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Category Archives: longevity
What is the age barrier to genius – Is it only accomplished by the young?
The great genius Einstein once said, “A person who has not made his great contribution to science before the age of 30 will never do so.” However, new research might prove the great Einstein wrong, and that nowadays more and more of the genius level accomplishment are not reached until far later in life. Read more
Alzheimer’s disease: omega-3 and exercise – the complexity of treatment
Fish and/or exercise to help Alzheimer’s disease? Alzheimer’s disease background: Alzheimer’s disease is the leading neurodegenerative dementia disorder. In most cases Alzheimer’s does not appear until after the [..]
How much cognitive ability do we lose over time as we age?
Yesterday you learned after the age of 25 you lose 2 grams of your brain mass per year. That means at the age of 80 you have loss [..]
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 [..]
Frozen in time – thaw me out: a 2008 Breakthrough
Image via Wikipedia We probably have all watched or read some sci-fi movie where either animals (e.g. Jurassic Park) or humans (e.g. Austin Powers) are brought back to [..]
