Anti-ageing treatments: these two drug types are being investigated

By Richard Faragher, Professor of Biogerontology, University of Brighton

While more people may be living longer than ever before, this increase in life expectancy is accompanied by the development of age-related diseases – such as cancer or type 2 diabetes. This is why the a major new parliamentary report has been published in the UK, advocating greater investment in novel treatments that slow ageing, in a bid to bring people five more years of healthy, disease-free life.

The hope is that such treatments would either shorten the period of disease we…

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