By Donna Bowater / Source: Daily Express
A pill to help people live to 100 free from debilitating health problems is set to "revolutionise" ageing, experts said yesterday.
The breakthrough has come after scientists identified three “super-genes”.
People born with the genes are 20 times more likely to reach a century – and 80 per cent less likely to develop the senility disease Alzheimer’s.
Even being overweight or a heavy smoker does not stop a third of those with the genes living to 100.
Now US researchers are working to produce a drug that can mimic the genetic benefits and hope it will be ready for testing within three years.
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