Engineering News Blog

Engineering News

Latest news of interest to engineers. Sourced from GlobalSpec's Engineering News

Previous in Blog: Water modelling   Next in Blog: Segways as Medgadgets
Close
Close
Close
2 comments
Rate Comments: Nested

Herbal Extract Found to Increase Lifespan

Posted December 05, 2007 11:53 AM

From PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news:

The herbal extract of a yellow-flowered mountain plant indigenous to the Arctic regions of Europe and Asia increased the lifespan of fruit fly populations, according to a University of California, Irvine study. Flies that ate a diet rich with Rhodiola rosea, an herbal supplement long used for its purported stress-relief effects, lived on an average of 10 percent longer than fly groups that didn't eat the herb. Study results appear in the online version of Rejuvenation Research.

Read the whole article

Reply

Interested in this topic? By joining CR4 you can "subscribe" to
this discussion and receive notification when new comments are added.
Commentator
United States - Member - New Member

Join Date: Nov 2007
Location: Near Boston, MA USA
Posts: 71
Good Answers: 1
#1

Re: Herbal Extract Found to Increase Lifespan

12/06/2007 10:59 AM

I understand the value of testing a "longevity" remedy on an organism with such a short lifespan, but I'd be curious to see more long term studies of animals closer to the human species. Other than Jeff Goldblum, I don't think too many people have all that much in common with fruit flies...then again, I'm not a biologist.

__________________
"That's just my opinion, I could be completely wrong."--Dennis Miller
Reply
Guru
United States - US - Statue of Liberty - New Member Hobbies - Fishing - New Member

Join Date: Nov 2007
Location: Gone to Alabama with my banjo on my knee...
Posts: 5595
Good Answers: 20
#2

Re: Herbal Extract Found to Increase Lifespan

12/06/2007 5:18 PM

My inner fruit fly is fascinated. Fruit flies live, what, a week maybe? And gained a whopping 10% - less than half a day, right? To me, this simply means that Rhodiola rosea just jumped to the front of the line on the soon-to-be-extinct list. Not that this is really likely to affect human biology, even if accurate and reproducible. But I know how people get...

__________________
Veni, vidi, video - I came, I saw, I got it on film.
Reply
Reply to Blog Entry 2 comments

Previous in Blog: Water modelling   Next in Blog: Segways as Medgadgets

Advertisement