'I'd expected to see slowing down of the clock, but not a reversal,' geneticist Steve Horvath said. 'That felt kind of futuristic.'
Scientists believe it may be possible to reverse a person's biological age with a combination of drugs and growth hormones, based on evidence presented in the results of a small clinical study.
Even the scientists who worked on the study were surprised by the results. At the same time, some are urging caution as the results are still preliminary.."That felt kind of futuristic."Matthew Horwood/Getty "It may be that there is an effect," Wagner said."But the results are not rock solid because the study is very small and not well controlled."last week, the initial research tested the cocktail of common drugs on nine men between the ages of 51 and 65, all of whom were white. Initially, the study's primary objective was to observe the effectiveness and safety of using growth hormone to restore tissue in the thymus gland.
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