Massachusetts Governor's Emergency Order Protects Drug Dealers at the Expense of Hundreds of Life-Saving Small Businesses
In a move that is a huge victory for the state ' s drug dealers, Massachusetts Governor Charlie Baker has instituted a4-month ban on the sale of all vaping products in the state, including both nicotine-containing electronic cigarettes sold at retail stores and vape shops and cannabis vaping products sold at legal cannabis dispensaries. The ban, which was approved by the state Public Health Council on Tuesday, goes into effect immediately and was motivated by the recent emergence of an outbreak of vaping-associated respiratory illness (VARI) that has affected more than530 people across the United States and has resulted in...
Source: The Rest of the Story: Tobacco News Analysis and Commentary - September 25, 2019 Category: Addiction Source Type: blogs
Pieces of the Mysterious Lung Disease Puzzle Starting to Come Together, But CDC Continues to Endanger Health by Hiding the Critical Pieces
The pieces of the puzzle of what is causing the " mysterious " outbreak of acute, severe lung disease among more than 450 people--mostly youth and young adults--are starting to come together. Yesterday, new cases of this illness were reported in at least three states. They were said to be associated with " vaping. " However, if you read the fine print, it turns out that all of these cases were associated with the use of black market THC vaping cartridges.Georgia Public Radio announcedtwo new cases of " vaping-related illness " in the state of Georgia. If you read down further in the article, you ' ll find out that" Both ca...
Source: The Rest of the Story: Tobacco News Analysis and Commentary - September 10, 2019 Category: Addiction Source Type: blogs
A Flood of Irresponsible Actions and Advice on Respiratory Disease Outbreak
There is a wave of irresponsible recommendations and actions that are taking place in response to the outbreak of more than 400 cases of severe, acute respiratory disease and five deaths that have occurred in the United States. Since there are far too many to write an individual commentary on each, I am combining three of the most important examples in this post.1. Dr. Thomas Eissenberg Implies that the Respiratory Disease Outbreak is being Caused by Traditional (nicotine-containing) Electronic CigarettesIn anop-ed piece inThe Guardian entitled " Vaping Is Risky: Do Not Do It If You Care About Your Lungs, " Dr. Thomas Eiss...
Source: The Rest of the Story: Tobacco News Analysis and Commentary - September 8, 2019 Category: Addiction Source Type: blogs
The Most Telling Sign that CDC is Protecting Illicit Marijuana Drug Dealers While Doing Everything it Can to Pin this Outbreak on Traditional E-Cigarettes
It is clear to me that in its investigation of more than 400 cases of acute respiratory failure tied to the vaping of certain products, the CDC is doing everything it can to undermine the proven connection between most of these cases and illicit marijuana vape carts, while exaggerating a potential, but completely unproven connection with traditional electronic cigarettes.This was highlighted last Friday with the complete split between the FDA and CDC with respect to their public communications and warnings regarding the disease outbreak.The CDC is undermining the observed connection between black market THC/CBD oils and th...
Source: The Rest of the Story: Tobacco News Analysis and Commentary - September 8, 2019 Category: Addiction Source Type: blogs
ALERT: Major Breakthrough in Investigation of " Mysterious " Lung Disease Outbreak
There has been a major breakthrough in the investigation of the outbreak of more than 300 cases of a " mysterious " lung disease that the CDC and many other health agencies have told the public is due to the vaping of electronic cigarettes. And now, everything is starting to make some sense.Illicit THC vape carts that were obtained from a number of case patients that were tested in federal and state laboratories havetested positive for vitamin E acetate, an oil that just started to be usedlate last year as a thickening agent in bootleg THC vape carts. Apparently, forevery single case in New York State for which testing is ...
Source: The Rest of the Story: Tobacco News Analysis and Commentary - September 5, 2019 Category: Addiction Source Type: blogs
Avoiding nuts and seeds for better gut health? You shouldn ’t
Nuts and seeds are important components of a healthy diet. But if you have diverticula — little pouchlike structures that sometimes form in the muscular wall of the colon and bulge outward — you may worry about nuts or seeds getting stuck in those little pockets, which can cause a painful infection called diverticulitis.
Take heart. While it was once believed that nut and seed consumption could lead to diverticulitis, the link is unproven.
In fact, quite the opposite is true. Nuts and seeds are rich in fiber, which is important for gut health and keeping you regular.
How much fiber do you need daily? If you’re over 5...
Source: Harvard Health Blog - September 3, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Heidi Godman Tags: Digestive Disorders Healthy Aging Healthy Eating Nutrition Source Type: blogs
Fight Aging! Newsletter, July 22nd 2019
This study elucidates the potential to use mitochondria from different donors (PAMM) to treat UVR stress and possibly other types of damage or metabolic malfunctions in cells, resulting in not only in-vitro but also ex-vivo applications.
Gene Therapy in Mice Alters the Balance of Macrophage Phenotypes to Slow Atherosclerosis Progression
https://www.fightaging.org/archives/2019/07/gene-therapy-in-mice-alters-the-balance-of-macrophage-phenotypes-to-slow-atherosclerosis-progression/
Atherosclerosis causes a sizable fraction of all deaths in our species. It is the generation of fatty deposits in blood vesse...
Source: Fight Aging! - July 21, 2019 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Newsletters Source Type: blogs
Common Dietary Supplements Have Little to No Effect on Mortality
Yet another sizable study has shown that common dietary supplements have little to no effect on late life mortality. This finding of course has to compete with the wall to wall marketing deployed by the supplement market. Researchers have been presenting data on the ineffectiveness of near all supplements of years, but it doesn't seem to reduce the enthusiasm for these products. In the past it was fairly easy to dismiss all supplements as nonsense, or at the very least causing only marginal effects that were in no way comparable to the benefits of exercise and calorie restriction, but matters are now becoming more complex....
Source: Fight Aging! - July 19, 2019 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Daily News Source Type: blogs
FDA curbs unfounded memory supplement claims
I must have seen the commercial for Prevagen 50 times. Perhaps you’ve seen it, too: “You might take something for your heart… your joints… your digestion. So why wouldn’t you take something for the most important part of you… your brain? With an ingredient originally found in jellyfish! Healthier brain, better life!”
Like many heavily-advertised supplements, this one makes many claims. The bottle promises it “improves memory” and “supports: healthy brain function, sharper mind, clearer thinking.” Never mind that the main ingredient in jellyfish (apoaequorin) has no known role in human memory, or that ...
Source: Harvard Health Blog - May 31, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Robert H. Shmerling, MD Tags: Brain and cognitive health Drugs and Supplements Memory Vitamins and supplements Source Type: blogs
5 Quick Tips for Maintaining a Healthy Brain as you Age
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As we know, the brain plays a vital role in the body as it controls or has a role in basically every physiological process. If our brains begin to fail, it affects our whole body. Though aging is an inevitable process, this does not mean that you have to experience cognitive decline or any real loss of brain power.
This because, fortunately, there are lifestyle factors which could enable one to delay...
Source: PickTheBrain | Motivation and Self Improvement - April 10, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: psysci Tags: featured health and fitness self improvement brain health pickthebrain Source Type: blogs
Fatty liver disease: What it is and what to do about it
Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD), a condition of extra fat buildup in the liver, is on the rise — it now affects roughly 20% to 40% of the US population. It usually doesn’t cause any symptoms, and is often first detected by accident when an imaging study (such as an abdominal ultrasound, CT scan, or MRI) is requested for another reason. A fatty liver may also be identified on an imaging test as a part of investigating abnormal liver blood tests. NAFLD is intimately related to conditions like diabetes and obesity. It’s also linked to an increased risk of cardiovascular disease. Understanding NAFLD and its cau...
Source: Harvard Health Blog - January 10, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Wynne Armand, MD Tags: Digestive Disorders Health Source Type: blogs
Fight Aging! Newsletter, December 10th 2018
In conclusion, this is the first report to show that pyroptotic cell death occurs in the aging brain and that the inflammasome can be a viable target to decrease the oxidative stress that occurs as a result of aging.
Reducing Levels of Protein Manufacture Slows Measures of Aging in Nematodes
https://www.fightaging.org/archives/2018/12/reducing-levels-of-protein-manufacture-slows-measures-of-aging-in-nematodes/
Researchers here demonstrate that an antibiotic slows aging in nematode worms, providing evidence for it to work through a reduction in protein synthesis. Beyond a slowing of aging, one of the co...
Source: Fight Aging! - December 9, 2018 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Newsletters Source Type: blogs
All Sorts of Existing Data on Aging is Now Being Connected to Senescent Cells
Throughout the research community, scientists involved in the study of aging, inflammation, and various age-related diseases are retrofitting the present appreciation for senescent cells into their past work. Over the past few years, the scientific community has suddenly awoken to the fact that the accumulation of senescent cells is a significant cause of aging and age-related pathology. This sea change of opinions could, in principle, have happened at pretty much any time in the last 30 years, had resources been better directed within the aging research community. But prior to a decade ago next to nobody in the establishm...
Source: Fight Aging! - December 4, 2018 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Daily News Source Type: blogs
The Starting Five: Vitamins for Improved Health
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“By the proper intakes of vitamins and other nutrients…you can, I believe, extend your life and years of well-being by twenty-five or even thirty-five years,” said Nobel Prize winning scientist Linus Pauling. Modern research has confirmed Pauling’s belief as it has identified five vitamins that may improve overall health.
Vitamin D
Vitamin D provides many important health benefits. It helps to build st...
Source: PickTheBrain | Motivation and Self Improvement - November 9, 2018 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: IndySummers Tags: featured health and fitness pickthebrain self improvement vitamins what vitamins should i take Source Type: blogs
SENS Research Foundation Scientists Plan their First Mouse Studies for Allotopic Expression of Mitochondrial Genes
I notice that the lead researcher on the MitoSENS program at the SENS Research Foundation recently gave an interview at Longecity. This work is focused on the prevention of the mitochondrial contribution to degenerative aging, and has been underway for some years. A separate update at the Life Extension Advocacy Foundation, where a crowdfunding event for MitoSENS was organized back in 2015, notes that progress in this work has continued quietly since the last big announcement, and a transition from cell studies to the first mouse studies for that team lies ahead.
Mitochondria are the power plants of the cell, the de...
Source: Fight Aging! - September 21, 2018 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Healthy Life Extension Community Source Type: blogs
