Author: Consultant

Jun 17 2020

Daily News

Quantifying Loss of Kidney Function with Age in a Human Population

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Kidney function is critical to health, but, as is the case for all organs, the kidneys declines with age. The damage of aging produces harmful outcomes in many ways. For...

Jun 16 2020

2020, Aging Skin, Anti-Aging, Eyes & Eyelid Area

Drooping eyelids and eyebrows.

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This is a great question.  We all have different patterns of facial aging depending on our parents, families, and ethnicities.  So at the end of the day, you’ll need a...

Jun 16 2020

Medicine, Biotech, Research

A Potentially Safe Mitochondrial Uncoupling Drug Candidate

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Mitochondrial uncoupling is the mechanism by which cells generate heat. Mitochondria are the power plants of the cell, a herd of bacteria-like structures that conduct energetic processes to generate the...

Jun 16 2020

Daily News

Loss of Visual Acuity Correlates with Dementia Risk

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Many aspects of aging correlate with one another, even those with quite different underlying mechanisms and proximate causes. The various forms of root cause damage that result in the aging...

Jun 16 2020

Daily News

Blood Drainage from the Brain Slows with Age, Leading to Ventriculomegaly

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As noted here, the circulation of blood through the brain slows in specific ways with increasing age. Taken as a biomarker, this correlates with one of the noteworthy structural changes...

Jun 15 2020

Newsletters

Fight Aging! Newsletter, June 15th 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....

Jun 13 2020

Medicine, Biotech, Research

Stress Granules are Required for Calorie Restriction Induced Longevity

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The formation of stress granules in cells is an interesting topic. As the name might suggest, this behavior emerges in cells undergoing stress, such as lack of nutrients, heat, cold,...

Jun 13 2020

Daily News

Lysosomal Activity is Positively Affected by Various Longevity Mutations in Nematodes

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The cellular organelles known as lysosomes are packed full of enzymes, enabling the recycling of metabolic waste and damaged or unwanted proteins and structures by breaking them down into their...

Jun 13 2020

Daily News

Changes in Muscle Metabolism Cause Beneficial Changes in Fat Metabolism in Long-Lived Dwarf Mice

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The open access paper here makes an interesting companion piece to a recent review of what is known of the role of fat tissue in the longevity of dwarf mouse...

Jun 12 2020

Uncategorized

Novel approach for treating eczema

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Researchers have identified a key enzyme that contributes to eczema, which may lead to better treatment to prevent the skin disorder’s debilitating effects.