Full disclosure time: When it comes to things scientific, we struggle. We're interested, but not competent. Nonetheless, we found this article at Lew Rockewell highly interesting. The gist seems to be: telomerase inhibitors could take care of the Big C, but the government is blocking its development. We can't speak to either, but we thought it worth posting the link.
For us, we'll start drinking a lot of green tea (a telomerase inhihitor, or something like that).
Link. Excerpt:
If telomerase inhibitors were a new kind of computer chip, they would have been on every Wal-Mart pharmacy shelf and selling for ten dollars a bottle by now. However, in the US it has been decided that only computers (sorry: "Silicon-Americans") may benefit from the free market. Technologies that enhance mere humans, like medicine, education, communication, transportation, etc. are kept firmly within the control of guilds and government. So before telomerase inhibitors get down to the level of your doctor, they will have to run the 19-year, $897 million regulatory gauntlet while it is decided which large pharmaceutical company will be granted a patent for something which probably came out of some pathetic starving Lebanese grad student's work.
