60 Minutes recently ran a story on Reversatrol, the latest snake oil promising perpetual youth. (if you act now you will receive cancer inhibitors as well.) Pharmaceuticals are eagerly experimenting with this natural substance hoping to put life-everlasting into a pill. So far the scientists have only been able to extend life in yeast, but, hey, that’s a start. Reversatrol is currently available in red wine, and the same supposed therapeutic advantage can be obtained now if you drink hundreds of gallons a day. Sounds like a plan to me, but then, what’s the point of living forever falling-down drunk?
When I was a lad the tho....