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What Kind of Exercise is Best for Telomere Health?
There has been a lot of focus on “Long slow distance” (LSD) exercise and telomere health. I have oft quoted the “German Runners Study” which was actually a paper…
Measuring Telomere Length – The Long and Short of It – Featuring “The truths, lies and drama in the slam dunk world of Your Longevity Markers!”
Warning: this blog is long, somewhat complicated, very controversial, likely to make me enemies, likely to be 100% true and an honest reflection of my personal experience and…
The Truth about Telomerase activation and Resveratrol – The Long and Winding Road
I find myself saying the same thing over and over again and I still see the same baseless assumptions all over the internet. So, with my usual cut-through-the-BS…
Why you may have short telomeres
Note the abbreviation “kb” means kilobases as in thousands of base pairs. So 3 kb = 3000 base pairs. At a conference I spoke at recently, I was…
Does being a fitness fanatic make you live longer?
Dr. Dave on the research linking extreme exercise to longevity. Where the J-curve bends and where dedicated lifters and runners get the dose wrong.
The sad failure of calorie restriction
I can’t say it’s a surprise that calorie restriction has failed to extend life in higher primates. It was at least successful in flies, worms and some lower…
How do telomeres protect the ends of the chromosome?
Telomeres protect the genetic information by multiple methods. First, as cited below, DNA polymerase cannot replicate the ends of the chromosome. DNA polymerase is actually “too large” to…
Don’t Swallow It!
This has been a gigantic week, for people like me at least. In the face of so much controversy about what I do and what I say and…
TA-65 Causes Cancer
Dr. Dave Woynarowski reviews the research on TA-65 and cancer risk. What the published studies show, what the mechanism suggests, and what they do not.
Should you take resveratrol?
Resveratrol has been the most overhyped supplement of the last decade. It has also produced one of the more useful cautionary tales in modern translational science. Worth a…
When birds of a feather flock separately
Identical twin studies have been a favorite tool in the nature-versus-nurture debate for almost a century. If two people share 100 percent of their DNA but live different…
Is Spinach the New Broccoli?
I have written enough about broccoli over the years that some readers tease me about it. Broccoli is, in fact, one of the few foods that earns the…
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