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Further extensions to and implications of the Xenohormetic live food hypothesis

By Vince Giuliano and Melody Winnig  Image source This is the third blog entry related to the Xenohormetic live food hypothesis.  In the first blog entry – Health through stressing fruits and vegetables —  we laid out the basic hypothesis, … 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 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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Mitochondria Part 2: Mitochondrial Responses to Stress: Mitochondrial Signaling: Survival and Death Pathways

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Written by James Watson, with major contributions by Vince Giuliano Introduction – Mitochondrial Roles in the Cell This is the second part in a series of blog entries examining the roles of mitochondria in key biological activities.  For additional background … Continue reading

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Mitochondria in health and aging, and possibilities for life prolongation – Part 1:basics

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Written by Vince Giuliano, with major contributions by James P Watson This is the first of a series of blog entries examining the roles of mitochondria in key biological activities.  The goal of the series is to shed light on … Continue reading

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The Hormetic Wild Animal “Zoo” and Their “Zookeepers”

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By James P Watson There are 2 “Mantras” Here in the Zoo – Hormesis and Nrf2 inducible Isoforms Preface – By Vince Giuliano I want to introduce and welcome James P Watson as a senior researcher and writer for this … Continue reading

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Editorial -Bridging the Great Divide

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     By Vince Giuliano There appears to be a Great Divide in the world when it comes to health, manifest most clearly in Western Countries and in the US in particular.  The divide is between two major paradigms of … Continue reading

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The pivotal role of Nrf2. Part 1 – a new view on the control of oxidative damage and generation of hormetic effects

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The old free radical theory if aging is dead.  And, consuming excessive pure antioxidant supplements can be dangerous rather than health producing – see the blog entry End of the free radical theory of aging and negative consequences of indiscriminante … Continue reading

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End of the free radical theory of aging and negative consequences of indiscriminante antioxidant supplementation

By Victor Most popular discussions of antioxidants are based on an outdated view of free radicals as evil, toxic compounds, ones which cause chain reactions of destructive damage culminating in degenerative diseases and aging.  Research in recent years has revealed … Continue reading

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