Chinese researchers reversed aging in primates. Yes, it's real.

This will sounds too incredible to be true, yet I spent the past 2 days fact-checking this and it checks out: for the first time ever, researchers from the Chinese Academy of Sciences (now ranked as the world’s top research institution) have managed to systematically reverse aging in primates, using engineered human stem cells.

The age reversal is across the board: it affected 10 organ systems, 61 tissue types, the brain, the bones, teeth, reproductive system, all the way down to cells and neurons.

This is all the more groundbreaking because the primates they achieved this on - crab-eating macaques (cynomolgus macaques) - share many physiological similarities with humans, and the therapy uses human cells, which means this could be adapted for humans relatively quickly. The 44-week experiment also showed zero adverse effects- no tumors, no immune rejection, no fever, no weight loss.

This is undoubtedly the strongest evidence ever produced that biological aging can be reversed across the board, and the closest we’ve ever come to a clinically translatable anti-aging therapy.

Here are all the details on what the researchers did (full peer-reviewed study here) and why it’s so groundbreaking.