New Pill With the Ability to Reverse Aging

Since the dawn of civilization people have been fascinated with the idea of immortality and have concocted infinite ways to reverse the process of aging. A new pharmaceutical company by the name Elysium Health believes that they have found a way to actually reverse the aging process in humans. 

The drug, Basis, "is a chemical precursor to nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide, or NAD" This compound is one that has a similar effect to a low calorie diet, which is proven to reverse aging in mice. The drug has been proven to have these effects on mice and worms but is nearly impossible to prove, in a reasonable time span, whether the drug will actually have the intended effect on people. This means that there is no guarantee that the product, a small blue pill taken twice daily, will even work. In order to get as many people taking the pill as quickly as possible, the company has chosen to label Basis as a over the counter nutritional supplement so as to bypass FDA testing an regulations. 

The field of NAD research is one of the most exciting facets of STEM research right now. If these pills actually work on people it could have the potential to revolutionize the way we live and die.