Fight Aging! Newsletter, March 2nd 2020
In conclusion, the recently demonstrated protective effects of NMN treatment on neurovascular function can be attributed to multifaceted sirtuin-mediated anti-aging changes in the neurovascular transcriptome. Our present findings taken together with the results of recent studies using mitochondria-targeted interventions suggest that mitochondrial rejuvenation is a critical mechanism to restore neurovascular health and improve cerebral blood flow in aging.
Wnt/β-Catenin Signaling as a Point of Intervention to Spur Greater Neural Regeneration
https://www.fightaging.org/archives/2020/02/wnt-%ce%b2-catenin-signal...
Source: Fight Aging! - March 1, 2020 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Newsletters Source Type: blogs
Forthcoming Longevity Industry Conferences, March to May 2020
If you are interested in joining or investing in the growing longevity industry, there are now a fair few conferences taking place each year at which it is possible to meet people, get involved, and make inroads on building a network. Since this is still a young industry, it remains a very friendly, close-knit community in which many of the participants have been involved in research or patient advocacy in the aging field for quite some time. Aging research is in many ways still a small field of research in which everyone tends to know everyone else in the inner circles, and the present longevity industry is just the first...
Source: Fight Aging! - February 27, 2020 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Healthy Life Extension Community Source Type: blogs
January is Financial Wellness Month: Here Are 3 Tips To Start The Year Off Financially Strong
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2020 is not only
the start of a new year—it also marks a new decade full of opportunities for
growth, improvement and forward momentum. One specific area in which many
people could stand to improve is financial management. January is Financial
Wellness Month, making it an ideal time to work toward this goal.
Almost 60% of
Americans consider debt to be a major ...
Source: PickTheBrain | Motivation and Self Improvement - January 25, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Erin Falconer Tags: featured money and finance productivity tips self education self-improvement success Uncategorized financial wellness savings self improvement Source Type: blogs
Fight Aging! Newsletter, December 2nd 2019
In conclusion, T2D impairs vascular function by dysregulated autophagy. Therefore, autophagy could be a potential target for overcoming diabetic microvascular complications.
To What Degree Does Loss of Skeletal Muscle with Age Contribute to Immunosenescence?
https://www.fightaging.org/archives/2019/11/to-what-degree-does-loss-of-skeletal-muscle-with-age-contribute-to-immunosenescence/
Sarcopenia, the progressive loss of muscle mass and strength, is characteristic of aging. A perhaps surprisingly large fraction of the losses can be averted by strength training, but there are nonetheless inexorable proces...
Source: Fight Aging! - December 1, 2019 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Newsletters Source Type: blogs
Notes on the 1st Alcor New York Science Symposium
This past weekend, I was in New York City for a meeting organized by Alcor New York, a cryonics community group that is presently seeking to set up a more robust Biostasis Society of New York complete with well-organized standby capacity to help people achieve a successful cryopreservation at the end of life. Setting aside technical issues, the greatest challenge in cryopreservation is the fact the euthanasia, and thus the ability to arrange time of death, remains largely illegal. Hence there must be expensive standby operations, suboptimal deaths that cause significant damage to the brain, and a scramble to ensure rapid c...
Source: Fight Aging! - November 25, 2019 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Healthy Life Extension Community Source Type: blogs
When Politics Meets Genomics In the US
DNA
collection from migrants who cross the US-Mexico border might be put in place
soon, and the information will feed a large criminal database operated by the
FBI, announced
headlines early October. We’ve come a long way
since the first direct-to-consumer (DTC) company, 23andme, started to offer
ancestry DNA testing kits online. It seems as it was decades ago – while in
fact, we’re speaking about 10-12 years. How has DTC genetic testing culminated
in population genomics – and what can we expect in the future to come? In the
second part of our article series about genomics and politics, we’ll try to see
where ‘...
Source: The Medical Futurist - October 19, 2019 Category: Information Technology Authors: nora Tags: Genomics American biotechnology dna testing ethics future genes genetics policy-making politics regulation science US USA Source Type: blogs
Fight Aging! Newsletter, October 7th 2019
In conclusion, our findings link the calcification of the vascular tissue with the expression of FGF23 in the vessels and with the elevation of circulating levels this hormone.
Permanently Boosting Levels of Natural Killer Cells in Mice to Increase Cancer Resistance
https://www.fightaging.org/archives/2019/09/permanently-boosting-levels-of-natural-killer-cells-in-mice-to-increase-cancer-resistance/
Researchers here demonstrate a very interesting approach to immunotherapy: they introduce engineered stem cells in mice that will give rise to additional natural killer T cells, boosting the capability of the...
Source: Fight Aging! - October 6, 2019 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Newsletters Source Type: blogs
Kilimanjaro Can Be Anywhere: How to Forget Excuses and Adopt a Healthy Lifestyle
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It's far too easy to come up with reasons not to embark on an outdoor adventure — or even a simple nature hike. The weather’s bad. There are no mountains nearby. The trails are closed.
But there are a host of reasons those barriers shouldn't stand in our way.
I've always wanted to hike the full John Muir Trail — so much so that I made a pact with the c...
Source: PickTheBrain | Motivation and Self Improvement - October 2, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Munjal Shah Tags: featured health and fitness health tips healthy living hiking Source Type: blogs
Arguing that People are Emotionally Fragile, and thus Should be Prevented from Using Metrics that Correlate with Age
In conclusion, we have not reached the point when it is ethical and scientifically valid to use biomarkers to predict longevity.
Like: https://www.the-scientist.com/news-opinion/opinion--biomarkers-of-longevity-not-ready-for-the-clinic--66497 (Source: Fight Aging!)
Source: Fight Aging! - October 1, 2019 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Daily News Source Type: blogs
Anonymization of Health Data Offers Scant Protection of Identity
I have opined for more than a decade that it's not worth worrying too much about unauthorized access to your personal health and research data because"that horse has already left the barn" (see:On the Privacy of Health Information: The Horse Is Already Out of the Barn). The security of anonymized health data was discussed in a recent blog note in a Q and A with Hank Greely, a Stanford law professor who focuses on the ethics behind new technologies related to neuroscience and genetics (see:Genetic Testing: Who Owns Your Data?). This site is calledBeing Patient. Below is the excerpt from the article...
Source: Lab Soft News - September 17, 2019 Category: Laboratory Medicine Authors: Bruce Friedman Tags: Clinical Lab Industry News Clinical Lab Testing Diagnostics Genomic Testing Healthcare Information Technology Lab Industry Trends Lab Regulation Medical Consumerism Medical Ethics Reference Laboratories Test Kits and Home Testing Source Type: blogs
Health Plan Use Of Wearables Data Will Come With New Challenges
In recent times, health plans have taken an interest in integrating wearables into their wellness efforts. For now, most are sticking to programs which encourage consumers to use them independently, but that could change as insurers find ways to take direct advantage of the monitoring data themselves. Depending on how health insurers handle wearables data, […] (Source: EMR and HIPAA)
Source: EMR and HIPAA - September 13, 2019 Category: Information Technology Authors: Anne Zieger Tags: Ambulatory Analytics/Big Data Clinical EMR-EHR Healthcare IT FItBit Health Insurers Health Plans JAMA John Hancock Life Insurance Wearable Device Data Wearable Devices Wellness Incentives Wellness Programs Source Type: blogs
May “industry review boards” contribute to the wider adoption of virtual and augmented reality for physical and mental health?
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Industry review boards are needed to protect VR user privacy (World Economic Forum blog):
“It seemed like a game when Riley first started the virtual reality (VR) maze … A month after playing the game, Riley was turned down for a new life-insurance policy. Given his excellent health, he couldn’t understand why. Several appeals later, the insurance company disclosed that Riley’s tracking data from the VR maze game revealed behavioral movement patterns often seen among people in the very early stages of dementia … This is a hypothetical situation, but the science of using movements tracked in VR to predi...
Source: SharpBrains - September 11, 2019 Category: Neuroscience Authors: SharpBrains Tags: Cognitive Neuroscience Health & Wellness Technology AR biometric Cognitive-tests dementia FDA institutional review boards insurance IRB movement patterns neurorehabilitation neurotechnologies Neurotechnology privacy virtual Source Type: blogs
Health insurers and physicians are not partners
On the face of it, this seems like a fairly simple business arrangement. My patients or their employers pay money to a health insurance corporation so they, in turn, have sufficient funds available to pay medical claims for services I render. That simple system seems to work for auto, home, and life insurance. First of […]Find jobs at Careers by KevinMD.com. Search thousands of physician, PA, NP, and CRNA jobs now. Learn more. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - August 20, 2019 Category: General Medicine Authors: < span itemprop="author" > < a href="https://www.kevinmd.com/blog/post-author/thomas-stark" rel="tag" > Thomas Stark, MD < /a > < /span > Tags: Physician Practice Management Surgery Source Type: blogs
Well It Is On For One And All Regarding Inappropriate Use Of #myHealthRecord Data Again.
The Australian had a great yarn a day of so ago.Insurers snooping in our health recordsRevelations that the $44 billion life insurance industry still enjoys largely unfettered access to sensitive information comes amid rising consumer concern over the privacy of medical records, centred on the government ’s My Health Record system. Picture: SuppliedMichael Roddan· 12:00AM August 9, 2019Life insurers have trawled through the medical records of 150,000 Australians in an attempt to deny payouts in the 18 months since a parliamentary inquiry called for new restricti...
Source: Australian Health Information Technology - August 13, 2019 Category: Information Technology Authors: Dr David G More MB PhD Source Type: blogs
Hold Off on Trying to Sell Your Personal Information to Web-Based Brokers
A recent op-ed piece in the NYT bySarah Jeong raised the issue of selling one's personal information on the web and made a number of important points (see:Selling Your Private Information Is a Terrible Idea). Below is as excerpt from it:PatientSphere, a platform for health care information, purports to offer patients “the ability to not only share” data on their own terms, “but also get paid for it.”PatientTruth similarly bills itself as a health record system and a way for patients to “own” and “monetize” their health data....All of these apps, platforms and services use blockchain — a technology fir...
Source: Lab Soft News - July 12, 2019 Category: Laboratory Medicine Authors: Bruce Friedman Tags: Electronic Health Record (EHR) Healthcare Information Technology Lab Information Medical Consumerism Medical Ethics Medicolegal Issues Pharmaceutical Industry Source Type: blogs
