The Peloran Treatments promised to make us all healthier and to live for centuries.  They performed a five-year study and it worked perfect.  No side effects.  Old men and women on their deathbeds stood up and walked away after a few days or weeks.  They were miracle drugs and the public screamed for them to be released to the masses.  Why should anyone be sick or die of old age when we could stop it?  So we did.  We welcomed the Second Age of Methuselah with open arms.