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A fascinating new study delving into the complexities of longevity and health found that although life expectancy has soared over the years, it is offset by a higher sickness rate.

According to researchers, though preventive care, new treatment facilities, and vaccines' ability to arrest major diseases has resulted in a longer life span, people are actually spending more years of their life battling serious illnesses, disabilities and loss of function than they did a few decades ago.

Injecting specially treated repair stem cells in such muscles makes them twice as bigger and stronger as before, eventually lengthening the process of aging.

Discovering the underlying mechanism behind this transformation can pave the way for treating muscle wasting and muscular dystrophy in the elderly.

"This was a very exciting and unexpected result," said Professor Bradley Olwin, the lead author at the University of Colorado.

Researchers at the University of Milan discovered that a concoction of amino acids fed to mice increased their life expectancy by 12 percent or 95 days compared to their untreated counterparts.

Drug promises a healthy, active life
If translated into humans, that would mean the average person would live an extra nine and a half years (in India life expectancy of 73.2 years), and could expect to have a healthier old age.

Though the potion may not render a miraculous immortality, it can make the declining phases of life a long, active one.