Fact-check: “Stanford scientists discover a seafood that can reverse the signs of aging.”
Verdict: Misleading (72% confidence)
The underlying research is real — a multi-institution study found that plasmalogens, compounds concentrated in sea squirts, reduced neuroinflammation, improved memory, and restored hair pigmentation in aging mice — but two key parts of the headline mislead. First, the lead institution was Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University, not Stanford; Stanford was one of four collaborators and did not drive the discovery. Second, all reported effects are from preclinical mouse models, not humans, so 'revers…
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