The Mother of All Clinical Trials, Part II

Part II: Why We Should Trust the Methylation Clocks to Measure Aging Last week, I proposed that methylation age could be used to measure the benefits of putative anti-aging interventions.  This procedure has the potential to slash the cost and the duration of testing. The reason is that we don’t have to wait for a … Read more

The Mother of All Clinical Trials, Part I

Part I: An Incipient Revolution in Epidemiology There are a great number of promising interventions that might have anti-aging benefits, singly and in combination.  There is a testing bottleneck, which means that we don’t know what works. By way of contrast, there is a well-documented catalog of life extension interventions in lab worms, but for … Read more