Key points from article :
Strehler-Mildvan (SM) correlation was reported in 1960.
It relates to the Mortality Rate Doubling Time (MRDT) and Initial Mortality Rate (IMR), two parameters of Gompertz mortality law
It says that if the mortality rate is reduced by any interventions at an earlier age, the MRDT goes down, i.e aging accelerates.
Biotech company Gero showed that SM correlation arises naturally as a degenerate manifold of Gompertz fit.
Correlation was indeed a pure fitting artifact.
The study was published in the Journal of Theoretical Biology.
