>>11024519There would likely be things like scars etc. that would accumulate, but parabiosis experiments show that most of the aging damage is fully reversible.
>>11024536It seems zinc may contribute:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19623531 but if you are schizoaffective you are most likely deficient in magnesium. This doesn't show in blood plasma, but in erythrocytes (red blood cells) it does. Succesful treatment restores the magnesium levels. Make sure you get enough magnesium and avoid calcium rich foods. (dairy etc.)
Too much of other elements, like vanadium or berrilium also could potentially cause mental problems. (manic phases)
Zinc free diet would have to be specially created, as most places have enough zinc in soil to enter the food chain. Those that didn't were locatend in the 20th century and fertilized with zinc. (These places were, in fact, located by people who looked too young for their age)
>>11024557No, but I have:
A widely used technique in protein research, where the zinc is replaced with cobalt. The protein still works, (often slightly different, but that difference may matter) but is easier to investigate, if I understand it correctly because cobalt is magnetic and zinc is not.
Widespread cultural myths (even early written recrods) of people not aging before a certain date. It isn't only in the Bible, but in sumerian records, Greek myths, Indian epics, and so on. In a few mountain places like the caucasus or hunza it was held to modern days, people didn't understand why they would just die and there it was common to find people who were way over 100 and alive. This is now generally assumed to be myths. It was very common for previously uncontacted, perfectly healthy people to get very suddenly very ill.
Cobalt being widely used as supplement by athletes to improve performance.
Research on simpler organisms that they can grow with cobalt instead.
