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 93. 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. 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.

The “skinny” about the “fatso” gene FTO

Posted on 14. September 2009 by Vince Giuliano

Several studies have shown that variations in the FTO gene are associated with increased fatness and obesity in humans as well as, of course, mice and rats.  The gene is an ancient one.  “The FTO gene is well conserved and … Continue reading →

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Hidden research laboratories

Posted on 13. September 2009 by Vince Giuliano

Suppose there were a place in the world where there is a concentration of research laboratories busy working on antibiotics, cures for diseases, means for neutralizing environmental toxins and other molecular approaches that make for longevity.  Suppose further that these … Continue reading →

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New theory of aging

Posted on 12. September 2009 by Vince Giuliano

The update of my online treatise  Anti-Aging Firewalls – The Science And Technology Of Longevity mentioned in my last blog post has been completed and I expect to return to generating regular almost-daily blog entries tomorrow.  I believe the new … Continue reading →

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What I am up to

Posted on 7. September 2009 by Vince Giuliano

I am taking a break from new blog postings for a few days and focusing on an update of my Anti-Aging Firewalls treatise, particularly on a comprehensive re-formulation of the 14th theory of aging.  Where the theory was Decline in … Continue reading →

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More mTOR links to aging theories

Posted on 5. September 2009 by Vince Giuliano

In my May 2009 blog post Longevity genes, mTOR and lifespan, I discussed the mTOR signaling pathway in mammals, its role in diseases, the relationship of mTOR to mitochondrial activity and how inhibiting mTOR could conceivably be a strategy for … Continue reading →

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Blueberries and health – the research case

Posted on 3. September 2009 by Vince Giuliano

In a July blog post Warding off Alzheimer’s Disease and things in my diet, I talked about My usual breakfast: a sugar-free bran cereal with blueberries, walnuts and a sliced half-banana.  I cited research on the health benefits of the … Continue reading →

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Longevity – deadly for defined benefit pension plans

Posted on 2. September 2009 by Vince Giuliano

Defined-benefit pension plans (DBPPs) are ones that pay out a fixed monthly amount for the life of the pensioner, possibly with a cost-of-living adjustment for inflation.  Social Security in the US is a prime example.  There are thousands of other … Continue reading →

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The blood-brain barrier and triple quadrupole mass spectrometry

Posted on 1. September 2009 by Vince Giuliano

A major impediment to developing drugs that affect the brain, such as new treatments for Alzheimer’s Disease, Meningitis , Epilepsy, Parkinson’s disease and Multiple sclerosis, has been determining whether and how effectively a drug substance can cross the blood-brain barrier … Continue reading →

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Recent research on the Mediterranean diet

Posted on 31. August 2009 by Vince Giuliano

New cohort studies were published in the last few weeks on the impact of following the Mediterranean diet on the risk of senile dementia.  This led me to do a quick review of the research behind the general wisdom that … Continue reading →

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A new anti-inflammatory and possible hair color restorer?

Posted on 29. August 2009 by Vince Giuliano

This is about alpha melanocyte-stimulating hormone tripeptide K(D)PT.   In the blog post Anti-inflammatory effects of the hormone alpha-MSH, I discussed a line of research linking the human hormone alpha-melanocyte-stimulating hormone (alpha-MSH) to reduction of inflammation.  Alpha-MSH is synthesized in human … Continue reading →

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