#Hondenenveroudering - Yes. How can we make sure that we grow healthy? By looking very closely at ten thousand faithful four-legged friends.

Soon, American scientists will begin a remarkable medical examination. To do so, they start looking for a hundred thousand very diverse volunteers: young, old, rich, urban dwellers, rural people, thick, thin, black, white, brown.

They select ten thousand of them, after which, for years, they will monitor every aspect of their health to find out why some of them grow healthy old and whether medicines can prolong their lives.

During the study, the subjects will be taken for a walk and their faeces will be collected with bags. They are crowned on their stomachs, fetch sticks, run after balls, smell each other's rear and pee against lampposts. No, I'm not
Because that's part of the experiment, but because they're dogs. The Dog Aging Project, carried out by the University of Washington in Seattle, has been prepared for years and is now finally released. First of all, it will tell us all about aging in dogs, says project leader Daniel Promislow. But the real goal is to gain more insight into how we grow older ourselves and how we can slow down or even reverse that process. It seems that, in order to outwit the human aging process, we are not best to study ourselves, but ten thousand of our best friends.



Thanks dogs to the hundred