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New, emerging and potential treatments for cancers: Part 3 – selected less-known phytochemicals that have long been used in traditional Chinese medicine – focus on gambogic and gambogenic acids

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By Vince Giuliano This is the third post in a three-part series concerned with new, emerging and potential future treatments for cancers.  This Part 3 post relates to a vast and largely unknown area from the viewpoint of Western medicine.  … Continue reading

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New, emerging and potential treatments for cancers: Part 2 – focus on anti-cancer interventions that simultaneously address multiple growth pathways

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By Vince Giuliano This is the second post in a three-part series concerned with new, emerging and potential future treatments for cancers.  This Part 2 post is concerned with anti-cancer drug and other interventions that simultaneously address multiple growth pathways.  … Continue reading

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Epigenetic Mechanisms of Long-term Memory

By Victor We all know that we are able to store sensory experiences for later recall; in a very real sense, collection of memories acquired during life represents our personal identity.  However, the neuroscience of memory formation is still in … Continue reading

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New, emerging and potential treatments for cancers: Part 1 – focus on the mTOR pathway

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By Vince Giuliano This is the first post in a three-part series concerned with new, emerging and potential future treatments for cancers.  This Part 1 post is concerned mainly with interventions that address the mTOR pathway, a growth pathway also … Continue reading

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Focus on phytosubstances – amazing properties of epimedium and icariin

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By Vince Giuliano Icariin is the active flavinoid substance in the traditional Chinese medicinal herb Epimedium brevicornum Maxim.  Icariin can be derived from several species of plants in the Epimedium family.  These plants are known most popularly as Horny Goat … Continue reading

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Blue light, sleep, mental alertness and health

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By Vince Giuliano We are being exposed to a lot more blue and ultraviolet light in recent years, especially at night.  This is due to 1. fluorescent bulbs replacing incandescent bulbs in homes and workspaces, especially “daytime” spectrum bulbs, 2. … Continue reading

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Gut microbiota, probiotics, prebiotics and synbiotics – keys to health and longevity

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By Vince Giuliano To take care of your own health you have to take care of about a hundred trillion other living entities.  Each of us is in close relationship with that many micro-organisms belonging to hundreds of different species … Continue reading

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The pivotal role of Nrf2. Part 3 – Part 3 – Is promotion of Nrf2 expression a viable strategy for human human healthspan and lifespan extension?

By Vince Giuliano This is the third of three blog entries relating to the Nrf2 pathway.  The first blog entry The pivotal role of Nrf2. Part 1 – a new view on the control of oxidative damage and generation of … Continue reading

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The pivotal role of Nrf2. Part 2 – foods, phyto-substances and other substances that turn on Nrf2

By Vince Giuliano – updated Feb 8 and Feb 9, 2012 This is the second of three blog entries relating to the Nrf2 pathway.  The previous blog entry The pivotal role of Nrf2. Part 1 – a new view on … 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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