As you may know already, I wrote a book on telomeres back in 2010 called the [eafl id=”2395″ name=”The Immortality Edge” text=”The Immortality Edge”]. While this was a ‘telomere centric’ book, it did focus on all kinds of things to help keep those biologic time clocks ticking. In spite of criticism, I maintained (and still […]
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I get a lot of emails from people who don’t like to eat fish and others who are concerned about mercury in fish. I can understand both. When I was a kid, the fish we got here in Pennsylvania was anything but fresh and it did not leave a pleasant experience in my memory. In the
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As time goes, on people realize more and more the importance of treating your body to the best. It seems like every day there is a new oil claiming to be “as good as” fish oil. Some come from birds, some come from plants, some come from plankton, but none have the weight of evidence that
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Most of the focus in Western society is on the appearance of fat. We have billions of dollars in the sales of diet pills that come and go. As usual, until Big Pharma comes up with a safe, viable (read: incredibly profitable) diet pill, the concept of “diet pills” remains a dirty little secret. No
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Heart disease is currently the number one killer of Americans and has been for decades. It takes more lives and ends more dreams than cancer. It claims 5x as many lives as infections and strokes. And in most cases is it is preventable. With the exception of rare genetic mutations, heart disease could be staved
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When I ask people that question you’d be surprised at the answers I get. The dollar values go from $10,000 on the low side (no, I am not kidding) to priceless. And of course there are the people unwilling to even play this as a game who say, “every life is priceless”. So, I am
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This week, the National Academy of Sciences released a statement, saying that Omega 3 fatty acids (which are EPA and DHA, found in fish oil) may help treat or even prevent cancer. Those are their words, not mine and given the possibility of me winding up prosecuted for even thinking such things, I want you
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I had the wonderful opportunity to present info on telomeres to the St Louis Optometry Society along with my co-author Dr Mike Fossel. There was of course a lot of information on Omega 3 fish oil by me and several other presenters. The main info centered around the prevention of America’s number 1 cause of
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Someone asked me the other day what it’s like to speak to a large audience about staying young and healthy. My reply startled her. I said it was like looking out over a sea of wanting and needing. “What do you mean?” she asked. I said, “There are so many motivated people who want to
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Over a decade ago I created what I called “Dr Dave’s Pizza Hypothesis”. At the time, pizza had just overtaken the hamburger as America’s Number One Junk food. I postulated that if one ate a big ugly fat-laden meal, like Pizza, finishing it off with a big dose of fish oil capsules along with a
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