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Personally I love spicy foods, and ginger, curcumin and garlic have long been parts of my Anti-Aging Firewalls dietary supplement regimen.  There is an extensive body of literature supporting the health and potential anti-aging effects of spices.  Sage (salvia officinalis), … Continue reading →

If you are used to reading research abstracts full of abbreviations for genes and proteins, how about this one?  Do you think you get the general idea?  Or do you just tune out on anything that sounds so technical?  The … Continue reading →

Increasingly, researchers are investigating genetic fixes for otherwise intractable conditions.  For example, see the recent blog entry A genetic fix for obesity?  Now, a possible genetic fix is suggested that addresses HIV, a fix that undoes an ancient mutation present … Continue reading →

In anti-aging blog circles the answer seems to be YES, causing endless discussion of how people who want to take these substances and the telomerase activator astragaloside IV should time their doses so the effect of the expensive telomerase activator … Continue reading →

Suppose a simple genetic fix could allow us humans to gorge on fatty junk foods and avoid obesity.  Something like that has been tried on mice and apparently works according to research reported today(ref).  The idea was to introduce a … Continue reading →

A year after first publishing the online treatise Anti-Aging Firewalls – The Science And Technology Of Longevity and six months after initiating this blog, it’s a good time to ask the question “How am I doing with my anti-aging firewalls … Continue reading →

In this blog and in my treatise Anti-Aging Firewalls – The Science And Technology Of Longevity I try to steer a mid course between scientific over-simplification and loosing readers because the content is too technical for them to fathom.  I … Continue reading →

Research reports continue to appear that identify linkages between theories of aging I have covered in the treatise Anti-Aging Firewalls – The Science And Technology Of Longevity.  The latest shows a link between the Telomere shortening and damage, the Programmed … Continue reading →

Here is how it might work.  Suppose your child is born with an incurable disease due to a mutated gene.  After diagnosis, the cure would go like this:  Step 1: hair, blood or skin cells are collected from the patient … Continue reading →

Some time ago I posted an item Everything relates to everything else – at least in the science of longevity.  Recent research shows that applies to epigenomic information.  For some time it has been known that epigenomic information can be … Continue reading →