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Reviewed By: Laura Martin,
SOURCES: 2008 Medical Reference from Medstar Television. Kelly Frazer, PhD, Genomicist, Scripps Genomic Medicine, La Jolla, Calif.
© 1999-2011 Medstar Television
Throughout his long medical career, Doctor Forrest Adams marveled at his ability to stay healthy.
I could take care of people with severe diseases such as meningitis, polio, diphtheria, strep sore throat, tuberculosis, so on, and I never got anything.
His good health comes courtesy of a famous family tree that includes presidents John Adams and John Quincy Adams.
They lived into their 80s or some into 90s at a time when there were no antibiotics or no vaccines. So they were living, sort of, unsupported by medicine.
Doctor Adams is nearly 88 years old, and is healthier and more active than most of us. And that intrigues Scripps Genomic Medicine researchers.
So we want to collect these individuals to study their DNA to figure out what this, you know, 'Fountain of Youth' is.
Most people carry genetic information that could trigger disease. But this "Wellderly" population has code that alters that path.
They have other DNA differences that counteract them, that modify them, that suppress them, and that's what allows them to obtain this health.
Once they analyze the samples, the Scripps researchers hope to discover ways to enhance everyone's long-term health.
We perhaps can find an intervention, drugs, and test them out to see, can we actually improve the health of people.
Results they hope will make an impact in the next five years. For WebMD, I'm Sandee LaMotte.
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