Can Baby Foot really make your feet smoother? Episode 152
How does baby foot work?
Leslie asks…Can you please explain how Babyfoot works and if it is truly safe to use. I have used it and my feet did peel but I really don’t understand how it works.
In case our listeners aren’t familiar with this product, it’s a special type of exfoliator designed just for your feet. For $25 you get two “booties” lined with a gel product.
Here’s what the website says about it:
Our scientifically formulated product contains 17 types of natural extracts…
The principal ingredient …is fruit acid which…penetrates into the layers of dead skin cells and breaks down the desmosome...
Source: thebeautybrains.com - September 27, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Perry Romanowski Tags: Podcast Source Type: blogs
How does Tresemme Beauty-Full Volume Reverse Wash haircare system work? Episode 151
This study published in the Journal of Clinical Oncology says that citrus products contain psoralens and fur-O-coumarins which can stimulate certain cancers when they’re exposed to light. The study looked at the diets of over 100,000 people over the course of 4 years. After controlling for other factors, the melanoma risk was found to by 36% higher in people who ate citrus fruits more than 1.5 times per day. So I’m sure it won’t be long before some enterprising beauty company starts selling sunscreen in the produce aisle of the grocery store.
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Source: thebeautybrains.com - September 20, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Randy Schueller Tags: Podcast Source Type: blogs
Is Charlotte Tilbury Multi-Miracle cream really miraculous? Episode 149
Is Charlotte Tilbury Multi-miracle cream really worth it?
Jo asks…I love Charlotte Tilbury’s Multi-Miracle Glow product but I’m afraid I spent too much and I worry that it really provides any benefits. Can you tell me if it has any special properties and if not is there a more budget conscious version?
Thanks for the question, Jo. It sounds like you’re really torn about using this product so let’s see if we can help.
First of all, don’t be confused if you decide to look for this product because in addition to Mult-miracle glow she also sells a “Magic Cream.” Apparently Charlotte went to the “Harry Po...
Source: thebeautybrains.com - September 6, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Randy Schueller Tags: Podcast Source Type: blogs
Nampt Overexpression Reduces Age-Related Loss of Exercise Capacity in Mice
NAD, nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide, plays a central role in energy metabolism, and of late has attracted more attention from researchers who aim to modestly slow aging by adjusting the operation of metabolism. Tinkering with NAD levels though any number of different ways appears to produce some benefits in mice, but these are not sizable outcomes. Essentially this looks only incrementally better for normal animals than the marginal results produced for many forms of dietary supplementation in mouse studies.
Researchers examined the role of NAD precursor molecules on mitochondria by specifically disrupting the ...
Source: Fight Aging! - August 10, 2016 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Daily News Source Type: blogs
Fight Aging! Newsletter, July 25th 2016
This study builds on preliminary findings from the first phase of the INTERSTROKE study, which identified ten modifiable risk factors for stroke in 6,000 participants from 22 countries. The full-scale INTERSTROKE study included an additional 20,000 individuals from 32 countries in Europe, Asia, America, Africa and Australia, and sought to identify the main causes of stroke in diverse populations, young and old, men and women, and within subtypes of stroke.
To estimate the proportion of strokes caused by specific risk factors, the investigators calculated the population attributable risk for each factor (PAR; an esti...
Source: Fight Aging! - July 24, 2016 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Newsletters Source Type: blogs
Aubrey de Grey AMA at /r/Futurology: the SENS Approach to Cancer and More
Today, July 19th, Aubrey de Grey of the SENS Research Foundation and Haroldo Silva, lead SENS cancer researcher, are hosting an AMA - Ask Me Anything - event at /r/futurology. They will be there for a few hours to answer questions on rejuvenation research, fundraising for work on aging and cancer, and other aspects of the work of the SENS Research Foundation. This is a chance to ask about the SENS approach to a universal cancer therapy, one that targets the common mechanism of telomere lengthening that all cancers must employ to grow. The SENS researchers are focused on alternative lengthening of telomeres, ALT, a collecti...
Source: Fight Aging! - July 19, 2016 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Activism, Advocacy and Education Source Type: blogs
Fight Aging! Newsletter, July 11th 2016
In conclusion, hTERT expression strictly limits telomerase activation in most of somatic cells, whereas mTERT expression is detectable in most of mouse tissue cells. The interspecies differences between human and mice suggest an improved mouse line, in which both telomerase regulation and telomere length controls are humanized, would considerably benefit the studies of human aging and cancer using mouse models.
ON CELLULAR REPROGRAMMING AND CELLULAR REJUVENATION
https://www.fightaging.org/archives/2016/07/on-cellular-reprogramming-and-cellular-rejuvenation/
The commentary linked below takes a look at some re...
Source: Fight Aging! - July 10, 2016 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Newsletters Source Type: blogs
An Educational Article on the Business of Selling Nicotinamide Riboside
Readers here probably recall the hype surrounding sirtuins in cellular metabolism, followed by the breathless marketing of compounds supposed to affect their expression such as resveratrol, all of which went to the usual destination for such things, which is to say nowhere. Some knowledge was added to the grand map of mammalian biochemistry, some people were fleeced, some people made a bunch of money on the backs of promises that never materialized, and that was that. This happens over and again. Every time a new link is uncovered in the complex chain of protein machinery relating to cellular repair mechanisms, upregulated...
Source: Fight Aging! - July 7, 2016 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Of Interest Source Type: blogs
Fight Aging! Newsletter, May 2nd 2016
This study is the first CAR T-cell trial to infuse patients with an even mixture of two types of T cells (helper and killer cells, which work together to kill cancer). With the assurance that each patient gets the same mixture of cells, the researchers were able to come to conclusions about the effects of administering different doses of cells.
In 27 of 29 participants whose responses were evaluated a few weeks after the infusion, a high-sensitivity test could detect no trace of their cancer in their bone marrow. The CAR T cells eliminated cancers anywhere in the body they appeared. Of the two participants who did n...
Source: Fight Aging! - May 1, 2016 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Newsletters Source Type: blogs
A Recent Study of Nicotinamide Riboside Supplementation
Here I'll point out a recent study on nicotinamide riboside supplementation in mice. This is a way to increase levels of nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide (NAD), an important player in many aspects of cellular metabolism, particularly mitochondrial function and everything associated with it. Mitochondria are known to be important in aging, either through a decline in their primary function of producing energy stores to power cellular activities, or in the damage they suffer that leads to malfunctioning forms of this cellular component.
Thus far, based on work from the past few years, inducing raised levels of the ch...
Source: Fight Aging! - April 29, 2016 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Daily News Source Type: blogs
FDA Ends Niacin and Fenofibric Acid Combinations With Statins
–“In the absence of benefits, there remain only harms.” The FDA is putting an end to the combined use of statins with two once-popular lipid drugs, niacin and fenofibric acid. On Monday the FDA will announce in the Federal Register that it is withdrawing its approval for indications for coadministration of these drugs with statins...Click here to continue reading... (Source: CardioBrief)
Source: CardioBrief - April 18, 2016 Category: Cardiology Authors: Larry Husten Tags: People, Places & Events Policy & Ethics Prevention, Epidemiology & Outcomes fabric acid FDA fibrates lipid drugs niacin statins Source Type: blogs
Lifespan.io Project: Help to Crowdfund the Sinclair Lab NMN Calorie Restriction Mimetic Lifespan Study in Mice
The Lifespan.io crew have launched their latest longevity science crowdfunding project in partnership with the Sinclair lab at Harvard: the goal is to raise funds for a novel calorie restriction mimetic mouse life span study based on research published last year. You might recall that David Sinclair was the researcher behind Sirtris, one of the more hyped initiatives in sirtuin research, though far from the only one. Over the past twenty years a lot of work has gone into trying to understand the activities of proteins and pathways thought to be important in the extended longevity produced by calorie restriction in short-li...
Source: Fight Aging! - February 26, 2016 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Activism, Advocacy and Education Source Type: blogs
Wheat Watch: Greenies
Here’s a post aimed at our canine and feline friends.
“Greenies: The #1 Vet-Recommended Dental Chews and Treats.” That’s what the people who manufacture Greenies dental chews for dogs and cats claim.
But, for those of you trying to keep your dog or cat wheat- and grain-free, Greenies dental chews, purported to clean their teeth, are filled with wheat and rice, among their top ingredients:
Ingredients in Dog chews:
Wheat flour, wheat protein isolate, glycerin, gelatin, oat fiber, water, lecithin, natural poultry flavor, minerals (dicalcium phosphate, calcium carbonate, potassium chloride, magnesiu...
Source: Wheat Belly Blog - December 2, 2015 Category: Cardiology Authors: Dr. Davis Tags: Wheat Belly Lifestyle dental decay gluten grains rice Source Type: blogs
Energy-Carrying Molecules to Boost Aging Mitochondria?
Here I'll point out the latest in the Question of the Month series from the SENS Research Foundation, in which the staff are far more polite than I regarding the unmerited hype that seems to accompany both supplement research in general and research emerging from the Sinclair lab at Harvard in specific:
Q: In recent months, I've seen quite a lot of promotional material for a dietary supplement called nicotinamide riboside (NR). The companies involved say that Harvard researchers showed that this supplement restores mitochondrial function in the cells of aging mice, completely reversing the aging process in muscles. Some o...
Source: Fight Aging! - November 24, 2015 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Daily News Source Type: blogs
How do color correcting conditioners work? Episode 88
We’ve been nominated for one of Marie Claire’s “Most Wanted Beauty Awards.”
Click here now to vote for the Beauty Brains!
Listen to the podcast for this week’s question and answer session. Plus, another game of Improbable Products!
How do color correcting conditioners work?
Audrey asks…How do color correcting conditioners work?
Color correcting conditioners work two ways: For darker hair they contain a red or brown dye that will provide a little staining effect. For blonde shades they contain a purple dye known as D&C Violet # 2. The purple dye cancels out some of the brassiness and ...
Source: thebeautybrains.com - June 23, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Randy SchuellerDiscover the beauty and cosmetic products you should use and avoid Source Type: blogs
