{"id":7628,"date":"2026-09-11T06:28:32","date_gmt":"2026-09-11T00:58:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/higoodhealth.com\/india\/?p=7628"},"modified":"2026-09-18T15:14:59","modified_gmt":"2026-09-18T09:44:59","slug":"reverse-ageing-science-india","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/higoodhealth.com\/india\/reverse-ageing-science-india\/","title":{"rendered":"How Close Are We to Reversing Ageing in Humans? | Part 1"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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About this series.<\/strong> Reverse Ageing<\/em> is a ten-part series on what ageing science can do today, what it cannot do yet, and what longer, healthier lives would mean for work, money and family. This is Part 1: the science itself \u2014 what ageing is, and how much of it can be reversed.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

A child born in India in 1950 could expect to live to about 41. A child born here today can expect about 72.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That is the single biggest health achievement in this country’s history, and it had almost nothing to do with slowing down old age. The years were won at the start of life, not the end of it, through vaccines, antibiotics, clean water and far fewer infants dying.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The harder question is the one scientists are working on now. Can we add years to the other end, and can anyone actually reverse ageing rather than simply survive longer with it?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At a glance<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Ageing is not one thing wearing out. It is a set of biological changes that can be measured, and researchers currently describe twelve of them. They interact, which is why nothing here has a single fix.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nothing available today can reverse ageing in a human being. Some ageing markers have been reversed in mice, most notably in a 2020 Nature study where old mice recovered lost vision. Nothing comparable has been shown in people.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This matters more in India than in most places. We added over thirty years of lifespan without adding the same amount of healthy life, which is why so many Indian 60-year-olds are already managing diabetes or heart disease.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The things that reliably slow biological ageing today are dull, cheap and available now: sleep, walking, not smoking, and keeping blood sugar and blood pressure in range. Anything sold to you as an anti-ageing therapy is ahead of its evidence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If ageing is so harmful, why didn’t evolution prevent it?<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Natural selection strongly favours whatever helps you survive and reproduce early in life. That is when your genes get passed on.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After that, its grip weakens. Damage accumulates in cells because nothing is selecting hard against it. Ageing is not a failure of evolution. It is a consequence of what evolution was optimising for, and we were never the priority after our forties.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So are humans about to stop ageing?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

No.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But something did change over the last twenty years. Researchers stopped treating ageing as a fixed backdrop and started treating it as a process with parts that can be named, measured and possibly altered.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Why this question matters more in India than almost anywhere<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

India is ageing faster than it is getting healthy, and the numbers are not gradual.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The UNFPA’s 2023 India Ageing Report projects that people over 60 will make up more than 20% of the population by 2050, roughly double today’s share. By 2046 there will be more Indians over 60 than under 15. The fastest-growing group of all is the over-80s, projected to rise about 279% between 2022 and 2050.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Set that beside the ICMR-INDIAB survey published in The Lancet Diabetes and Endocrinology in 2023, which found 101 million Indians living with diabetes, about 11.4% of adults, and a far larger group with prediabetes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Indians also tend to develop diabetes and heart disease younger, and at lower body weights, than Europeans do. A slim 45-year-old here can be metabolically older than a heavier 55-year-old in London.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Put those three facts together and the picture is uncomfortable. We are about to have a very large population of older people who started accumulating chronic disease early. If biological ageing can be slowed, India has more to gain from it than most countries, because we are currently losing more healthy years than most countries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What if ageing itself could be treated? Is ageing a disease?<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

For most of history ageing was something you accepted rather than something medicine aimed at. That is changing. The argument now is that if you target the biology driving ageing, you might delay several diseases at once, instead of treating each one after it has arrived.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ageing is not officially classified as a disease. But it is the single largest risk factor for most of what shortens life here: heart disease, stroke, diabetes complications, dementia and several cancers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It sounds radical, but nature has been doing regeneration for millions of years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The axolotl, a small Mexican salamander, regrows an entire limb, parts of its heart, its spinal cord, even sections of its brain.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Greenland sharks live close to 400 years, the longest-lived vertebrates known. Naked mole rats are rodents that almost never get cancer and shrug off changes we treat as inevitable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Humans have none of that. We are not starting from nothing either.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The liver is the standing example. Remove part of it and it grows back, which is the whole basis of living-donor liver transplantation. The machinery for repair is already in us. The open question is whether it can be pointed at ageing rather than at injury.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Ageing is more than counting birthdays<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Ask someone their age and you get a number. Thirty-two. Fifty-eight. Seventy-four.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That is chronological age. It counts birthdays and nothing else. Biological age is how old the body is actually behaving.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Think of two 60-year-olds in the same colony.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One walks every morning, has normal blood pressure, no diabetes, and still runs his own errands.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The other has had diabetes for fifteen years, takes four tablets a day, is breathless on the stairs, and has largely stopped going out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On paper they are the same age. Biologically they are not, and the distance between them is what this article is about.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Your Aadhaar card may say 50 while your biology looks forty, or sixty.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That one idea changed ageing research. Instead of a countdown you cannot argue with, ageing became a set of processes that can be measured and possibly influenced.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It does not mean ageing has been solved. It means it has become a scientific problem instead of a fact of life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What actually happens inside the body as we age?<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Most people picture wrinkles, grey hair and stiff knees. Those are the visible signs, and they arrive late.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The real story starts much deeper, in trillions of cells working round the clock to keep you alive.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The twelve hallmarks of ageing<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Researchers group the process into what they call the hallmarks of ageing, a set of connected biological changes that show up across different organs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When you are young the repair system is excellent. Cells divide, DNA gets mended, worn-out proteins get recycled.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Over time that system gets slower and sloppier. Small errors accumulate. Individually they are nothing. Together they change how the body works.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

DNA damage is one of the earliest. Your DNA is hit every day by sunlight, pollution, infection and ordinary metabolism. Cells have good repair systems for this, but like a mechanic keeping an old car running, they get less effective with time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then there are mitochondria, the structures that generate the energy every organ runs on. As they lose efficiency, energy production falls and harmful by-products called reactive oxygen species rise.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Cellular senescence is another. These are the cells nicknamed zombie cells.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Instead of dying when their useful life is over, they hang around and release inflammatory chemicals that damage healthy neighbours. Their build-up is thought to feed many age-related diseases.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ageing also hits stem cells, the body’s repair crew. When you are young they replace damaged tissue quickly. With age their numbers and activity drop, and organs recover from injury more slowly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Finally there is inflammaging, the chronic low-grade inflammation that builds quietly over decades. It is not the useful inflammation that fights an infection. It is persistent, and it is linked to heart disease, diabetes, Alzheimer’s, arthritis and much else that becomes common with age.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

None of this happens in sequence. These processes reinforce each other, and together they make the body steadily more vulnerable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For decades medicine treated the diseases at the end of that chain. The question now is whether you can intervene much earlier.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Can old cells become young again?<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The discovery that changed the conversation came from an unexpected direction.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2006 the Japanese scientist Shinya Yamanaka showed that putting four genes into an adult cell, Oct4, Sox2, Klf4 and c-Myc, could reset it to a stem-cell-like state. It won him the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine six years later.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Those four are now called the Yamanaka factors, and what they proved is that cellular ageing is not a one-way street.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There was a catch. Reprogramming a mature cell all the way back erases its identity. A skin cell stops behaving like skin. A liver cell stops behaving like liver. That is a serious cancer risk, not a theoretical one.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So the question became a better one.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What if you only reset part of the way?<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Instead of taking a cell back to the beginning, researchers began testing partial reprogramming, nudging old cells towards a younger state while letting them keep their job.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Think of restoring an old painting. You take off decades of grime. You do not repaint the picture.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That idea is now one of the most active areas in the field.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The animal experiments that changed the field<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The strongest evidence for age reversal has not come from humans. It has come from mice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Two studies did most of the work. In 2016, Ocampo and colleagues reported in Cell that partial reprogramming reduced several hallmarks of ageing in mice. In 2020, Lu and colleagues reported in Nature that old mice regained vision that had been lost with age.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Other experiments have shown improvements in muscle function, metabolism and tissue repair, and several interventions aimed at ageing pathways have extended lifespan in laboratory animals, not by making them immortal but by keeping them healthy for longer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These results genuinely changed the field. They also come with a warning that gets left out of the headlines.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A mouse is not a human.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mice live a couple of years, have different immune systems, and respond to drugs in ways we do not. Plenty of therapies that look spectacular in mice fail in people, because human biology is more complicated and human trials are longer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So researchers are excited and cautious at the same time. The evidence is real. The leap from a mouse to a safe human therapy is still one of the hardest problems in medicine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Has anyone managed to reverse ageing in a human yet?<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

This is where headlines run ahead of the science.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If you have seen a story claiming scientists have reversed ageing or found the fountain of youth, it is worth reading past the headline.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nobody has shown that ageing can be reversed in humans. What has been shown is that certain biological markers of ageing can shift under specific conditions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The main tool here is the epigenetic clock. These tests read chemical tags on DNA, called DNA methylation, and estimate a biological age from the pattern. Small studies involving diet, exercise and stress management have reported modest improvements in that number.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here is the distinction that matters. A younger number on an epigenetic clock does not mean a person will live longer or avoid disease. Only large, long-term trials can answer that, and they have not been done.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Early human safety studies of experimental rejuvenation treatments have begun. They are designed to test whether something is safe, not to prove it works.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In science, promising is not the same as proven, and the gap between those two words is where most of the money is currently being made.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Who is actually doing this work, and what it means for us<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Longevity science has become one of the fastest-growing areas of biomedical research, and almost none of it is happening here.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Altos Labs, Calico, which is backed by Google, and Retro Biosciences are spending very large sums on the basic biology. Academic labs across the world are working on senolytic drugs, stem cells, reprogramming and gene editing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There is no agreed roadmap. Some researchers think clearing senescent cells will matter most. Others are working on mitochondria, stem cell function, or drugs that hit several ageing pathways at once.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For an Indian reader that shapes the realistic expectation. We are likely to be consumers of these therapies rather than developers of them, which means they will arrive here late, priced in dollars, and probably first through private hospitals in the metros.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That is worth saying plainly, because the gap between when a therapy exists and when it is affordable here is usually measured in years, and sometimes in decades.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Why reverse ageing is still so hard<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

If old cells can already be made to behave more like young ones, why is none of this in a hospital?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Because biology rarely does simple.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ageing is not one faulty gene or one worn-out organ. It is dozens of connected processes running over decades. Push one pathway and you move another, sometimes in the wrong direction.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Cancer is the biggest single worry. Cells are supposed to stop dividing when they are damaged. Make them younger without very careful control and you may also make them divide when they should not.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then there is time. Most chronic disease takes decades to appear, so proving that an anti-ageing therapy works may need people followed for a very long time. That makes this field slower than almost any other part of medicine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And there are questions medicine cannot answer on its own. Should ageing be classified as a disease? Who gets these treatments first? In a country where a large share of health spending still comes straight out of a family’s pocket, who can afford it is not an abstract worry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What is being sold in India right now, and what to avoid<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

This is the part most articles on this subject leave out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There is already a market here selling anti-ageing treatments, and much of it is running well ahead of the evidence. Clinics offer stem-cell injections for joints, hair, skin and general rejuvenation. IV wellness drips are sold as cellular repair. Supplement brands borrow the vocabulary of longevity research without any of its caution.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

India’s own rules are clearer than the marketing suggests. The ICMR’s National Guidelines for Stem Cell Research treat stem-cell use outside established blood-related conditions as investigational, to be done inside approved research, not sold as a service. The guidelines exist precisely because unproven stem-cell practice had become common enough to need curbing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So the practical test before you spend anything: ask what condition the treatment is approved for, ask to see the trial it is based on, and be suspicious of any clinic that answers with testimonials.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nothing on sale today has been shown to reverse human ageing. If it had, it would not be advertised on a hoarding.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What could the next ten to twenty years look like?<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Nobody can predict this precisely, but the direction is reasonably clear.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The first generation of therapies is more likely to slow biological ageing and reduce disease risk than to reverse anything. Medicines that clear senescent cells, support mitochondria or protect stem cell function are the realistic candidates. AI is speeding up the search for those molecules, and better biomarkers may let treatment be targeted rather than general.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

No single therapy will do everything. Heart health depends on blood pressure, cholesterol, activity and diet together, and healthy ageing will almost certainly work the same way.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It will arrive gradually, and unevenly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What you can actually do today<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The most useful finding in longevity science is also the least exciting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

You do not have to wait. The interventions with the strongest evidence are already available, and most of them are free.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Walking every day does more for muscle, brain and metabolism than anything currently for sale. Sleep is when cellular repair happens. A diet built on dal, vegetables, fruit and whole grains, with less refined flour, sugar and fried food, lowers chronic inflammation. Company, work and purpose matter measurably, which is why retirement is not a small health event.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Two things are worth doing earlier here than the international advice suggests, because metabolic disease starts earlier here.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Get blood sugar, blood pressure and a lipid profile checked from your thirties rather than your fifties. Any accredited lab will do all three cheaply and without a referral. And take a rising fasting sugar seriously the first time it shows up, not the third.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Biological age tests are available privately and are interesting rather than useful. Their role in ordinary medical care is still being worked out, and a number from one of them changes nothing about what you should be doing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The science is genuinely exciting. Your daily habits are still the strongest evidence-based anti-ageing tool you have.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Reverse Ageing Series<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Ten articles on what longer, healthier lives would actually change.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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  1. How Close Are We to Reversing Ageing in Humans?<\/strong> \u2014 the biology of ageing, and what has actually been reversed (you are here)<\/em><\/li>\n\n\n\n
  2. Will We Really Live to 100+ and Stay Young While Doing It?<\/a> \u2014 lifespan, healthspan and what the evidence supports<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  3. If Ageing Slows Down, Will Retirement Even Exist?<\/a> \u2014 work, pensions and the hundred-year life<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  4. Will Longer Lives Take Away Jobs from the Younger Generation?<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  5. If Parents Stay Healthy Till 90, Will Children Feel Less Responsibility?<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  6. Will We Have Two or Three Careers in One Lifetime?<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  7. Can Science Really Make 80 the New 40?<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  8. Who Will Benefit \u2014 Everyone, or Only the Wealthy?<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  9. The Longevity Economy<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  10. The Future of Being Human<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n

    Key takeaways<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

    Nothing available today can reverse ageing in a human being, and anything sold as reverse ageing is ahead of its evidence. Partial cellular reprogramming has reversed some ageing markers in mice, but nothing equivalent has been shown in people, and a mouse result is not a human result.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    India has a specific reason to care. We are ageing quickly, the over-60s will be more than a fifth of the country by 2050, and a great many of us start accumulating chronic disease decades before that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    What works today is unglamorous and available now: daily movement, real sleep, a diet that is not built on refined flour and sugar, no tobacco, and keeping blood sugar and blood pressure in range from your thirties rather than your fifties.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Before paying for any anti-ageing treatment in India, ask what it is approved for and what trial it rests on. Stem-cell therapy outside established blood conditions is investigational under ICMR’s own guidelines, whatever the clinic says.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Frequently asked questions<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n
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    1. Can we reverse ageing, really?<\/strong><\/h4>\n
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    Not in humans. Researchers have reversed certain ageing-related changes in cells and in mice, but no safe, effective age reversal has been demonstrated in people.<\/p>\n\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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    2. What is biological age, and how is it different from my actual age?<\/strong><\/h4>\n
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    Chronological age counts your birthdays. Biological age is an estimate of how well your cells and organs are actually working, and it can be higher or lower than the number on your Aadhaar card.<\/p>\n\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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    3. Are the biological age tests sold in India worth doing?<\/strong><\/h4>\n
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    They are interesting rather than useful. Their place in routine medical care is still being established, and the result will not change what you should be doing about sleep, movement, diet, blood sugar and blood pressure.<\/p>\n\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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    4. What are the Yamanaka factors?<\/strong><\/h4>\n
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    Four genes, identified by Shinya Yamanaka in 2006, that can reset a mature cell to a stem-cell-like state in the laboratory. The discovery won the Nobel Prize in 2012 and is the basis of reprogramming research.<\/p>\n\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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    5. What are senolytics?<\/strong><\/h4>\n
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    Experimental drugs designed to clear senescent cells, the so-called zombie cells that stop dividing but stay put and release inflammatory chemicals. They are in trials and are not an approved treatment.<\/p>\n\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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    6. Is stem cell therapy for anti-ageing legal in India?<\/strong><\/h4>\n
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    Stem-cell use outside established blood-related conditions is treated as investigational under the ICMR’s National Guidelines for Stem Cell Research, meaning it belongs inside approved research rather than being sold as a rejuvenation service. Ask any clinic what approval it is working under.<\/p>\n\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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    7. Will there be an anti-ageing treatment in my lifetime?<\/strong><\/h4>\n
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    Possibly something that slows biological ageing, rather than reverses it. No approved treatment for ageing itself exists anywhere today, and anything that does arrive will take time to reach India at a price most people can pay.<\/p>\n\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

    References<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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    1. Lopez-Otin C, Blasco MA, Partridge L, Serrano M, Kroemer G. Hallmarks of Ageing: An Expanding Universe. Cell. 2023.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    2. Yamanaka S. Nobel Prize Lecture: Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells. 2012.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    3. Ocampo A, et al. In Vivo Amelioration of Age-Associated Hallmarks by Partial Reprogramming. Cell. 2016.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    4. Lu Y, et al. Reprogramming to Recover Youthful Epigenetic Information and Restore Vision. Nature. 2020.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    5. Horvath S. DNA Methylation Age of Human Tissues and Cell Types. Genome Biology. 2013.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    6. Anjana RM, et al. Metabolic Non-Communicable Disease Health Report of India: the ICMR-INDIAB National Cross-Sectional Study. The Lancet Diabetes and Endocrinology. 2023.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    7. United Nations Population Fund. India Ageing Report 2023.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    8. United Nations, Department of Economic and Social Affairs. World Population Prospects 2024.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    9. Indian Council of Medical Research and Department of Biotechnology. National Guidelines for Stem Cell Research. 2017.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    10. World Health Organization. Decade of Healthy Ageing 2021-2030.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n

      Disclaimer<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

      This article is for general information and does not replace medical advice. Decisions about tests, treatment or any therapy marketed for ageing should be made with a qualified doctor who knows your medical history.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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