Magic mushrooms rewind aging in mice—could they do the same for humans?

As revenues from the anti-aging market — riddled with hope and thousands of supplements– surged past $500 million last year, Emory University researchers identified a compound that actively delays aging in cells and organisms.

A newly published study in Nature Partner Journals’ Aging demonstrates that psilocin, a byproduct of consuming psilocybin, the active ingredient in psychedelic mushrooms, extended the cellular lifespan of human skin and lung cells by more than 50%.

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