Health
Fasting on a schedule
Eating less is the best-tested and surest way to a younger body and an increased life span.
Apr 30, 2013
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
Multi-level Selection and the Evolution of Aging, II
Last week we talked about a wrong turn taken by 20th Century evolutionary theory.
Apr 22, 2013
Health
Multi-level Selection and the Evolution of Aging, I
Darwin’s legacy, his gift to science is the idea of a creative competition that selects the strong, the robust, the fertile, and thereby ratchets the complexity of life.
Apr 15, 2013
Health
The immune system protects us against cancer
For decades, we have been treating cancer by hammering away at cancer cells with radiation and chemical poisons.
Apr 8, 2013
Health
Young Blood
I'll not be posting next week, not because it's Easter, but because I'm moving. See you April 7.
Mar 25, 2013
Health
Deprenyl: understudied, little-known anti-aging drug
For basic information about healthy living for a long life, see the author’s permanent page at AgingAdvice.org.
Mar 17, 2013
Health
Resveratrol and Sirtuins
Mar 11, 2013
Health
Halting Thymic Involution
The thymus is a thumb-sized organ just above the sternum where our immune cells are trained to recognize self from other.
Mar 3, 2013
Health
Cold Temperature and Life Span: It’s not about the rate of living
When cold-blooded animals are exposed to a cold environment, their metabolisms slow and they live longer.
Feb 25, 2013
Health
DNA Methylation: an Epigenetic Aging Clock?
How does the body know how old it is? Our metabolisms change as we get older, even though our DNA doesn’t change.
Feb 18, 2013
Health
China Study: A Voice for Veganism
The China Study used a broad comparison of different diets and living styles across diverse regions of China to answer questions about diet and disease.
Feb 12, 2013
Social Sciences
The Declining Force of Natural Selection
The “declining force of natural selection” is the foundation of two classical theories of aging.
Feb 3, 2013