A Mental Sign Of Vitamin B12 Deficiency
Good sources of vitamin B12 include fish, poultry, eggs and low-fat milk. (Source: PsyBlog | Psychology Blog)
Source: PsyBlog | Psychology Blog - November 24, 2021 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Jeremy Dean Tags: Nutrition Source Type: blogs
Degenerative Aging as a Side Effect of the Colonization of Land
Today's open access paper makes for an interesting companion piece to the recently proposed adaptive-hitchhike model for the evolution of longevity. Here also, the length of species life spans and the degree to which age-related degeneration (senescence) takes place over time is suggested to be a side-effect of adaptations to specific ecological niches. The authors of this paper observe that a greater proportion of marine clades have a long life span and lesser degrees of senescence than is the case for land-dwelling clades. Further, a greater fraction of marine species continually grow throughout life, a capability that h...
Source: Fight Aging! - November 22, 2021 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Medicine, Biotech, Research Source Type: blogs
Fight Aging! Newsletter, November 22nd 2021
This study nicely illustrates the importance of the cellular metabolic state of myeloid cells: it highlights that not only the availability of glucose, but also its channeling into different pathways (glycolysis versus glycogen synthesis) contributes to maintaining proper myeloid function.
On the Ability of Redundant Blood Vessels to Lower Cardiovascular Mortality
https://www.fightaging.org/archives/2021/11/on-the-ability-of-redundant-blood-vessels-to-lower-cardiovascular-mortality/
A few strategies offer the possibility of growing additional redundant blood vessels, though this is far from rigorously p...
Source: Fight Aging! - November 21, 2021 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Newsletters Source Type: blogs
Fish-Shaped Microrobots to Deliver Chemotherapy to Tumors
Researchers from the University of Science and Technology of China, working with outside collaborators, have developed shape-shifting microrobots that are designed to be guided to a target area in the body using magnets, and then release a drug cargo in response to the local environment. The application that the researchers have pursued involves guiding the microrobots to a solid tumor using magnets outside the body, and then the tumor’s naturally acidic microenvironment stimulates a shape change, resulting in the local release of a chemotherapy drug.
Researchers are devising a variety of cunning ways to de...
Source: Medgadget - November 19, 2021 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Conn Hastings Tags: Materials Medicine Oncology Radiology Source Type: blogs
Studying the Comparative Biology of Aging in Rockfish Species
Rockfish species vary widely in lifespan. Some even exhibit negligible senescence, showing few signs of aging across the majority of their long life spans. When closely related species have divergent life spans, there is perhaps the opportunity to learn something of how metabolism determines longevity. Accordingly, researchers here report on their study of varied rockfish species, in search of the differences in the molecular biology of cells that lead to differences in life span and pace of aging.
In a new study, researchers compare the genomes of nearly two-thirds of the known species of rockfish that inhabit co...
Source: Fight Aging! - November 19, 2021 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Daily News Source Type: blogs
HOW TO Improve Your Mental Health With Technology
Technology and mental well-being might seem like profoundly antagonistic terms. However, there are excellent digital tools to help you reach mindfulness and to practice meditation. You can even use smartphone apps, virtual reality solutions and digital devices as a form of relieving stressing and achieving digital detox – as, after a while, you will be able to practice all types of anti-anxiety skills on your own.
During the pandemic many organisations have warned to prepare of the biggest wave of all – a state we called “depidemic” in our related article. A worldwide scale of anxiety, loneliness and fear, assoc...
Source: The Medical Futurist - November 9, 2021 Category: Information Technology Authors: berci.mesko Tags: Health Sensors & Trackers Telemedicine & Smartphones Virtual Reality depression digital health Innovation technology mental health mental wellbeing emotional emotional health stress management anxiety Source Type: blogs
How Can You Improve Your Mental Health With Technology
Technology and mental well-being might seem like profoundly antagonistic terms. However, there are excellent digital tools to help you reach mindfulness and to practice meditation. You can even use smartphone apps, virtual reality solutions and digital devices as a form of relieving stressing and achieving digital detox – as, after a while, you will be able to practice all types of anti-anxiety skills on your own.
During the pandemic many organisations have warned to prepare of the biggest wave of all – a state we called “depidemic” in our related article. A worldwide scale of anxiety, loneliness and fear, assoc...
Source: The Medical Futurist - November 9, 2021 Category: Information Technology Authors: berci.mesko Tags: Health Sensors & Trackers Telemedicine & Smartphones Virtual Reality depression digital health Innovation technology mental health mental wellbeing emotional emotional health stress management anxiety Source Type: blogs
Fight Aging! Newsletter, November 8th 2021
In conclusion, in less common and visible cardiovascular diseases, it is crucial to recognize substantial progress and achievement, given that penetration of such information into clinical practice and the patient community can be inconsistent. Diseases such as hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, pulmonary arterial hypertension, and ATTR cardiac amyloidosis, once linked to a uniformly adverse prognosis, are now associated with the opportunity for patients to experience satisfactory quality of life and extended longevity.
VitaDAO, a Novel Approach to Crowdfunding Life Science Research
https://www.fightaging.org/archiv...
Source: Fight Aging! - November 7, 2021 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Newsletters Source Type: blogs
An Emotional Sign Of Vitamin B12 Deficiency
Good sources of vitamin B12 include low-fat milk, poultry, eggs and fish. (Source: PsyBlog | Psychology Blog)
Source: PsyBlog | Psychology Blog - November 5, 2021 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Jeremy Dean Tags: Nutrition Source Type: blogs
Digital Health Interests Of Pharma Giants Boehringer Ingelheim, Takeda, Astrazeneca, Amgen And Roche
With their extending reaches, resources and influence, pharmaceutical heavyweights have the potential to shape the digital health landscape to line up with their interests. And to have a better picture of where those interests lie, it is worth taking a look at what moves pharma giants are making in this sphere. With this in mind, we started a series of articles focusing on the digital health efforts of 14 global pharma companies.
The first article explored developments coming from Johnson & Johnson, Pfizer, Bayer and Novartis, while the second article investigated those coming from Merck, GlaxoSmithKline, AbbV...
Source: The Medical Futurist - November 4, 2021 Category: Information Technology Authors: Pranavsingh Dhunnoo Tags: TMF Artificial Intelligence in Medicine Digital Health Research Future of Pharma sleep patient empowerment pharmaceutics roche MySugr Astra-Zeneca DTx takeda Boehringer Ingelheim Amgen digitisation Quire.ai Renalytix Eko Source Type: blogs
How to Plan and Carry Out a Simple Self-Experiment, a Single Person Trial of Khavinson Peptides for Thymic Regrowth
The objective here is to produce doses of the peptides dissolved in 0.5 ml of phosphate buffered saline in sealed vials, ready to be used with the injection system, with as little contamination as possible from the environment, and stored a freezer until it is ready to use. Depending on the size of the vial, it might be able to contain doses for multiple injections, but it is better to stick to one dose per vial. Peptides are sensitive to free-thaw cycles, so you want as few of those as possible.
When ordering epitalon, thymogen, and vilon, they will arrive as lyophilized (freeze-dried) crystals or powder. Thymogen ...
Source: Fight Aging! - November 1, 2021 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Self-Experimentation Source Type: blogs
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Teeth: A Short StoryThey aren ’t as hard as you thinkEven diamonds can crackI knocked out the one in frontWhen I was just ten,An incident involving a Huffy bikeAnd an ad hoc ramp madeFrom bricks and a sliver of plywood/sheet metal We didn ’t have enough to get it fixedBack then. I wore a “flipper” for years Which was a pink palate moldMelded with a fake in frontIt was a dicey contraption.I had to take it out when I ate.A couple times at school I had to fish it out Of the dumpster behind the cafeteria,My friend Eric holding me by the ankles.I wore braces for 8 years because We ran out of mo...
Source: Buckeye Surgeon - October 28, 2021 Category: Surgery Authors: Jeffrey Parks MD FACS Source Type: blogs
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Teeth: A Short StoryThey aren ’t as hard as you thinkEven diamonds can crackI knocked out the one in frontWhen I was just ten,An incident involving a Huffy bikeAnd an ad hoc ramp madeFrom bricks and a sliver of plywood/sheet metal We didn ’t have enough to get it fixedBack then. I wore a “flipper” for years Which was a pink palate moldMelded with a fake in frontIt was a dicey contraption.I had to take it out when I ate.A couple times at school I had to fish it out Of the dumpster behind the cafeteria,My friend Eric holding me by the ankles.I wore braces for 8 years because We ran out of mo...
Source: Buckeye Surgeon - October 28, 2021 Category: Surgery Authors: Jeffrey Parks MD FACS Source Type: blogs
The Law of Unintended Consequences
I’m bringing back a Wheat Belly Blog classic from several years ago, updated to today’s sensibilities and context. The creation of high-yield semi-dwarf wheat, intended to feed the world’s hungry, is a perfect illustration of the Law of Unintended Consequences on a massive worldwide scale.
It’s 1961. Jack Kennedy has been inaugurated as President, the Cuban missile crisis dominates headlines, and Hostess cupcakes and Twinkies are the rage in school kid’s lunch boxes.
I was 4 years old, playing with toys on the floor while my mother ironed shirts, Divorce Court droning on the televis...
Source: Wheat Belly Blog - October 12, 2021 Category: Cardiology Authors: Dr. Davis Tags: Open wheat wheat belly Source Type: blogs
Endangered Species and Morality
Randal O'TooleTwo weeks ago, the Fish& Wildlife Service proposed to declare23 endangered species, including theivory ‐billed woodpecker, to be extinct. Since the woodpecker had been sighted as recently as 2006 and many hold out hope that it survives, the agency ’s proposal seems to be more of an attempt to gain support (and funding) for its programs.The bald eagle was in danger of extinction in 1973, when the Endangered Species Act was passed, and now has healthy populations in 49 states. Yet the Endangered Species Act probably was not the primary reason for its recovery.Photo by Andy Morflew.This makes i...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - October 12, 2021 Category: American Health Authors: Randal O ' Toole Source Type: blogs
