Month: May 2020

May 12 2020

2020, Anti-Aging

Does it really matter who does your treatment?

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This a a great question, partly because I wouldn’t have thought of it.  So thank you!I The short answer is; it IS important who does it because technique in almost...

May 12 2020

Medicine, Biotech, Research

Advocating for Senolytics to Prevent Accelerated Aging Resulting from Cancer Treatment

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Chemotherapy and radiotherapy remain the presently dominant forms of cancer treatment. Immunotherapies are making slow inroads, but remain a minority of all treatments. Both chemotherapy and radiotherapy kill cells and...

May 12 2020

Daily News

SENS Research Foundation on COVID-19 and Aging

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SENS Research Foundation here explains why COVID-19, like near all infectious disease, is far worse for the old. It isn’t just a matter of the decline of immune function, though...

May 12 2020

Daily News

Control of Blood Pressure Reduces Risk of Atrial Fibrillation

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Raised blood pressure with age, hypertension, strongly correlates with cardiovascular disease risk and overall mortality. Hypertension is an important downstream mechanism in aging, a way in which low level biochemical...

May 11 2020

Newsletters

Fight Aging! Newsletter, May 11th 2020

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Fight Aging! publishes news and commentary relevant to the goal of ending all age-related disease, to be achieved by bringing the mechanisms of aging under the control of modern medicine....

May 09 2020

Medicine, Biotech, Research

In Search of Very Rare Genetic Variants with Large Effects on Longevity

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Genetic studies of the past twenty years have quite effectively ruled out the idea that genetic variation has a meaningful impact on life span in the overwhelming majority of people....

May 09 2020

Daily News

Correlating Structural Changes in the Hippocampus with Memory Decline

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Memory function declines with age. Some part of this is the result of outright structural damage in the brain, caused by the periodic rupture of small blood vessels that kills...

May 09 2020

Daily News

MiR-375 and Autophagy in the Progression of Osteoarthritis

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Much of the work that the research community conducts on age-related disease is similar to the example here: attempting to pick apart the proximate causes of pathology in an altered,...

May 08 2020

Uncategorized

Skin-to-skin ‘kangaroo care’ shows important benefits for premature babies

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A world-first study has demonstrated significant benefits to a premature baby’s heart and brain function when held by the parent in skin-to-skin contact. Parent-infant skin-to-skin care (SSC) or kangaroo care,...

May 08 2020

2020, All, Anti-Aging, Sunscreens & Sun Protection, Zinc oxide

The “Best” Sunscreen (and what about the Image sunscreen change?).

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Hi Jeff  –  I loved your question and comment above. I’m still looking into this.  So far…..and I’m keeping an open mind, this seems like an expense ploy to me. ...