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…
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brain hack
Do longevity treatments make you more social?
by Ward • • 6 Comments
Image by = xAv = via Flickr Would you be interested in a brain hack that makes you more social? We all want to live a long and healthy life, and there is ongoing research trying to find treatments to extend your healthy life span. If you were going to live longer would that give…
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Is calorie restriction the same in mice and men?
by Ward • • 1 Comment
Calorie restriction (CR) (reduced calories with adequate nutrition) in multiple organisms increase mean and maximum lifespan. The big question (along with CR mimetics) is will it do the same in humans? One mechanism (of many) that is thought to be involved in CR effect on lifespan is the lowering of IGF-1. It was an open…
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How would you hack metabolism ?
by Ward • • 2 Comments
On the subject of general hacking. Look at the complexity of metabolism (via sigmaaldrich.com) metabolicpathways_updated_02_072 Not so easy to hack a system so complex. Now the reason this system looks so complex is that it has been well studied (and because it is relatively easy to study). Our brain is likely several orders of magnitude…
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Resveratrol for better brain health ?
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Image by Getty Images via Daylife A new study (freely available because it is published in PLOS one) published today demonstrates that resveratrol (found in wine), in small doses, fed to middle age mice appears to improve the health of the heart and potentially the brain. Previous studies used quite high doses (22 to 186…