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Category Archives: lifespan
What would you do with a gift of 5 extra years?
We discuss interventions to increase the life span on the blog quite a bit – which makes you ponder what would you do if something actually worked in [..]
60 minutes TV coverage of longevity
Last night the 60 minutes TV show had a segment on the latest longevity research. One leading scientist in the field Richard Weindruch reported on the latest results [..]
Does increased social interactions improve health?
Image via Wikipedia Yesterday, I mentioned how a paper reported that 3 weeks of dietary restriction increases social activity in rats. And we know, from many papers over [..]
Antidepressants – do they increase or decrease your life span?
Antidepressants, as I pointed out yesterday, is the most widely use prescription drug in America. Hence you could say it is likely one of the most used brain [..]
Freeze those testes: frozen in time – Part II
Image via Wikipedia A few days ago I wrote about the group that cloned mice from tissue taken from a carcass thrown into a -80 freezer for 16 [..]
Simple foods to improve your health: Part I
Image via Wikipedia I have not covered diet much on this blog so far. Today I will give a cursory glance (Part I) at some potential foods you [..]
Clean water – 2008 health breakthrough
I think some of the biggest breakthroughs for overall health in 2008 occurred in water purification. Paraphrasing Dean Kamen from the well known Colbert Report video: “50% of [..]
Use of statins bad for myelination – possible long-term consequences
Image via Wikipedia The progressive loss of myelin as we age is now thought to be an important component of brain aging (see here) – so the last [..]
Every other day fasting dramatically improves survival rate after heart failure
Image via Wikipedia Intermittent fasting dramatically improves survival rate in an animal heart attack model. Dietary restriction, in its various forms (the two main forms are a 30-40% [..]
