The Right Chemistry: Trying to beat the aging process

Perhaps the oldest formula for trying to beat the aging process can be found in an Egyptian papyrus dating back to circa 1500 BC. The Edwin Smith Papyrus features a Recipe for Transforming an Old Man into a Youth that involves rubbing the body with a dried “hemayet” fruit to remove “all weaknesses which are in the flesh.” Unfortunately, nobody has been able to identify what the hemayet fruit is.
Fast forward to present day, and instead of fruit, we find fruitloopery. That