Some wonderful handful of you commented on the use of “way” instead of “weigh all the odds”. Those of you who know me well actually wanted to know if it was deliberate. While I honestly appreciate your faith in me and my sense of humor, I can assure you it was an undetected spell check […]
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Today is the day for the fabled mid term elections. We are bombarded on all sides with contradictory information in the form of facts. The truth of the matter is that most of these things do not play on our intelligence, they prey on our emotions. It’s actually similar to buying behavior. A study of
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I hope you had a fun Halloween. I spent mine in the great white north with some great people. Speaking of tricks or treats this past week was really a fun one for me in science because: 1) A huge NIH sponsored study showed a direct correlation between the amount of Omega 3 in the
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For quite some time now I have been telling you that aging is a disease. A disease can be treated and, in some cases, cured. Of course, in our tradition that means drugs and drugs have side effects. The famously anti-supplement, anti- alternative medicine journal drug company mouth piece known as JAMA, the Journal of
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I read a recent article in Forbes that stated that the Fountain of Youth may be hiding in plain sight. Wanna guess what the hidden fountain was? Telomeres of course. What was sad is that this concept is now 10 years old and that 9 years ago I wrote a book about this very thing,
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I was asked one of the best questions I ever heard about Omega 3 fish oils by a reporter who was doing a story on them 2 years ago. He said, “Why is it so hard to get the truth about them! Do they work or don’t they!” The easy answer was of course they
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This has been big week for telomeres in the news. The biggest points should not surprise you since I have been writing about them for 10 years! The first is finally a study that acknowledges that shorter telomeres are associated with a higher cancer risk. One of the news commentaries even uses my trademark phrase
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For several years now a drug company called Amarin has been trying to get their drug Vascepa accepted by the FDA for several medical indications. Before we get to this there are a few things you should know. First there was a long long delay in the FDA approval even though the drug was approved
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It’s odd to talk about telomeres out of the context of aging since they are so intimately related to why we get old. Over the past 9 years I have often written to you about how shortening of the telomeres advances the aging process. Indeed, the Life Length Test which I offered a discount on
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The microbiome-also known as the bacteria that live in your gut- is a big part of how things happen in your body. While not directly related to aging YET, it is directly affected by age and is huge in terms of your overall health. You’ve heard me say a thousand times, “Take Care of Your
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