Originally Posted by
Gigabitch 
Really? I take it so I don't catch cold. I didn't know I could avoid catching
old as well!
Astragalus (one of them, there are many) affects telomerase. Its thought to be one of the major mechanisms for how a cell 'counts' how old it is (ie. how many times its divided)
I did a little project on telomerase a few years ago...
Check this out:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geron_Corp..