Yearly Archives: 2014

Glucosamine for longevity

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By Vince Giuliano with important contributions by James P Watson Glucosamine is one of the most popular dietary supplements, used by millions who hope that it will lessen the ravages of osteoarthritis, arthritis, loss of cartilage and associated pain and … Continue reading

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Administrative notice on registration and comments

By Vince Giuliano In this blog, you must register as a subscriber in order to post comments.  If you have had trouble registering, have found your registration cancelled or are having trouble posting comments, please read on. I turned off … Continue reading

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FIVE-YEAR PROGRESS REPORT ON MAJOR TRENDS IMPACTING ON LONGEVITY.

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By Vince Giuliano This is a progress report on the changing state of human longevity during the five-year lifespan of this blog.  It reviews major trends and forces impacting on our lifespans, both scientific and social.  Longevity can be viewed … Continue reading

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PRECONDITIONING – Adaptive Response In Biology And Medicine – report on the 2014 annual meeting of the International Dose Response Society

By Vince Giuliano and Melody Winnig Frequent readers of this blog are familiar with the fundamental importance that we have attributed to biological stresses and stress-responses in driving health and longevity.   The two of us attended the 2014 meeting of … Continue reading

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Nuclear Aging: The View from the Telomere end of the Chromosome – Part 3 – Telomere Molecular Biology and GUT implications – The two faces of P53

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By James P Watson with editorial assistance and comments by Vince Giuliano This is Part 3 of 3 in the series The View from the Telomere end of the Chromsome.  Because of the length of the telomere story, we divided … Continue reading

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Shedding new light on circadian rhythms

By Vince Giuliano with inputs from James P Watson, Victor, and Melody Winnig Many of our most basic biological processes including gene activation are affected by circadian and other body and cell-level clock rhythms. In January 2012, Victor posted a blog … Continue reading

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A proposed initiative to facilitate retirement transitions – Please vote for it!

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By Vince Giuliano, Melody Winnig, Michael Giuliano and Chen Hua Version updated April 13,2014 This is a different kind of blog entry than the usual ones, not about the hard sciences involved in aging.  Instead, it is about about a … Continue reading

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The evolving narrative and social transformation of aging – Part 3: major initiatives and activities that are reflecting and driving the changes in narratives of aging

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By Vince Giuliano, Melody Winnig and Michael Giuliano This blog entry is the third in a three-part series on the shifting narrative of aging.  In Part 1 we started by laying out main issues confronting the world that are associated … Continue reading

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The evolving narrative and social transformation of aging – Part 2: Narratives of Aging

By Vince Giuliano, Melody Winnig and Michael Giuliano This blog entry is the second in a three-part series on the shifting narrative of aging.  In Part 1 we started by laying out main issues confronting the world that are associated … Continue reading

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The evolving narrative and social transformation of aging – Part 1: Important issues confronting the world associated with aging populations

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  By Vince Giuliano, Melody Winnig and Michael Giuliano How do you imagine growing old? Do you have the narrative that you dread becoming like the uncle who spent 5 years painfully wasting away with cancer? Or the mother who … Continue reading

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