Health
Anti-Aging Pills in the News
Last week Len Guarente announced his company will be selling a proprietary formula based on NR, the NADH precursor.
Feb 13, 2015
Column
Josh Mitteldorf
Aging & evolutionary biology
Josh Mitteldorf is best known for promoting the theory that aging is not “wearing out” but rather an evolved program that limits lifespan. The surprising fact that our bodies are genetically programmed to age and to die offers an enormous opportunity for medical intervention. He began blogging about aging on this site in 2012. His guidance for a long life is at AgingAdvice.org. His two books on aging are available at Amazon and elsewhere.
Mitteldorf’s PhD is in astrophysics. Since about 2020, he has taken up a new challenge as curator and critic of science on the fringe, writing about promising science that the science establishment has unjustly neglected.
In other areas of life, Mitteldorf’s two daughters were among the first girls to be adopted from China in the 1980s. He has taught a weekly yoga class for fifty years. He is an avid amateur musician, playing piano in chamber groups, French horn in community orchestras. Follow his other writing at mitteldorf.substack.com, and listen to his poetry on YouTube.
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Health
Do we really need epidemiology to tell us to get off our duffs?
The meme we hear in the news is that sedentary time, time spent sitting, is bad for us.
Feb 5, 2015
Health
MYC: Bad and Good, but More Bad than Good
MYC is the name of a gene that promotes cancer. We’ve known this since the 1970s.
Jan 27, 2015
Health
Programmed Death, H. pylori, and the Legacy of George Williams
Last month, an NYU Med School doc published an article saying that our gut bacteria might be evolved to promote our digestion when we’re young, but kill us when we’re old.
Jan 14, 2015
Health
What is Aging? Most Scientists Still Get it Wrong
Most people misunderstand what aging is. It’s not just the public who have been deceived -- Most scientists and medical researchers who study aging are on the wrong track.
Jan 5, 2015
Health
Where do We Live?
The most beautiful and most profound emotion we can experience is the sensation of the mystical.
Dec 31, 2014
Life
Caloric Restriction, Hormesis, and what they teach us about Evolution
“If aging is driven by damage, then damage must accelerate aging. If hormesis induces damage and slows down aging, then aging is not driven by damage.
Dec 22, 2014
Health
What Doesn't Kill Me Makes Me Stronger
Was mich nicht umbringt, macht mich stärker. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Dec 9, 2014
Health
Regeneration in Mammals--Ancient Capacity is Not Lost, but Actively Suppressed
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Dec 3, 2014
Health
Three Technologies to Watch
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Nov 24, 2014
Health
Nicotinamide Riboside -- Where’s the Beef?
NR is a supplement that affects energy generation in mitochondria and gene regulation through the same pathway as resveratrol and caloric restriction.
Nov 17, 2014
Health
Quick Notes from Quebec
We scratch our heads, we wonder what went wrong. To clearly programmed death we pay no heed… And comfort find we in familiar song: “Respect the body’s wisdom” is our creed.
Nov 6, 2014