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I had a visit yesterday, and the doctor followed me down the hall when I was leaving. Weird. We'd been talking about Metformin as part of a life extension program, and Laz Parrish at BioViva.

https://www.discovermagazine.com › health › liz-parrish-is-patient-zero-in-her-own-anti-aging-experiment
Liz Parrish Is Patient Zero in Her Own Anti-Aging Experiment
(Credit: BioViva) Elizabeth (Liz) Parrish is the CEO of BioViva, a biotechnology company that focuses on developing gene therapies, and other regenerative therapies, to intervene with human aging. Last September, Parrish added an interesting line to her job description: patient zero for two anti-aging therapies that the company is researching.

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Extending Health Spans By Extending Telomeres: Profile Of Liz Parrish
21 Oct 2022 Liz Parrish, founder and CEO of BioViva Liz Parrish Patient zero Liz Parrish was nervous. She was on a plane to Colombia, where she would undergo an untested gene therapy. She and her...

Originally Posted by forbes.com

Before the treatment, the biomarkers used by Parrish indicated that her biological age was 66, a full 22 years more than her chronological age. (Your biological age describes the condition of your body relative to your peers; your chronological age is simply the number of journeys you have made around the sun). After the treatment, her reported biological age fell to match her actual age.

Parrish repeated the treatment in 2020, and she reports that since 2015, her biological age has declined by an average of five years every year. It dropped sharply again after the second treatment, and is now, remarkably, below 25.