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There seems to be no end to news stories about people 100 and over reporting their secrets to longevity.  Here is a sample from today’s news: :·        Being kind to people and eating healthy food (age 102) ·        Exercise (age … Continue reading →

What the heck does this mean?  It means an additional jigsaw-puzzle piece of knowledge relevant to the 14th theory of aging in my Anti-Aging Firewalls treatise, which is Decline in Adult Stem Cell Differentiation.  In this instance Sonic hedgehog (Shh) … Continue reading →

A large number of substances in the combined anti-aging firewalls dietary regimen such as green tea extract, ashwagandah, curcumin, resveratrol, olive leaf extract and boswellia seratta are herbal in origin and contain multiple phytochemicals that have pluripotent antiaging effects. Caffeic … Continue reading →

It is now approximately 11 months since I posted the first version of the Anti-Aging Firewalls treatise and it is interesting to identify how the current version of the treatise (which might  be considered to be Version 1.9) is different … Continue reading →

A step of progress was reported this week in developing better understanding of the molecular processes underlying Alzheimer’s Disease.  For some time it has been known that beta-amyloid protein shows up in excessive quantities in the brains of Alzheimer’s Disease … Continue reading →

Here are a few recent longevity news tidbits derived from studies published in geriatrics journals.  Two of the news reports confuse cause and effect and project a probably-incorrect message.  ·        Seniors can use computerized brain exercises to improve their memory … Continue reading →

When lifespans of 160+ years become routinely available it will most likely be due to research results coming out of the “omics:”  genomics, epigenomics, proteomics, etc.  This is a short introduction to some of the most important omics and how … Continue reading →

Nutrigenomics is one of the many latest “omics,” a hybrid of research focused on study of the relationships among nutrition and genomics.  A podcast discussing this emerging field can be found here.  The field is concerned with identifying how the … Continue reading →

Nanotechnology is a wild and unregulated frontier.  It could offer great health benefits.  For example,   Japanese researchers have developed a nanoparticle that fuses with cancer but not normal cells and induces apoptosis in those cancer cells(ref).  On another front, there … Continue reading →

On the surface it appears that the 14th theory of aging in my Anti-Aging Firewalls treatise Decline in Adult Stem Cell Differentiation is very different than the  12th theory Telomere Shortening. And these two theories seem to be different than … Continue reading →