Vitamin Found To Halt Aging In Muscle Tissues And Increase Lifespan

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Aging is still an inevitable fact of life, but maybe not for much longer. oneinchpunch/Shutterstock

While it may be a little premature to declare the search for the elixir of youth over, a remarkable milestone in the quest to abolish death and aging may have just been reached. According to a new study in the journal Science, a vitamin called nicotinamide riboside (NR) has the capacity to stimulate the regeneration of lost muscle tissue in elderly mice, while also increasing their lifespan.