Fish oil may be the true elixir of youth, according to new evidence of itseffect on biological ageing.
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.
A single fountain-of-youth elixir is highly unlikely, says Tamara Harris of the National Institute on Aging, because other activities, such as free-radical oxidation and possibly telomere shortening, also contribute to the body's slow decline.
"Liquidity," that bubbly speculative elixir, gurgled from the founts of the world's central Banks.
Human growth hormone has also been touted as a restorative elixir, even though research has indicated that it can't turn back the clock.
Italy's fate is being decided not just in Rome, but also in Brussels, where euro zone technocrats are trying to concoct an elixir for the region's sovereign debt crisis.
He believes he is sustained by a goddess who pours an 'elixir' through a hole in his palate.
It's the same glass, more or less, that is used for the Windows in your home and the jar of jam in your fridge - and that old elixir bottle you bought at an antique store.
Yet, attention has shifted from the crisis to the elixir of liquidity.
The drug is an elixir for people who are newly injured, but the relief it offers is only partial, and many spinal-injury victims were hurt before it became available.
The search for an elixir of life has taken people to some strange places. Few, though, are stranger than rotifers.
Management now believes Chinese manufacturing isn’t a financial elixir and is hurting their ability to service customers.
The bottom line, Samani says, is that scientists remain a long way from developing an elixir of youth, however alluring that goal may be.
All these are merely the bottles carrying his mysterious elixir.
Yet it hardly constitutes the discovery of an aqueous elixir.
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