Want to last longer in bed? There's a pill for that. Longer hair? That's covered, too. There are even pills that help your muscles grow. Now, scientists think they've stumbled across a bacteria on Easter Island that will allow you to add a decade or more onto your life — you know, so you can enjoy your wrestling physique and long tresses.
Nobody's really sure, at this point, exactly how rapamycin (an immunosuppressant) does what it does. The suspicion is that it may take advantage of the same biochemical pathways as calorie restriction, but what's important is that the mechanism that Rapamycin uses to function is the same for mice, fruit flies, nematode worms, and yeast, suggesting that it's a common enough thing that it's probably good to go in us humans, too.
The strange thing is that one of the side effects is that as an "immune suppressant" Rapamycin increases your risk fungal infections and pneumonia. Pneumonia kills, dude! It sounds like a pill that gives you AIDS and claims to make your life longer. We'll pass.
[Source: Dvice]
