It sounds like I'm selling phoney stock certificates about a non-existent gold mine in Indonesia. Or convincing you to purchase a crocodile-infested swamp for a retirement home in Florida. For years researchers have studied what happens to the lifespan of rats and mice when fed certain diets. This doesn't mean that rodents were fed a malnutrition diet. But one fact of the experiment caught my eye.
Rats only live about two years.
But since monkeys live up to 40 years, that's a long time to wait for the results. Dr. Richard Weindruch at the University of Wisconsin is an eminent authority on animal aging. Free radicals are the waste products of metabolism. The theory is to get rid of as many free radicals as possible. The Affymetrix chip has helped to support the aging concept about free radicals.