific anti-aging is a game for the rich. But Professor Kennedy doesn't think so.

He felt that the pursuit of a breakthrough in lifespan should not be the exclusive privilege of the rich, but should be the expectation of all, which is also the original intention of his commitment to the research and development of "AKG" molecules. Therefore, how to reduce the cost of related science and technology has become a new method for related research and development in the future. But this road still has a long way to go.

The materialization of each technology requires a lot of experimental preparation, and the manpower and material resources consumed are huge. Therefore, at present, we can only rely on the further development of science and the continuous injection of more capital. In the future, if more and more related technologies become finished products, it is believed that more people will benefit from it.