Author Archives: Vince Giuliano

About Vince Giuliano

Being a follower, connoisseur, and interpreter of longevity research is my latest career, since 2007. I believe I am unique among the researchers and writers in the aging sciences community in one critical respect. That is, I personally practice the anti-aging interventions that I preach and that has kept me healthy, young, active and highly involved at my age, now 96. I am as productive as I was at age 45. I don’t know of anybody else active in that community in my age bracket. In particular, I have focused on the importance of controlling chronic inflammation for healthy aging, and have written a number of articles on that subject in this blog. In 2014, I created a dietary supplement to further this objective. In 2019, two family colleagues and I started up Synergy Bioherbals, a dietary supplement company that is now selling this product. As of November 2025, I believe the longevity interventions I have already published in this blog and are being followed by me will easily get me to age 100 and somewhat beyond, still healthy, highly functional and working Further, I have been researching and will be pubishing about additional interventions which I expect will buy me several additional years of active healthy living. In earlier reincarnations of my career. I was Founding Dean of a graduate school and a full University Professor at the State University of New York, a senior consultant working in a variety of fields at Arthur D. Little, Inc., Chief Scientist and C00 of Mirror Systems, a software company, and an international Internet consultant. I got off the ground with one of the earliest PhD's from Harvard in a field later to become known as computer science. Because there was no academic field of computer science at the time, to get through I had to qualify myself in hard sciences, so my studies focused heavily on quantum physics. In various ways I contributed to the Computer Revolution starting in the 1950s and the Internet Revolution starting in the late 1980s. I am now engaged in doing the same for The Longevity Revolution. I have published something like 200 books and papers as well as over 430 substantive.entries in this blog, and have enjoyed various periods of notoriety. If you do a Google search on Vincent E. Giuliano, most if not all of the entries on the first few pages that come up will be ones relating to me. I have a general writings site at www.vincegiuliano.com and an extensive site of my art at www.giulianoart.com. Please note that I have recently changed my mailbox to vegiuliano@agingsciences.com.

ALD and lentivirus vectors for gene therapy

Gene therapy – the substituting of inherited defective genes with good ones – does not have an outstanding success record but now is getting off the ground.  As pointed out in an editorial in the Nov 6 2009 issue of … Continue reading

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Vitamin D – don’t fall for it

Falling is one of the major causes of debilitation and accelerated death among the elderly.  Older as well as recent research indicates that old folks in and out of nursing homes who take regular Vitamin D supplements fall a lot … Continue reading

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Spinal cord injury pain – a personal story and a new paradigm

Chronic nagging back pain can result from spinal cord injury (SCI) and can lead to pain in other parts of the body that are in fact not injured.  It can be very difficult to diagnose and a person suffering from … Continue reading

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DNA demethylation – a new way of coming at cancers

I got into this topic indirectly, starting out by researching what is known about DNA demethylation in response to a comment by Res on my blog post Homicide by DNA methylation.  I found a great deal of interesting material related … Continue reading

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Revisiting the naked mole rat – two factors we can emulate for longevity

The lowly naked mole rat is in the news again.  I talked about the little critter in my in my February 2009 post Animal models of aging – the African naked mole rat.  I said “This little critter is the … Continue reading

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MicroRNAs, diseases and yet-another view of aging

  MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are short (22 nucleotides,more or less) single-stranded RNA molecules which do not encode proteins. Discovered in 1993 they are recently coming under intense research scrutiny because of the important roles they play in post-transcriptional regulation of gene … Continue reading

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Homicide by DNA methylation

A recent publication suggests that DNA methylation may be the cause of aging and death in higher organisms.  The May 2009 publication by Alexander L. Mazin from Lomonosov Moscow State University is entitled Suicidal function of DNA methylation in age-related … Continue reading

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The NRG1 Gene – an important new tumor suppressor gene? And press sensationalism about it.

A couple of important tumor suppressor genes have figured heavily in my past writings and in anti-aging science discussions, P21 and P53.  Another tumor suppressor gene may now be coming onto center stage, NRG1.   Paying attention to the general … Continue reading

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Rosmarinic acid

I am partial to an occasional slice of pizza despite my health-driven dietary compulsions. I love to sprinkle generous amounts of oregano on the slices and have often wondered what the health properties of that pungent herb are.  I recently … Continue reading

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Nrf2 and cancer chemoprevention by phytochemicals

A cluster of research reports has appeared during the last few years looking at  mechanisms through which substances rich in phytochemicals (e.g. coffee, chocolate, turmeric, olive oil, broccoli, red hot peppers, green tea, garlic, blueberries, rosemary, oregano, sage) are cancer-preventative. … Continue reading

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