telomere length

TTAGGG You’re It! Stress, Disease and Telomere Length

The repeating sequence of the Telomere-TTAGGG has proven to be a gold mine for determining biologic age ( how old your body is acting!) and disease prognosis ( how bad you are likely to get something) as well as the effects of stress. A recent study on the effects of racism on the telomere length …

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TA-65, Telomeres and Cancer, Yet Again

I am not sure how many times I’ve said that longer telomeres protect against cancer. Probably almost as many times as I’ve had to refute someone saying “telomerase causes cancer therefore TA-65 might cause cancer.” Back in December 2010 JAMA a very drug centric Big Pharma supported journal published a study that associated short telomere …

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My feelings about salivary telomere testing

I published this in response to a blog touting the benefits of salivary testing from a company called TeloMe. I will use the same phrase I did when comparing the efficacy of other telomerase activators to TA-65. It went like this, “How much will people spend on something worthless to “save money”?  Answer: About a …

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New Study on Telomeres Answers some Huge Questions

A couple of questions have been nagging at those of us who study telomeres and telomerase closely. The first is – what is the correlation, if any, between tissue types? Typically we measure telomere length in the granulocyte line of White Blood Cells. These cells are typically responsible for fighting off viral infections and the …

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Telomere turf wars – Taming the Beast and the Blasco Fiasco

Let me be clear.  I am a supplement guy; have been for years.  I take supplements.  I make supplements and I sell supplements, which have unequivocally improved the lives of a lot of people. As a supplement guy, the most exciting thing to come along ever, has been TA-65, the Astragalus derived compound that lengthens …

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Why telomeres are not the new cholesterol – YET!

I have been seeing this headline circulating a lot lately – “Telomeres are the new cholesterol”. I actually know where it came from and the people who are responsible for its creation and circulation. These people are very smart and well meaning.  But in their attempts to educate the public as to the very real …

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