Elizabeth Parrish of the anti-ageing company BioViva claims to have given herself two kinds of experimental gene therapy, one of which blocks the breakdown of muscle tissue. In other words, your muscles stay strong even if you don’t exercise – and grow faster if you do.
It’s not clear if Parrish really has done this, let alone if it worked. Nonetheless, you can be certain that BioViva is already getting calls from sportspeople desperate to try it themselves. Gene therapists working on treatments that could help athletes say they often get such calls.
