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.
Category: longevity
aging, brain health, enriched environment, exercise, healthy diet, longevity
Alzheimer’s disease: omega-3 and exercise – the complexity of treatment
by Ward Plunet • • 2 Comments
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 age of 60, but there is an early onset form. It is estimated that 5.1 million Americans have Alzheimer’s. With about 36 million American’s in the 60+…
aging, brain health, longevity
How much cognitive ability do we lose over time as we age?
by Ward Plunet • • 2 Comments
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 about 7.5 % of your brain mass. The question is how does this affect our cognitive ability? Like much of scientific research there are some conflicting results.…
lifespan, longevity
What would you do with a gift of 5 extra years?
by Ward • • 4 Comments
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 humans and you were given an extra 5 years of healthy life? I found this blog piece over at PickTheBrain which covers this question from the reverse…
lifespan, longevity
60 minutes TV coverage of longevity
by Ward • • 3 Comments
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 from the National Institute of Health on primate research examining dietary restriction and said that 50% of the normally fed animals are now dead, and only around…
brain health, lifespan, longevity
Does increased social interactions improve health?
by Ward • • 2 Comments
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 the last 90 years, that dietary restriction increases the life span of organisms. Could there be a link between the two? In this weeks Science magazine there…
lifespan, longevity
Antidepressants – do they increase or decrease your life span?
by Ward • • 5 Comments
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 hacks. According to an independent 2005 study 11% of American females, and 5% of men take antidepressants (this data set is excluding the institutionalized population). However, what…
lifespan, longevity
Freeze those testes: frozen in time – Part II
by Ward • • 2 Comments
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 years. Now news comes that numerous bulls were cloned from tissue taken from frozen testicles (again like the mouse experiment nothing special was done to preserve the…
longevity, Uncategorized
Frozen in time – thaw me out: a 2008 Breakthrough
by Ward • • 1 Comment
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 life after being dead and frozen for a considerable time. Welcome to our apparent every accelerated rate of change in our modern world, as a group of…
lifespan, longevity
A possible stimulating treatment for many of the ‘lifestyle’ diseases
by Ward • • 2 Comments
Image via Wikipedia Lifestyle diseases are the ones we induce on ourselves by how we live our lives. They include being overweight/obese, insulin resistance, metabolic syndrome, type II diabetes (really a spectrum here), all leading to increased cardiovascular disease (and a number of other deadly diseases such as cancer, but to a lesser amount). The…