Life Extension by Anti-Aging Drugs: Hormetic Explanation?
- 1 Laboratory of Mathematical Modelling of Aging Processes Institute of Gerontology, Ukraine
Abstract
A number of chemicals including antioxidants, vitamins and hormones are widely advertised as anti-aging drugs (geroprotectors). It is usually believed that life-extending capacity of geroprotectors may be attributed to their specific anti-aging mechanisms, even without solid scientific evidence. The analysis of the survival data gathered by both anti-aging and hormetic interventions demonstrates that many essential similarities exist between them. The evidence that life-extending effects of anti-aging drugs may be due to hormetic-like response is discussed in this review.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.3844/ajptsp.2008.14.18
Copyright: © 2008 A.M. Vaiserman. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the
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Keywords
- Anti-aging
- geroprotectors
- hormesis
- longevity