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I set out two days ago to see what updated research I could find on diet and cognition.  I found a bewildering array of items, some somewhat contradictory.  It has been a cognitive challenge to make sense of them, especially … Continue reading →

One hope for personalized medicine is that individuals would have their major gene variations profiled and that drug interactions with critical genes would also be profiled.  Thus, a person with a particular disease could determine whether a particular drug is … Continue reading →

My anti-aging firewalls treatise characterizes 14 major theories of aging and 6 additional “candidate” theories of aging.  Up until yesterday and I thought I had come to the end of the line with respect to new aging theories.  However my blog … Continue reading →

In the last 2-3 years there is has been a lot of excitement in research circles about brown adipose tissue, in other words, brown fat.  Brown fat, long known to exist plentifully in babies and rodents, is rich in turned-on … Continue reading →

If you have pet mice suffering from colitis, the probiotic Bacillus Polyfermenticus can help them recover from it according to a 2009 study(ref).  “Mice treated with B. polyfermenticus during the non-inflammatory period of the disease had reduced rectal bleeding, their … Continue reading →

I became fascinated with l-carnosine about ten years ago.  Back then, this substance seemed capable of doing more or less what telomerase activators are hoped to be doing now – greatly extending the replicative life spans of certain body cells.  … Continue reading →

Light metals may not lengthen lives but heavy metals can certainly shorten them.  Toxicity due to heavy metals can inadvertently come about many ways: drinking slightly acid water that has passed through lead pipes, eating too much mercury-containing tuna and … Continue reading →

A few hours ago a dear friend of mine asked me to review the supplements he was taking before he flew away to live in Germany.  To provide a context for that review I came up with a simplified explanation … Continue reading →

The flow of weekly news items related to telomeres and telomerase has grown from a trickle to a steady stream.  Here is a selection of some recent items.  Centenarian Ashkenazi Jews A recent study of centenarian Ashkenazi Jews found that … Continue reading →

If you are an old timer like me you may remember the World War I marching song:  It’s a long way to Tipperary, It’s a long way to go. It’s a long way to Tipperary, To the sweetest girl I … Continue reading →