[gavinray]

"Reverse brain aging", sure, in the same sense that taking Vitamin C reverses aging.

The nasal spray reduced markers of inflammation in hippocampal microglial cells.

A lot of things reduce inflammation. That is not "reversing ageing".

Of course, "reduces inflammation" doesn't headline very well...

[roncesvalles]

There is a pop theory that aging is just scurvy in slow motion and Vitamin C hypersupplementation actually goes a long way in staving it off.

[Aurornis]

This is the current big grift in anti-aging science:

1 - Find a marker correlated with aging across a large sample

2 - Find a medication or supplement that also alters that marker

3 - Do some before and after measurements of the marker with the supplement or medication, and claim that you have reversed aging. Rely on the fact that enough readers won’t look closely enough to wonder if the marker is a true independent variable that represents aging.

[mberlove]

Asking this honestly...if certain kinds of inflammation tend to accelerate aging, and those inflammations can be controlled or decreased, does that, in effect, at least slow (if not actually reverse) aging? Granted that the headline is sensationalized, it seems like there may still be a point being made that is valid.

[mawadev]

The article is also heavily ai generated, I call bs on every single bit

[bigmattystyles]

I thought the url said temu at first.

[RyanOD]

Hah! Me too.

[rylando]

Kinda surprised A&M’s letting them use AI to write these things

[mawadev]

This entire thread reads like I got flamed by LLM bots

[dwa3592]

>>The article is also heavily ai generated

can you please share your methodology for detecting ai please?

[TonyAlicea10]

“The most surprising part? It all happened within weeks and lasted for months.”

That’s an AI tell. It may not be entirely LLM-generated, the various direct quotations help a lot, but there are touches that definitely feel like an LLM had a hand here.

[ShinyLeftPad]

That's not an "AI tell". If you read anything in recent decades, this is a turn of speech human writers wrote for ages and still write.

[andregr]

"It's not just x, it's y." Absolutely clear tell, especially at this frequency. Examples from the article below:

"Over decades, it doesn’t just wear down, it also starts to run hot." "... the therapy didn’t just clear brain fog, it physically improved the brain’s ability to process and store information."

The quotes as well: "'... Not just living longer, but living smarter and healthier,' Shetty said." "'We aren’t just trying to understand the biological mechanisms, we are translating and developing our findings into real-world therapies that could make a difference,' Shetty said."

[ShinyLeftPad]

What that is is a tell of bad writing

[tim333]

I guess all AI writing patterns are copied from human writing. The tell is that you get patterns like that more frequently than with human writing and in odd places.

It's funny if you look at the paper https://isevjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/jev... how different it is from the article. They basically tried their spray on 18 month old mice and then dissected their brains at 20.5 months to check inflammation.

[dwa3592]

>>It's funny if you look at the paper https://isevjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/jev... how different it is from the article

i can sense the lack of capacity for reasoning in your comment. it's okay. the paper and the article are written by two very different people. the article is written by someone in the communications team, who communicate "what's going on at the university" to the outside world . the paper is written by the actual scientists.

[ShinyLeftPad]

Interesting, I wish I read the paper but somehow didn't encounter links. This takes it from bad writing to terrible journalism to be honest. Can't defend it...

[rfrey]

Anybody who still writes using their own mind has stopped using that pattern, along with others. "The thing nobody tells you:" is no longer used by decent writers.

[ShinyLeftPad]

Yeah, like nobody uses em dashes anymore right?

[damontal]

It’s a tell now. I see it I assume AI and disregard.

[dwa3592]

>>That’s an AI tell

do you have any other explanation other than tells? - maybe your tarot cards might have better explanation.

[asdf88990]

Vibes. It is in the vibes.

[anonym29]

Just a heads up, you're firmly in Poe's Law territory.

[hyperhello]

Poe’s Law is the very essence of AI.

[dwa3592]

c'mon you guys, chill. this is not a vaccine.

[scrubs]

AI generated? Not demonstrated.

Whining by humans claiming AI? Predictable. Probable. Indeed LLM "complete the sentence" predictable.

[fwip]

Sure, a human could be deliberately trying to sound like AI writing, or perhaps they've spent so much time reading it that they think it's normal.