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...that “if someone does this experiment and proves that the mice are healither and live longer without serious secondary consequences, then...it is safe to say that having these mice will prove a principle that humans could be justified” in seeking an anti-aging elixir. The study was performed in the lab of David A. Sinclair of Harvard Medical School, who has done much work with the protein, SIRT1, and who co-authored the study...

Author: By Elyssa A. L. Spitzer, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Gene May Hold Anti-Aging Secret | 12/5/2008 | See Source »

...Save My Feet Blister Elixir The shoes that look the best sometimes hurt the worst. To defend against blisters and uncomfortable friction, grab a bottle of Save My Feet Blister Elixir - it'll do just that. Just dab a bit wherever you predict pain and let it dry for 10 minutes; the combination of skin protectants (allantoin and dimethicone) will thwart rubbage for eight hours, and won't stain your socks or stockings. It has a light and fresh scent, almost like suntan lotion, and is perfect for breaking in new shoes - boots, flip-flops and everything in between...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Top Treatments for Road-Weary Peds | 11/12/2008 | See Source »

...went secure peace, but we still had prosperity. And then last month, the other shoe dropped. Now both peace and prosperity seem uncertain. When we were riding high, we called it "business as usual" and found it intolerable. Politicians of every stripe promised to rescue us with a magic elixir: "change." Well, now we have change. Kind of makes you miss that old business as usual, doesn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Leader We Deserve | 10/16/2008 | See Source »

...vines in the village of Ambonnay - I try not to do the math that makes this the costliest tipple I am ever likely to have on a Tuesday afternoon. Determined not to be dazzled by its price and rarity, I take a sniff and a sip. The bright golden elixir smells at first like almond blossoms, but the aroma quickly ripens like dark fruit. An exceptionally fine mousse of bubbles seems to linger forever on the tongue...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bubble Rapt: Champagne | 8/6/2008 | See Source »

...sometimes use it to trigger the release of breast milk (and nearly half of all women who give birth in the U.S. intravenously receive Pitocin, a commercial version of oxytocin, to induce labor). But some entrepreneurs are already touting oxytocin as a shyness cure. One website hawks a "trust elixir," an oxytocin-laced perfume that its manufacturers say will make its wearers seem more trustworthy to others - and vice versa...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Can Oxytocin Ease Shyness? | 7/21/2008 | See Source »

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