I spent today going through some old magazines I hadn't had a chance to read yet. TIME was one of them
and this was from the February 22, 2010 issue, p. 52.
If I'm reading this correctly, seems like I will probably live longer than those ladies who don't like CIM.
Is this what this article is basically saying?
"SLOWING AGING...WITH SEMEN"
Hold your laughter. It's not the setup for a joke.
Austrian researchers believe that a compound in human semen can have a dramatic impact on life span.
Biochemists Frank Madeo and Tobias Eisenberg at the University of Graz led
a team to test the effects of a substance known as spermidine.
In yeast, spermidine was shown to increase like span by as much as a factor
of four; in fruit flies, up to 30%; and in worms, up to 15%.
When spermidine was applied to human immune cells, they too lived longer,
with three times as many surviving after 12 days as in a comparison batch.
Spermidine works, the researchers show, by promoting the cellular process of
autophagy--a kind of self cleaning that, Eisenberg says, "removes cellular
garbage such as clumped proteins or damaged or defective cellular organelles."
Those things might otherwise harm the body.