Yearly Archives: 2014

NAD+ an emerging framework for life health and life extension — Part 2: Deeper into the NAD World, hopeful interventions

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By James P Watson with contributions and assistance by Vince Giuliano This is Part 2 of what will likely be a six-part series of blog entries related to the metabolic cofactor NAD+ and what goes on in the NAD World,  … Continue reading

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NAD+ an emerging framework for health and life extension — Part 1: The NAD World

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By Vince Giuliano with inputs from  James P. Watson Accelerated by the publication in December 2013 of a seminal paper by David Sinclair and his US and Australian colleagues(ref), there has been increasing interest and excitement about the prospects of … Continue reading

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The Prospects that Emerging Science Offers Us for Long Healthy Lifespans – PowerPoint presentation for non-scientists

By Vince Giuliano I rarely hesitate to talk about exciting research developments reported in this blog with my friends.  However, only a few people  in our local community of Wayland Massachusetts have known about the blog or our work on … Continue reading

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The Alpha and Beta of GSK-3s – first in the Strange but Powerful Molecules Series

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The Molecules that Play Dr. Jeckel and Mr. Hyde in Aging, Alzheimer’s Disease, and Type II Diabetes By James P Watson, with summary and contributions from Vince Giuliano Introduction – GSK-3s – The “Dr. Jeckel and Mr. Hyde” Molecules Have … Continue reading

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Prospectus for reversing age-related immune senescence

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By Vince Giuliano and Jim Watson Immune  system functionality declines significantly with advancing age, leading to increased susceptibility to infectious and many other diseases.  This is a very important aspect of aging as we know it.  This blog entry looks … Continue reading

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The Amyloid Beta face of Alzheimer’s Disease

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By Jim Watson with editorial and minor contributions by Vince Giuliano Much has been learned over the years about Alzheimer’s Disease (AD) and there are several sides to the unfolding story which considered together are making more and more sense.  … Continue reading

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What do we need to do to live longer, healthier lives? An editorial tale of cars and people

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By Vince Giuliano Can we expect to live longer and longer as the first part of this century rolls by? I think so, probably by a large amount. We about doubled our human lifespans in the course of the last … Continue reading

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PLANT COMMUNICATIONS By Melody Winnig and Vince Giuliano Plants are far from being deaf and dumb.  We think this blog may help convince you that they are smart, listen carefully and are highly expressive. The topic of this blog is … Continue reading

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Anacardic acid –. Ayurvedic medicine, old industrial phytochemical with newly discovered molecular actions and health properties

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By Vince Giuliano and James P Watson Continuing a tradition in this blog of reviewing particularly interesting phytochemicals, we here discuss research on health-related properties and applications of anacardic acid.  Although much of the research on anacardic acid has been … Continue reading

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Trehalose – a natural sugar that could possibly be consumed for health and longevity

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By Vince Giuliano and James P Watson. Trehalose is a natural disaccharide sugar contained in mushrooms and many other organisms.  It has remarkable health-producing and life-extending properties that work in mice and lower organisms.  That is why we choose to … Continue reading

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