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Is this the immortality pill?

DR MICHAEL ELSTEIN is a Sydney-based anti-ageing physician and writer. He is the author of three books, including his latest, The Wellness Guide to Preventing the Diseases of Ageing. He has also designed the app The Diet Guide to Ageing Prevention.

Nicotinamide riboside ... has been shown to revitalise ageing mice.

In March 2017 in Los Angeles, movie stars, influential luminaries and pioneers in the field of longevity medicine assembled in the house of Norman Lear, an American TV writer and producer famous for such 1970s sitcoms as and , to commence the National Academy of Medicine’s Grand Challenge in Healthy Longevity. This will award $25 million to anyone who uncovers substantial insights into the prevention and reversal of ageing.

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