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…
Tag: longevity
lifespan, longevity
60 minutes TV coverage of longevity
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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…
lifespan, longevity, olfaction
Stop smelling the roses – and live longer ?
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In this case I don’t mean stop living life to its fullest – soaking it all up – but rather the possibility of ceasing your ability to smell to increase your life span (hopefully you can continue living life to its fullest without the ability to smell – open question). Now one problem with almost…
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Visceral fat and how important it is to your longevity
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Over the last 3-5 years you have probably come across the importance of visceral fat to your health. Visceral fat is not the fat you can pinch at your belly – that fat is subcutaneous fat. Visceral fat is inside the abdominal wall. It is the fat that is thought to be responsible for chronic…
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Is calorie restriction the same in mice and men?
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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…
exercise, lifespan, longevity
Keep moving for greater health and longevity
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How many of hours of aerobic exercise are you doing each week? How much should you be doing? 50+ year olds that run were less likely to die and had lower disability scores as they aged compared to non-runners. The new research paper was published by Chakravarty et al., 2008 a group from Stanford University…
lifespan, longevity
Can our track record in cancer research give us a hint of what we can expect in longevity research?
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Can we look at the history of some leading diseases to get an indication of the potential breakthroughs in longevity research? Research in the longevity field has dramatically grown in the last 3-4 years, and many are claiming we will realize great breakthroughs resulting in longer lives and more healthier years. And I for one…
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How to keep your stem cells young
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Berkeley Campus:Image via Wikipedia Irina Conboy’s lab, from University of California – Berkeley, has just published a new paper in Nature. If you don’t have full access here is an outline of the paper. When muscles are damaged in young animals they are repaired by stem (satellite) cells. However, older animals are not efficiently repaired,…
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A new environment: introduction to hormesis for brain health
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After driving many miles through America and paying high gas prices I arrived at my new location. An entire new environment for me. A hotter, drier climate is the opposite of my previous location. Additionally, now I live at roughly a mile (1610 meters) above sea level, which is fairly high when you compare it…