Can ageing be reversed?


TO GO WITH AFP STORY BY TOM HANCOCK - (FILES) - Photo taken on January 22, 2013 shows the 103 year old woman, Xu Yuhe in Chengmai, China's southern Hainan province. Many locals live in unheated homes of a few dollars a day, the elderly suffered through wars and famines. Nevertheless, they have one of the highest life expectancies in the world: more than 200 of the 560,000 inhabitants have been living more than 100 years - this is one of the highest rates in the world. At least three are even over 110 years old - which give it less than 400 people worldwide. Since the accompanying story moved, Xu Yuhe has turned 104. AFP PHOTO / WANG ZHAO

Many studies have shown that cell therapy, hormones, nutritional supplements, diet modification and exercise can indeed reverse ageing.

IN the last two decades or so, the medical world has been abuzz with anti-ageing or rejuvenation therapies. The aesthetic/beauty market caught up, and peddled anything that held promise.

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