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Telomeres and Your Heart
Warning: this blog is not just regurgitation or rewording of a press release from somewhere else. It contains original content and original commentary. Since February is National Heart…
Telomeres and Drugs and Big Pharma
Heart disease has one of the longest standing associations with short telomeres in the aging literature. The relationship was first noted decades ago, and it has held up…
Telomerase magic
If you study the biologic time clocks in the cell, known as telomeres, and you study the enzyme that lengthens them, telomerase, you are truly learning about magic.…
Is Aging Unstoppable – Baby steps come first!
The debate among aging scientists about whether aging itself can be stopped has been running for decades. In a functional sense, the question has already been answered. Multiple…
Stress Kills Right?
Since the so called Type A personality entered the medical literature roughly 50 years ago, scientists have wrestled with the connection between stress, disease, and aging. There has…
Fish oil and Telomeres – it’s all about length
I want to believe; I really do! I want to believe that fish oil, specifically MY fish oil, is a telomerase activator! But there is this little thing called lying…
Fat from conception – stacking the deck against little Johnny!
We spend a lot of time looking for reasons why we are fat. There has to be some other answer besides too much sitting and too much eating.…
Food for life – Broccoli and Telomeres
Many herbal and plant-derived compounds show anti-cancer activity. Sadly, until someone figures out how to make the big drug pay day by changing them just enough to patent…
Hard as Nails versus Tough as Nails – more than a name!
I had an interesting discussion with a friend of mine the other day about character, specifically strength of character. The phrase “Hard as nails” came up over and…
The monster is not born immortal: When telomerase drives cancer
A recent German study has found an association between familial and non familial malignant melanoma and the telomerase gene. I think we should talk about this because it…
Rat empathy, stress and telomere shortening
It may seem strange to tie all of these seemingly dissimilar things together but bear with me and all will be revealed. As you probably know by now…
Foods That Lengthen Telomeres: What the Evidence Actually Shows
As a telomere expert, here is the honest read on foods that lengthen telomeres. What diet really does for telomere length, what is hype, and how I eat.