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Keeling over on the Soccer Field
I’ve been writing for ScienceBlog almost since its inception, and I feel grateful for the platform it has given me, and identified with the values and culture of ScienceBlog.
Dec 20, 2023
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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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I think I know why methylation clocks are failing
Methylation clocks promise to revolutionize testing of anti-aging interventions in humans, by measuring their effectiveness in a few months instead of having to wait years to see if they affect mortality statistics.
Dec 17, 2023
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Michael Levin on Aging and Regeneration
The Levin laboratory has found the developmental blueprint that tells the embryo how it must grow.
Nov 29, 2023
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What Gödel Wrought
The Enlightenment was a three-century European movement to tame the world under the reign of Reason.
Nov 22, 2023
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Dr Mercola Doesn't Like Seed Oils
The benefits of maintaining the proper omega 3:6 ratio are well-established. Bodily tissues consist primarily of saturated and monounsaturated fats, which are a readily utilized source of nutrients that support the development and maintenance of cells.
Sep 30, 2023
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I’m not going to write about the British mortality data
It would be just like me to tease you with a clever, ironic headline like this introducing a long, detailed analysis of the British mortality data.
Sep 11, 2023
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All together now…
If a star is big enough to explode at the end of its natural life, but not big enough to form a black hole, it will explode on the outside, while collapsing on the inside from gravity.
Sep 10, 2023
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News from Harold Katcher’s Lab
The big news: (1) the active ingredient in E5 is exosomes. (2) Young exosomes retain their ability to rejuvenate across mammalian species lines.
Sep 4, 2023
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An adjustment to Newton’s gravity?
For 85 years, astronomers have noted that there is more gravity than they can account for in the galaxies that they see, in clusters of galaxies, and in the dynamics of the whole universe.
Aug 25, 2023
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Exosomes and their Potential for Rejuvenation
Extracellular Vesicles (EVs) have only been studied in the 21st century. Think of them as natural lipid nanoparticles, or endogenous viruses.
Aug 6, 2023
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Cellular Rejuvenation Without Yamanaka
The Yamanaka factors (four proteins, abbreviated OSKM) are a treatment that can completely reset any ordinary, functional cell into a pluripotent stem cell, able to regenerate tissues of any type.
Aug 4, 2023
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CO2 is the Least of our Worries
Last week, Nobel physicist John Clauser to speak his own inconvenient truth about global warming and CO2 . . Another physicist who was a personal hero of mine…
Aug 4, 2023