It's Friday, October 26th, 2018, and you're listening to Up to Date. I'm And Dreyas Gontas.

And I'm Kishore Hari. Anything catch your eye in the news this week? Yeah, you know how I'm always

interested in living longer? Yeah, I think all of us are interested in that. I don't know.

You know, there are some people that you talk to that are kind of like, I'm okay with like, you know, there's some people that you talk to that are kind of like, I'm okay with like, you know,

kicking the bucket in my 80s or something like that, especially if like your body is going to continue to degenerate. Yeah, quality of life is an important component of this. Yeah, except that I also

feel like, unless you're like really suffering, I think that I want to live to 150, even if my body

starts to fail slowly.

But, you know, I respect other people's opinions on that matter.

But recently, there's some good news for all of us because a team of researchers from the Yale version of college in Singapore, so it's Yale and U.S. college, discovered a combination of pharmaceutical

drugs that are already out on the market that not only increases the healthy lifespan

of sea elegance, the worm often used to study longevity and human aging, but also

kind of makes them live healthier lives for the lives

that they do live. Wait, wait, they do live? Well, yeah, sorry, I guess that was a really weird

way of putting it. But essentially, what this group did is they doubled the lifespan of sea

elegans. And not only that, but the worms that did live twice as long as the worms that didn't,

that didn't have this drug cocktail, were also healthier throughout that lifespan.

So it wasn't like, okay, they started to degenerate around the same time,

but they just kind of lived longer.

It looks like in this particular study,

the worms actually were healthier all the way through to the end. And doubling a lifespan,

that's kind of a big deal. I mean, a lot of these studies might increase lifespan, you know,

by a little bit, but to double it really is kind of a game changer. And doubling of the lifespan,

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