Monthly Archives: December 2009

It is time for a bit of humor.  I receive several advertiser-supported health, longevity and vitamin-promoting magazines in the mail.  I am not sure why they are getting sent to me since I don’t pay for them.  I usually have … Continue reading →

I set out two days ago to see what updated research I could find on diet and cognition.  I found a bewildering array of items, some somewhat contradictory.  It has been a cognitive challenge to make sense of them, especially … Continue reading →

One hope for personalized medicine is that individuals would have their major gene variations profiled and that drug interactions with critical genes would also be profiled.  Thus, a person with a particular disease could determine whether a particular drug is … Continue reading →

My anti-aging firewalls treatise characterizes 14 major theories of aging and 6 additional “candidate” theories of aging.  Up until yesterday and I thought I had come to the end of the line with respect to new aging theories.  However my blog … Continue reading →

In the last 2-3 years there is has been a lot of excitement in research circles about brown adipose tissue, in other words, brown fat.  Brown fat, long known to exist plentifully in babies and rodents, is rich in turned-on … Continue reading →

If you have pet mice suffering from colitis, the probiotic Bacillus Polyfermenticus can help them recover from it according to a 2009 study(ref).  “Mice treated with B. polyfermenticus during the non-inflammatory period of the disease had reduced rectal bleeding, their … Continue reading →