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 can spread misinformation. Today’s little gem fits right in with that theme. The latest round of “Fish oil No Good for Heart Disease” studies was published this […]
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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 – somatic cells and stem cells. Somatic cells are cells that are already at their final stage of evolution. Examples are mature heart, skin, liver and gut cells.
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We got this question through our book site. The answer, of course, is in the book reference section, but I have long ago given up on people doing anything more than wanting us to do all the work for them! “In your book, under ‘why is Co Q10 so important,’ you state, ‘some studies that
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I know a lot of amazing people in the telomere field. I have been honored to meet, speak and learn from all of them. But my favorite, as you may already know, is a young lady named Maria Blasco. I like Maria best for a bunch of reasons, not the least of which is she
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I published this in response to a blog touting the benefits of salivary testing from a company called TeloMe. I will use the same phrase I did when comparing the efficacy of other telomerase activators to TA-65. It went like this, “How much will people spend on something worthless to “save money”? Answer: About a
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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 the cancer!” I always found it ironic that, before the cancer occurred and after they had done whatever they did, which in many cases did not save
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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 different that what used to be exciting, positive information is no longer read or paid attention to. Instead, only the negative press gets attention. That is how
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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 tissue types? Typically we measure telomere length in the granulocyte line of White Blood Cells. These cells are typically responsible for fighting off viral infections and the
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As one of the “original cast and crew” using TA-65, I get a lot of questions about how to specifically use the product. Here is a breakdown with special attention paid to age at the time of starting TA-65: 250 units (1 capsule daily) is efficacious for healthy adults in their 40′s or 50′s. Also,
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This past week, Geron just announced a successful test of a telomerase activator in mice. The goal of this activator is to reverse lung damage caused by a telomere dependent disease known as IPF, idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis. The word idiopathic does not mean the doctors are idiots and can’t figure it out; it means “cause
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