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Fish Oil and High Blood Pressure
You know, it’s funny. You can always tell when something has truly become popular because it begins to inspire negative comments. People are so “in need “of something…
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…
Short telomeres are associated with decreased cancer survival
At the end of 2010, JAMA published a large meta-analysis on telomere length and cancer incidence. JAMA is not usually my favorite journal for this kind of work,…
Yet another study connects human lifespan with telomere length
Scientists are by nature skeptics. Usually it takes more than one positive result and one positive study to convince them. There is no set number of studies you…
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…
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