The Perfect Gift!
This holiday season, we are all in search of the perfect gift. What is the one thing you truly desire for yourself and your family? Don’t you think we all want it? What if you were handed a beautifully wrapped box containing a miraculous tool that caused dramatic weight loss and good health without limiting calories or requiring exercise?
What if this gift reduced appetite, shrunk belly fat, and dropped your dress size?
What if that same gift freed you from acid reflux, heartburn, bowel urgency, and diarrhea, but also improved mood, increased energy, deepened sleep, and reduced or eliminated joint pain? And all of this m...
Source: Wheat Belly Blog - November 26, 2021 Category: Cardiology Authors: April Duval Tags: Open Source Type: blogs
Notes on the Recent Longevity Week in London
The yearly Longevity Week events in London are organized by Jim Mellon's network of allies, to promote the longevity industry and the concept of working towards therapies to treat aging as a medical condition. Sadly I could not attend this year, a combination of conflicting events in the US and it being too soon after conferences started up again post-COVID-19 to commit to international travel. Fortunately, one can still find a few notes on the proceedings online, and video of presentations will usually follow.
This week was "Longevity Week" with numerous events organised in the UK on what we now call "geroscience...
Source: Fight Aging! - November 23, 2021 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Daily News Source Type: blogs
Food Intolerances: A Warning of Bad Things Ahead
I’ve recently discussed how the majority of food intolerances, whether to FODMAPs, histamine, nightshades, fructose, etc., are really manifestations of dysbiosis and SIBO. Here is another way to view these phenomena: Food intolerances are your body’s signal to you that serious deterioration in your health is coming.
In other words, if all you do is choose to reduce or eliminate the offending food, you are still left with the massive disruption of your intestinal microbiome that caused the food intolerance in the first place, along with increased intestinal permeability and endotoxemia. So say you eliminate ferm...
Source: Wheat Belly Blog - November 1, 2021 Category: Cardiology Authors: Dr. Davis Tags: Open microbiota prebiotic probiotic sibo small intestinal bacterial super gut undoctored wheat belly Source Type: blogs
Fight Aging! Newsletter, October 25th 2021
This study confirmed that the PSI could be a quantitative index of vascular aging and has potential for use in inferring arterial stiffness with an advantage over the rAIx.
A Profile of Michael Greve and the Segment of the Longevity Industry that He Supports
https://www.fightaging.org/archives/2021/10/a-profile-of-michael-greve-and-the-segment-of-the-longevity-industry-that-he-supports/
Would that the popular media produced more popular science articles about the longevity industry like this one. It is not just a profile of someone trying to make a difference in the world by advancing the state of medic...
Source: Fight Aging! - October 24, 2021 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Newsletters Source Type: blogs
ELMO1 Inhibition as a Basis for Osteoporosis Therapies
Osteoporosis is the name given to the characteristic loss of bone mass and strength that takes place with age. Bone is constantly remodeled, and this condition is the consequence of a growing imbalance between the activity of osteoclasts, responsible for breaking down bone, and osteoblasts, responsible for building bone. Researchers here make the observation that osteoclasts perform functions related to bone construction even as they break down bone, meaning that therapies intended to limit osteoclast populations may not work as well as hoped. Instead, specifically dialing back only the breakdown of bone tissue by altering...
Source: Fight Aging! - October 21, 2021 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Daily News Source Type: blogs
Thought experiment: Would therapists be out of a job if we could “ fix ” persistent pain?
Every few years someone, somewhere, announces that “it won’t be long before we have a treatment to rid the world of persistent pain.” And there’s a hiss and roar to celebrate this momentous finding, and much ado about how wonderful it will be.
I’m still waiting. BUT I thought it might be an interesting thought experiment to wonder what might happen if a “cure” was available for fibromyalgia.
As readers will know, I have lived with what eventually was named “fibromyalgia” since my early 20’s, and probably longer. I’ve dabbled in various treatments ove...
Source: HealthSkills Weblog - October 10, 2021 Category: Anesthesiology Authors: BronnieLennoxThompson Tags: Chronic pain Pain conditions Professional topics Research Science in practice biopsychosocial pain management Therapeutic approaches Source Type: blogs
Caregiving During Middle Age Inspired Author to Start Foundation to Help Caregivers
When people think about caregiving spouses, they often think of older adults. We only have to look at a young mother diagnosed with multiple sclerosis (MS), a young husband diagnosed with rheumatoid arthritis (RA), or in this case, a woman whose healthy husband had a sudden, massive stroke, to know differently. Kathi Koll, author of “Kick-Ass Kinda Girl: A Memoir of Life, Love, and Caregiving” knows the drill. She and her husband, Don, lived a life of glitz and glamour, working and playing alongside friends who were celebrities and politicians...
Continue reading on HealthCentral for more about Kathi Koll's foundation:...
Source: Minding Our Elders - October 8, 2021 Category: Geriatrics Authors: Carol Bradley Bursack Source Type: blogs
Future Treatment For Autoimmune Diseases
New digital health tech targeted to fight autoimmune diseases or their symptoms are diverse and creative. These often completely different illnesses, like type 1 diabetes, inflammatory bowel disease, rheumatoid arthritis, and multiple sclerosis, indicate an immune system dysfunction. Immune cells and mechanisms target the body’s own cells and structures, deconstructing it bit by bit and inducing inflammation.
An estimated 24-50 million people in the US alone are living with autoimmune conditions. It affects their day-to-day life, but scientists suggest people living with chronic conditions could also be more suscepti...
Source: The Medical Futurist - July 29, 2021 Category: Information Technology Authors: szandra Tags: Biotechnology Future of Medicine Portable Medical Diagnostics Telemedicine & Smartphones chatbot diabetes digital health sleep optimization chronic pain chronic illness skin coronavirus autoimmune disease Source Type: blogs
Fight Aging! Newsletter, July 19th 2021
In this study, we developed the first epigenetic clock for domesticated sheep (Ovis aries), which can predict chronological age with a median absolute error of 5.1 months. We have discovered that castrated male sheep have a decelerated aging rate compared to intact males, mediated at least in part by the removal of androgens.
Furthermore, we identified several androgen-sensitive CpG dinucleotides that become progressively hypomethylated with age in intact males, but remain stable in castrated males and females. Comparable sex-specific methylation differences in MKLN1 also exist in bat skin and a range of mouse tissu...
Source: Fight Aging! - July 18, 2021 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Newsletters Source Type: blogs
Dihomo- γ-linoleic Acid as a Basis for Senolytic Therapy
This interview with a researcher working on the biochemistry of senescent cells notes the exploration of dihomo-γ-linoleic acid and derived compounds as potential senotherapeutics, capable of reducing the burden of senescent cells in old animals. At the end of the day there will be a very large number of such approaches, as the animal data for rejuvenation resulting from the clearance of senescent cells is impressive enough to drive a considerable growth in funding and interest. A sizable number of biotech companies are working on drugs to selectively destroy senescent cells, and many more programs are in earlier stages i...
Source: Fight Aging! - July 14, 2021 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Daily News Source Type: blogs
3D Printing in Medicine And Healthcare – The Ultimate List In 2021
3D printing has demonstrated huge potential for the future of medicine in the previous years, and its development is unstoppable. Just look at the impressive list of 3D printed healthcare materials and medical equipment below!
How does 3D printing in medicine work?
3D printing in medicine is part of the innovative process called additive manufacturing, which means producing three-dimensional solid objects from a digital file. How the technology works, we explained the technology in our article on bioprinting here.
As technology evolves, researchers work on various solutions. For example, engineers from the University of B...
Source: The Medical Futurist - July 13, 2021 Category: Information Technology Authors: berci.mesko Tags: 3D Printing Biotechnology Future of Medicine Healthcare Design Medical Education Personalized Medicine bioprinting Innovation Video GC1 3d printed biomaterial tissue engineering Source Type: blogs
Fight Aging! Newsletter, April 26th 2021
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Longevity Industry Consulting Services
Reason, the founder of Fight Aging! and Repair Biotechnologies, offers strategic consulting services to investors, entrepreneurs, and others interested in the longevity industry and its complexities. To find out m...
Source: Fight Aging! - April 25, 2021 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Newsletters Source Type: blogs
A Nanomaterial Incorporating TNF Epitopes Reduces Inflammation
The inflammatory cytokine TNF is the target of many efforts to find ways to reduce inflammation in conditions characterized by excessive inflammatory activity of the immune system, such as autoimmune diseases. It is a blunt approach, as it reduces not only inappropriate activity, but also the needed activity of the immune system, such as defense against pathogens and destruction of potentially cancerous and senescent cells. The methods of targeting TNF are becoming ever more sophisticated, as this example demonstrates. It is nonetheless the case that better and different classes of treatment will be needed in order to avoi...
Source: Fight Aging! - April 22, 2021 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Daily News Source Type: blogs
Acute aortic regurgitation
Clinical scenario of acute aortic regurgitation is quite different from familiar finding in chronic aortic regurgitation. Due to the atypical findings, it may be difficult to diagnose acute aortic regurgitation. All the same, it is not a stable condition like chronic aortic regurgitation. Acute regurgitation can rapidly progress to heart failure and early mortality if left untreated.
Important causes of acute aortic regurgitation are infective endocarditis, aortic dissection, and rarely trauma [1]. Rare causes reported are necrotizing granulomatous inflammation of the aortic valve in rheumatoid arthritis [2] and avulsion...
Source: Cardiophile MD - April 13, 2021 Category: Cardiology Authors: Prof. Dr. Johnson Francis Tags: Cardiology Source Type: blogs
Why Journaling as a Practice is the Best Gift You Can Give Yourself
Fill your paper, with the breathings of your heart'- William Wordsworth.
I had made a new pal over the last few years. She's resilient against stress, cheap, accommodating, trusting, and takes my nasties all the time. She's ready to be my punching bag, therapist, friend, and priest all rolled in one. She has no judgment or opinion and accepts me as I am, the good, bad, and ugly- and that, friends, is my Penzu app. The first time I heard about it, I knew I reached kingdom come. It is an online diary journal with dates and is free for the most part. In Penzu, I write my deepest darkest thoughts and fe...
Source: PickTheBrain | Motivation and Self Improvement - April 1, 2021 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Lana Tags: creativity featured happiness self-improvement writing tips Source Type: blogs
