Oh boy do I have news for you: According to a New York Times article, the fountain of youth may be found in one of two places, or both: self-starvation or red wine. I choose the latter. How about you?

There have been plenty of studies about the benefits of red wine (possibly funded by Sergio Rossi?), but new research claims it may be more potent than scientists originally thought:

Serious scientists have long derided the idea of life-extending elixirs, but the door has now been opened to drugs that exploit an ancient biological survival mechanism, that of switching the body's resources from fertility to tissue maintenance. The improved tissue maintenance seems to extend life by cutting down on the degenerative diseases of aging.

The reflex can be prompted by a faminelike diet, known as caloric restriction, which extends the life of laboratory rodents by up to 30 percent but is far too hard for most people to keep to and in any case has not been proven to work in humans.

Research started nearly 20 years ago by Dr. Leonard Guarente of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology showed recently that the famine-induced switch to tissue preservation might be triggered by activating the body's sirtuins. Dr. Sinclair, a former student of Dr. Guarente, then found in 2003 that sirtuins could be activated by some natural compounds, including resveratrol, previously known as just an ingredient of certain red wines.

I don't think I can handle the starvation part, but drinking more red wine seems doable, no?