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Twenty years of clinical practice, distilled into honest writing on longevity, cellular health, and the protocols I use myself.

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Male 3 min

Fish Oil and Prostate Cancer (Part 1)

It is often suggested that Prostate cancer is the male equivalent of Breast cancer. There are some striking similarities. Both are hormonally driven and both occur with increasing frequency…

Fish oil 2 min

What is a healthy diet?

Actually it’s much easier to tell you what is NOT a healthy diet, but I suspect you already know that. The problem is not in knowing what to…

Telomeres 2 min

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…

Telomeres 3 min

Sirtuins, Resveratrol and Human Longevity

There are some serious issues with the way resveratrol is being marketed. A few years ago it was touted as a telomerase inhibitor and NOT to be taken…

Fish oil 8 min

I wouldn’t give my dog Ethyl Ester Fish Oil – Part 2

In this part of the blog I go into even more detail debunking the arguments that seem to have gathered steam on the internet.  It is irritating because…

Fish oil 4 min

I wouldn’t give my dog Ethyl Ester Fish oil – Part 1

So said the brilliant PhD whose talk preceeded mine at a recent public anti-aging conference. While I am not 100% sure if this was a deliberate snipe at…

Telomeres 4 min

Telomeres and longevity – questions from readers

The following questions were sent in concerning telomeres, telomerase, TA-65 and the Life Length assay as offered in the U. S. by adltests.com. Question 1:  Is the database…

Fish oil 5 min

Fish oil – Failure by design

A few months ago I wrote a blog/newsletter entitled “Don’t Swallow It!” It was lamenting the lack of a BS detector on the internet and how easily factoids…

Telomeres 2 min

Stem cells, telomerase and Immortality

Stem cells are often referred to as the “parts bag” of your body. When part of your body is damaged, there are two main avenues of repair –…

Telomeres 3 min

My Favorite Telomere Scientist

I have had the chance to meet most of the major figures in telomere biology over the last fifteen years. Of all of them, the one whose work…

Telomeres 4 min

My feelings about salivary telomere testing

I want to address salivary telomere testing directly. A company called TeloMe offered a salivary based telomere test and the marketing was getting traction in some health and…

Telomeres 3 min

The cancer doctors were wrong about telomerase activators and antioxidants!

I can’t tell you how many times I heard this from cancer doctors (oncologists): “Don’t give my patients antioxidants; you’ll blunt the effect of the chemo and help…