Facebook has redefined the word “like”, so let me start out with a simple request. If you haven’t already done so, please “like” me on Facebook. Do it now; I promise the blog will still be here, when you get back. Today, I am going to share a bit of a retrospective view with you …
It may be hard for you to believe but 11 short years ago I was a poster child for Big Pharma. As a traditional Internist I practiced the art of dispensing drugs and more drugs. My fall from grace (not literally but figuratively) is well documented in my website story and the many emails I …
Telomeres junk? Not long ago some of the brightest minds on earth believed telomeres were nothing more than junk whose sole purpose was to protect the treasure — your DNA. It turns out that junk IS the treasure. Without it there is no life. Many of those great minds may pretend they “knew it all …
Recent research into the role of genes and more importantly the stuff around our genes known as the epigenome reveals why some of us may be a genetic time bomb ticking away. What can you do to stop the clock? During my years of medical practice I was approached by patients with real fears that …
For those of us in the field, the recent slew of articles that show an age-independent link between telomere length and cancer comes as no surprise. When I say age-independent I mean your age, not the age of your individual cells. Cells age independently of the organism in some cases and the oldest cells have …
Telomere length seems to correlate nicely with the appearance and dysfunction of aging. Most diseases associated with aging, so far are also correlated with short telomeres. This includes heart disease, cancer (in spite of the huge over expression of telomerase in many, if not all cancers) arthritis, and various forms of dementia. In most cases, the white …
So far our book “The Immortality Edge” has met with generally positive reviews. There are of course the expected naysayers. This is to be expected when you change reality, or attempt to. And there are the usual insane people. That is the nature of the internet, which gives equal voice to all versions of reality …
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You have probably heard that sleep is an important component of health, anti-aging and fat loss. So, in one fell swoop, it covers living longer, better and looking better as well. Why is it so important? Well first, sleep is one of the “big three” of the things that can make or break fat loss. Over training …
It’s staring us in the face like a big diamond in our very own back yard… A simple, easy thing everyone can do to tip the scales of life in their favor. So easy, so simple, yet so neglected. We have it all wrong today with medicine. I say, as a board certified doc with …
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A recent study released from Mass General Hospital (a source of clinical data for the most supplement unfriendly medical magazine next to JAMA, the New England Journal of Medicine) yielded exciting finding for women with menopausal symptoms. Perimenopausal depression and moods swings, hot flashes and weight gain may all be combated by fish oil. This …