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antiaging
[an-tee-ey-jing, an-tahy-]
adjective
effective in retarding the effects of aging.
Chemists hope to produce an antiaging drug.
Word History and Origins
Origin of antiaging1
Example Sentences
As a physician-scientist, I could dismiss the antiaging trend as absurd.
The market for longer life is booming—just ask those who sell antiaging “recovery pods” and supplements that slow “cellular time.”
The team proposes several possibilities: the cells could release antiaging proteins or tiny extracellular vesicles capable of entering the brain, or they might remove pro-aging factors from the bloodstream, protecting the brain from harmful effects.
Even more astonishing, when the researchers collected the exosomes—tiny molecular communication packets secreted by the altered stem cells—from these cells while the cells were growing in a petri dish, they found that these exosomes alone could replicate much of the antiaging effect in the monkeys.
If a new demographic of consumers need to upgrade their routines, they could have turned to the $50 billion–plus antiaging skin care industry.
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