Can Rapamycin Extend Healthy Aging in Humans?

Among the worries that haunt retirees is possibility that retirement might be ruined by the effects of aging — softening bones, wasting muscles, creaking joints, misfiring neurons. Is there any hope that medical science might find an elixir that eliminates, or at least postpones, the onset of these curses of the elderly? Sign in to a webinar on this subject by Adam Konopka, whose research is on the biological mechanisms causing the afflictions of old age and seeks to find medications that might beneficially modify those mechanisms.