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Bodybuilding supplement promotes healthy aging and extends life span, at least in mice – Science Magazine
Alpha-ketoglutarate could be safer than other potential anti-aging treatments
Female mice that ate alpha-ketoglutarate (left) next to control mice.
A. A. Shahmirzadi et. al., Cell Metabolism (2020) 10.1016
By Jocelyn KaiserSep. 1, 2020 , 11:00 AM
A dietary supplement bodybuilders use to bulk up may have a more sweeping health benefit: Staving off the ravages of old age. Mice given the substancealpha-ketoglutarate(AKG)were healthier as they aged, and females lived longer than mice not on the supplement.
Other compounds, like the antiaging drug rapamycin and the diabet…
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