Over the past couple of days, I have dug pretty deep into the metabolic associations between obesity, diabetes, and short telomeres. The end result is of course, accelerated aging. But, more and more I have to tell you, I think aging is the real cause, or at least a major contributing factor to many of …
Aging fat as a cause for diabetes – the role of short telomeres Read More »
In the last blog I delved into some associations between the biologic time clocks we call Telomeres, sugar control and obesity. The net summary of that blog is that the body has only so many responses to insults like high blood sugar and obesity, and those responses can wind up looking pretty much the same …
I read an interesting article recently. Without going into all the gory scientific details, the gist of the article was as follows: even lean diabetics may have the same metabolic profile and telomere length shortening as non-diabetic obese people, if those lean diabetics have poor sugar control. What is the big deal? Well, it means …
Telomere Length and Metabolic Obesity in Skinny People Read More »
There is a 30 billion dollar industry supporting the use of statins for both primary prevention and secondary prevention (after the fact) of heart attacks. Similarly, hundreds of millions in studies have been spent to “justify the use of statins”. The JUPITER study is the most recent. I have already commented on my expectation that …
Chasing the wrong rabbit – why cholesterol levels are just a distraction Read More »
Because there is so much misinformation on the internet, I occasionally engage in Yahoo! answers. This one, by yours truly, was chosen as the best description of epigenetics. While I probably just did someone’s term paper for them, it may be useful to you as well, especially in keeping with my prior blogs on the …
About a year ago, I gave a lecture in Boise, Idaho, on anti-aging. I spent a fair amount of time on epigenetics. A month or so after that, I spoke at David Wolfe’s Longevity Now Event and predicted epigenetics would be the next big thing. Well that has apparently happened, as there are a ton …
Calorie restriction is quite intriguing, but in the end run, we will find a few things that make it of limited value, including the fact that we now have 68% obesity and overweight, in this country. We can’t even get to near ideal weight and now we are to tell people to restrict well below …