Mothing stats
One might ostensibly refer to mid-October as the point in the year at which the mothing season is beginning to draw to a close. There are still plenty of autumnal moths to be seen, (various Sallows, Merveil du Jour, Red-line and Yellow-line Quakers, Bricks etc, and then winter moths (Winter Moth, November Moth, December Moth etc) around and a chance of rare migrants but from now on, a cold lighting-up night might give you a blank from here on until mid to late February…it can be a gloomy time for moth-ers, although perhaps not quite as gloomy as it is for the moth-ers we know as butterfliers.
One of several Convolvul...
Source: David Bradley Sciencebase - Songs, Snaps, Science - October 14, 2022 Category: Science Authors: David Bradley Tags: Lepidoptera Source Type: blogs
A Few Years of Difference in Life Expectancy Between Poorest and Wealthiest in Spain
We present sex- and age-specific life tables based on socioeconomic status at the census tract level in Spain during 2011-2013 that will allow estimating cancer relative survival estimates and life expectancy measures by socioeconomic status.
Life expectancy (LE) at birth was higher among women than among men. Women and men in the most deprived census tracts in Spain lived 3.2 and 3.8 years less than their counterparts in the least deprived areas. Overall, we found a consistent LE gap at birth according to socioeconomic status for both sexes in Spain during the 2011-2013 period. However, the gap was wider among men ...
Source: Fight Aging! - October 13, 2022 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Medicine, Biotech, Research Source Type: blogs
How to control hypertension without medications? Cardiology Basics
Non-pharmacological approaches to control hypertension are essential even in those who do need medications for control of hypertension. In those with newly detected mild degrees of hypertension, non-pharmacological methods will be more acceptable and often all that is needed for control of hypertension. Adding non-pharmacological measures to medications, will increase compliance as the individual gets a hope that there is a chance to get off medication.
One simple way to control hypertension is by reducing extra weight. Roughly the blood pressure might come down 1 mm Hg for every kilogram of weight reduction. Generally, a...
Source: Cardiophile MD - October 12, 2022 Category: Cardiology Authors: Johnson Francis Tags: General Cardiology Source Type: blogs
Fight Aging! Newsletter, October 10th 2022
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Source: Fight Aging! - October 9, 2022 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Newsletters Source Type: blogs
Air Pollution Correlates with Risk and Outcome of Stroke
Exposure to air pollution tends to inversely correlate with wealth and socioeconomic status, both of which clearly correlate with health in epidemiological studies. More careful studies of similar populations with differing exposure, and what is known of the biochemistry of tissue interaction with particulate matter, make it reasonable to think that the effects of particulate air pollution on chronic inflammation - and thus pace of development of atherosclerosis - play a role in the comparatively poor health of those people in regions of greater pollution. One of the outcomes of atherosclerosis is stroke, and as noted here...
Source: Fight Aging! - October 7, 2022 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Daily News Source Type: blogs
Challenges of The Journey Toward Menopause – and After
...Challenges of the journey toward menopause – and after:
As estrogen levels continue to drop, many women experience hot flashes, sometimes called hot flashes (some say hot flushes). When they happen at night, these episodes can cause night sweats. When these are frequent, they can be life-altering.
Sometimes, lifestyle changes such as losing weight, not smoking, avoiding alcohol, and relaxation methods such as yoga can help. Your doctor can suggest different approaches and may even prescribe medication for severe cases. Don’t suffer in silence. Speak up and work toward getting relief.
Other health concerns that ca...
Source: Minding Our Elders - October 7, 2022 Category: Geriatrics Authors: Carol Bradley Bursack Source Type: blogs
President Biden Makes an Encouraging Announcement on Marijuana
Jeffrey A. SingerPresident Bidenannounced today that he is pardoning anyone convicted of federal crimes for simple possession of marijuana. The vast majority of such convictions happen at the state level. Therefore, the president asked states to consider pardoning their offenders.He also ordered the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to expedite a review of possibly rescheduling marijuana under theControlled Substances Act (CSA). Under the CSA, the Department of HHS, the Drug Enforcement Administration, or a petition from any interested party can start theprocess of rescheduling or de ‐schedu...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - October 6, 2022 Category: American Health Authors: Jeffrey A. Singer Source Type: blogs
Is the blood pressure same on both arms? Cardiology Basics
Guidelines on hypertension by medical societies generally recommend measurement of blood pressure in both arms in the initial visit. They also suggest that the arm with higher blood pressure recording should be used to record blood pressure in subsequent visits. It is often mentioned that there is a small difference in the blood pressure between the arms and usually it is the right arm blood pressure which is higher.
The origin of brachiocephalic artery is in line with the ascending aorta. It is presumed that the force of ejection of the left ventricle is conveyed more to the right subclavian artery for this reason.
When ...
Source: Cardiophile MD - October 6, 2022 Category: Cardiology Authors: Johnson Francis Tags: General Cardiology Source Type: blogs
Fight Aging! Newsletter, October 3rd 2022
In conclusion, based on the analysis of proteomics and transcriptome, we identified four SRMs that may affect aging and speculated their possible mechanisms, which provides a new target for preventing aging, especially skin aging.
A Popular Science Article on the State of Epigenetic Clocks
https://www.fightaging.org/archives/2022/09/a-popular-science-article-on-the-state-of-epigenetic-clocks/
This popular science article is a good view of the present state of development and use of epigenetic clocks, covering the issues as well as the promise. Epigenetic age can be measured, with many different clocks...
Source: Fight Aging! - October 2, 2022 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Newsletters Source Type: blogs
Prevention and Effective Treatment of Atherosclerosis Should Be a High Priority
Today's open access paper underscores the point that prevention and treatment of atherosclerosis should be a high priority in medical research, development, and practice. It is the single largest cause of death in our species, killing a quarter of humanity directly, and arguably another tenth indirectly. Atherosclerosis is the malfunction of macrophage cells responsible for clearing excess and altered cholesterol from blood vessel walls. The result is the accumulation of fatty lesions, and a tipping point in which the contents of the lesion overwhelm the macrophage cells attempting to remove it, thereafter continually addi...
Source: Fight Aging! - September 28, 2022 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Medicine, Biotech, Research Source Type: blogs
A Popular Science Article on the State of Epigenetic Clocks
This popular science article is a good view of the present state of development and use of epigenetic clocks, covering the issues as well as the promise. Epigenetic age can be measured, with many different clocks using many different combinations of DNA methylation sites on the genome, and greater epigenetic age correlates with greater mortality and risk of age-related disease. What processes of aging actually drive epigenetic age, however? How will epigenetic age change following interventions that target only one or only several of the myriad causes and consequences of aging? Will those changes accurately reflect outcome...
Source: Fight Aging! - September 26, 2022 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Daily News Source Type: blogs
I Had Lunch at the CIA
Ever since reading Michael Ruhlman’s The Making of a Chef in 2007, I’ve wanted to have a meal at the CIA. No, not that CIA, although I hear they do have a half-decent cafeteria. This CIA is the Culinary Institute of America, one of the world’s finest cooking schools, located in Hyde Park, NY.
Long term readers of this blog may recall that it was Ruhlman’s tales of life at the CIA that led me to my first food blog – Butter Pig – whose author Tom Dowdy had written a diary of his own 3 months at the school. Blown away by what I had discovered, I bought the CIA textbook The Professional C...
Source: The Blog That Ate Manhattan - September 23, 2022 Category: Primary Care Authors: Margaret Polaneczky, MD Tags: Restaurant Reviews Bocuse Restaurant CIA Culinary school Hudson valley Hyde Park Restaurants Source Type: blogs
Spanish Sofrito and the Mediterranean Diet
Sofrito topped flatbreads
In the largest study of its kind to date, the Mediterranean Diet has trumped a low fat diet in secondary prevention of cardiovascular disease. The study was conducted in Spain, where participants assigned to the Mediterranean diet received free olive oil. They were also instructed to use sofrito – “a homemade sauce with garlic, onion, aromatic herbs, and tomato slow cooked in olive oil” – in their cooking two or more times a week.
Free Spanish olive oil and Sofrito as a required food group? I’d have moved to Spain to be in that study! But since that never happen...
Source: The Blog That Ate Manhattan - September 18, 2022 Category: Primary Care Authors: Margaret Polaneczky, MD Tags: Vegetables Vegetarian Mediterranean diet SOfrito Source Type: blogs
Fight Aging! Newsletter, September 19th 2022
Conclusion
Use of the Khavinson peptides and melatonin in combination in this way, at this dose, negatively impacts the thymus, producing a reduction in active tissue and increase in atrophy to fatty tissue. The degree to which this atrophy occurred is greater than one would expect to take place over nine months of aging at this stage of life.
Why did this outcome occur, given the animal studies showing thymic regrowth, and the studies showing reduced later life mortality following use of thymogen? We can only speculate. Firstly, the dose makes the poison, and the dosing here may have been too high, too frequ...
Source: Fight Aging! - September 18, 2022 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Newsletters Source Type: blogs
Unhealthy Lifestyle and Childhood Adversity Correlated with Phenotypic Age Acceleration
The epidemiological study noted here makes use of phenotypic age, a simple biomarker-based aging clock. The calculation used to derive a phenotypic age based on common biomarkers can be in the methods section of the paper, for those interested. It is a mortality-related calculation, and a higher phenotypic age is presumed to indicate a greater risk of age-related disease and death. Where phenotypic age is greater than chronological age, this may represent a faster pace of aging in that individual, as is the case for epigenetic clocks and epigenetic age acceleration.
The conclusion reached in the study here is that u...
Source: Fight Aging! - September 16, 2022 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Daily News Source Type: blogs
