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Comment author: advancedatheist 04 February 2015 07:02:46PM *  2 points [-]

MIT"s Leonard Guarente has gone to market with:

The Anti-Aging Pill Facing a long wait for evidence, a longevity researcher takes an unusual path to market.

http://www.technologyreview.com/news/534636/the-anti-aging-pill/

Guarente's website: http://www.elysiumhealth.com/

At least Guarente understands that it takes a baseline of many decades to see if these experiments make a difference. He doesn't go for this "immortality in 30 years" nonsense that plagues folk transhumanism.

Dr. Bruce Ames did something like this several years ago to promote the use of the combination of acetyl-l-carnitine and alpha lipoic acid as an experiment to decelerate aging in human mitochondria:

http://www.juvenon.com/