We sure do love our pets! For some people a pet is the culmination of everything they seem to want and need in a companion. As a matter of fact some people spend a life time searching for a partner that has the qualities of their pet. With unquestioning love, unflinching loyalty and total obedience […]
Planning for Fido’s future- telomere length and doggie longevity Read More »
I have said at least a dozen times, you need human studies to document the effect of something in humans! While I freely admit there are probably a dozen or so compounds that turn on telomerase in the lab, TA-65 is the only one with human studies. Recently an actual head to head study was
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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 likely to alienate anyone with a different agenda! So be it. Try to focus long enough to read it all, because it will do your telomeres a
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 attitude, I feel compelled to do what is necessary to protect the truth – YET AGAIN! There are several misconceptions that continue to float around in the
The Truth about Telomerase activation and Resveratrol – The Long and Winding Road Read More »
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 asked why telomerase does not replicate the “full DNA duplex of telomeres”. I was not sure if they were asking why telomeres shorten, if there is an
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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 stay on the single-stranded overhang of DNA that is left and literally falls off the end of the chromosome. There are biochemical and electromagnetic reasons it separates.
How do telomeres protect the ends of the chromosome? Read More »
No, it does not! That is the short answer. The rest of it requires me to get all sciency on you, so read on at your own risk! Recently, I read yet another brilliant rocket scientist, stating that telomerase is turned off in most of our cells to protect us from cancer. The implication is,
TA-65 Causes Cancer Read More »
For the past decade and a half at least a billion dollars in research marketing and publicity money was spent trying to find a home for a class of epigenetic molecules (histone deacetylases) known as sirtuins. If this sentence has your finger hovering over the mouse, ready to move onto something more interesting and familiar,
Should you take resveratrol? Read More »
I got an interesting question from a reader who wanted to know why “resveratrol” was not mentioned in our book, The Immortality Edge. Given all the hype that resveratrol continues to get, it’s a fair question. But in that last sentence is the answer, “hype”. I can remember someone writing in and saying her doctor
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Did you ever wonder why we have “bad genes”. I mean, think of it. If our genetics is supposed to help us survive, why are there such things as bad genes, and more importantly, why do they persist? If you believe in natural selection and evolution, then only the best of the gene pool should
Cancer and other bad genes Read More »