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The old free radical theory if aging is dead. And, consuming excessive pure antioxidant supplements can be dangerous rather than health producing – see the blog entry End of the free radical theory of aging and negative consequences of indiscriminante … Continue reading
By Vince Giuliano Like the previous two blog entries Dietary factors and dementia – Part 1: important recent researchandDietary factors and dementia Part 2: possible interventions, this blog entry is focused on research during the last two years relating dietary … Continue reading
By Vince Giuliano The first blog entry in this series of three Dietary factors and dementia – Part 1: important recent research dealt with research on a variety of subtopics such as the value of the relationship of dementia to … Continue reading
By Vince Giuliano This is the first of three blog entries focusing on research during the last two years relating diet, dietary substances and supplements to late-onset dementias including Alzheimer’s disease (AD), and to the potential roles of such substances … Continue reading
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Salvia miltiorrhiza Bunge (Danshen root) is an important staple of traditional Chinese medicine that has long been used to treat a variety of illnesses including type-2 diabetes, cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases. Strong research evidence such as that cited here indicates … Continue reading
Soon this blog will celebrate its third birthday. So I pause here to discuss where it has been and is going. I also issue a new invitation for applicants who may be interested in becoming associate researchers/writers for the blog. … Continue reading
I published an introduction to the remarkable “anti-aging gene” Klotho in the October 2009 blog entryKlotho anti-aging gene in the news, and a September 2010 update Klotho, phosphates, cola drinks and longevity. Since then in little more than a year, … Continue reading
By Vince Giuliano There is current excitement about a new approach to using a person’s own immune system to fight and defeat otherwise incurable cancers: Adoptive immunotherapy, a technology that is currently the subject of multiple clinical trials. Here, I … Continue reading
By Vince Giuliano The press has recently picked up heavily on work by Mayo Clinic researchers related to reversal of cell-senescence in-vivo via inhibition of expression of the protein p16(Ink4a). The research has been heralded by such headlines as Cell … Continue reading
Previously I have written about the roles of glia and microglia in Alzheimer’s disease and in spinal cord injury. This blog entry reports on recent research which documents the importance of glial pathology as a general underlying factor in essentially … Continue reading