For centuries, humans have been exploring, researching, and discovering how to stave off life-threatening diseases, increase life spans, and obtain immortality. Biologists, doctors, spiritual gurus, and even explorers have pursued these quests. Yet the key to longevity may not lie in a miraculous essence of water, but rather in the structure and function of cells within a plant — and not a mysterious, rare plant, but a quite commonplace, even ordinary, one: the palm.