Your dog will have an anti-aging drug before you do

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Before we have an anti-aging drug for humans, were likely to have one for dogs..

Multiple clinical trials are currently underway to test potential anti-aging compounds on dogs, since our best friends have become a popular animal model for human aging..

Read now. . Recently, Harvard University biologist David Sinclair started marketing life-extension supplements for dogs, touting unpublished clinical trial data that others in the field found completely unconvincing..

Whether anti-aging supplements for dogs work or not, theres likely to be demand, said Arthur Caplan, a professor of ethics at New York University..

Some researchers who study aging fear that the spectacle of a high-level professor hawking dog longevity supplements will further tarnish the reputation of a field already dragged down by self-proclaimed experts pushing fad diets and unproven anti-aging treatments for people. ..

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