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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Last week, I had the honor of speaking with Cynthia Kenyon, who has been recruited by Google to direct research activities at their new venture into aging medicine, called CALICO, for California Life Co.
Oct 29, 2014
“In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that no one ever knew before.
Oct 29, 2014
Thanks for Michael Eaves for pointing me to sources for this article.
Oct 13, 2014
The natural foods industry is deep into the anti-aging business, and it’s all based on two lies—one about pesticides and toxins, the other about anti-oxidants.
Oct 6, 2014
Sep 29, 2014
I like to think about chromosomes as Torah scrolls in the Arc of the cell nucleus.
Sep 23, 2014
Sep 15, 2014
“Shift work [ref] and chronic jet-lag [ref] reduce mental acuity and increase the risk of a number of medical problems including cancer, digestive diseases…
Sep 8, 2014
Just this past Spring, Tony Wyss-Coray of Stanford demonstrated that infusions of blood plasma from young mice can make old mice grow new brain tissue.
Sep 2, 2014
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Aug 26, 2014
For 25 years, daily aspirin for people over 50 has been standard advice from the medical profession.
Aug 15, 2014
Oxytocin, the "love hormone", is one of those blood factors that we have less of as we age.
Aug 9, 2014
