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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…
Natural Telomerase Activators: What Actually Turns On the Enzyme
Which natural telomerase activators have real data, and which are lab-dish hype? A doctor sorts the list and explains telomere support vs activation.
Aging fat as a cause for diabetes – the role of short telomeres
Over the past couple of days, I have dug pretty deep into the metabolic associations between obesity, diabetes, and short telomeres. The end result is of course, accelerated…
When therapy is mistaken for normal
In the last blog I delved into some associations between the biologic time clocks we call Telomeres, sugar control and obesity. The net summary of that blog is…
Telomere Length and Metabolic Obesity in Skinny People
I read an interesting article recently. Without going into all the gory scientific details, the gist of the article was as follows: even lean diabetics may have the…
Chasing the wrong rabbit – why cholesterol levels are just a distraction
The statin industry runs to roughly 30 billion dollars a year in the United States. A meaningful portion of cardiology research budget is spent on what amount to…
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…