THE HORMESIS BARS

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A collection of stories and explanations by Jim Watson and Vince Giuliano The stories are fantasies about new kinds of bars that could possibly exist in the future.  The Hormesis Bars are ones where all the drinks produce stresses.  According … Continue reading

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PART 3: Slaying Two Dragons with the Sound of Silence: – How to Keep Your Repetitive DNA Turned Off with “3 Songs”: Sirtuins, Polycomb Proteins, and DNMT3. And a Master List of Drugs and Natural Compounds for Cancer Chemoprevention

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By James Watson (with some help from Vince Giuliano) Image source This is the Part 3 of a three-part series of blog entries on the epigenetic’s of cancer and aging and how those two deadly dragons can be seriously slowed … Continue reading

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PART 2: Slaying Two Dragons with One Hail of Stones: The Silencing Of Good Genes In Aging And Cancer – And How Polyphenols Can Prevent That

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 By James Watson (with editorial help from Vince Giuliano) Image source This is the Part 2 of a three-part series of blog entries on the epigenetic’s of cancer and aging and how those two deadly dragons can be seriously slowed … Continue reading

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PART 1: Slaying Two Dragons with One Stone – How to Prevent Cancer and Aging with the Same Strategy

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Image source By James Watson and Vince Giuliano This is the first part of a three-part series of blog entries on the epigenetic’s of cancer and aging and how those two deadly dragons can be seriously slow down or stopped … Continue reading

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Response to Jim Watson’s wager challenge

Image source This blog entry is in response to the wager challenge in Jim Watson’s post Aging science wager challenges and prizes open to readers of 8 April, 2013.  As you will recall, $2.00 is the total at stake. Normally, … Continue reading

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Autophagy – the housekeeper in every cell that fights aging

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By James P Watson and Vince Giuliano Background and introduction There is a wide variety of genetic manipulations, pharmacologic manipulations, and nutrient manipulations that have been shown to alter lifespan in model organisms.  These include caloric restriction, “loss of function” … Continue reading

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Aging science wager challenges and prizes open to readers.

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Image source Frequent readers of this blog know that James P Watson (Jim) is a colleague and significant contributor to this blog.  Jim recently sent me an e-mail offering to make personal wager bets with me on two questions related … Continue reading

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The Prospects that Emerging Science Offers Us for Longer Healthy Lifespans

On March 25 2013, I gave a presentation “The Prospects that Emerging Science Offers Us for Longer Healthy Lifespans” as part of the Kopriva Science Seminar series at Montana State University.  Thanks in part to good newspaper publicity, The Hager … Continue reading

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Announcement – Vivace Associates

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  A small group of key colleagues and I have formed a new consulting business, Vivace Associates.  Our target clients are all organizations concerned with the cost and efficiency of health care – health insurance companies, governments and government agencies, … Continue reading

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Multifactorial hormesis II – Powerpoint presentation

This blog entry contains the PowerPoint presentation I gave in Honolulu at the Hawaii Institute for Molecular Education Symposium Investigating the Future of Medicine which was Webcast on March 16, 2013.  The presentation is more graphical and less technical than the … Continue reading

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