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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exercise, lifespan, longevity
The testing of a new sirt1 activator: SRT1720
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SRT1720 is a sirt1 activator and the new hope for a calorie restriction mimicker, which may lead to an increase in human lifespan. Resveratrol (which I have written about several times, here, here and here) is also a sirt1 activator, which is found (in very small quantity) in red wine, is also a sirt1 activator…
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Resveratrol improves heart health but not lifespan of mice
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Image via Wikipedia Resveratrol is a natural compound found in several plants, with some of the highest levels in red wine and peanuts. Resveratrol is considered a calorie restriction (CR) mimetic and the hope is like CR that this compound will extend lifespan. I previously covered resveratrol here and here. A paper that came out…
brain hack
Whole body hacks ?
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An example of how it is hard to hack a hacked system follows. Previously I mentioned a quote from Francis Crick (1962 Nobel prize winner for the co-discovery of the structure of DNA (1953)) that biology is a hacked together system rather than engineered from the ground up. This general idea makes sense at an…
brain hack, brain health
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…