by rss feed | Mar 10, 2024 | Altos Labs, anti-aging, David Sinclair, News Feeds, Pura Munoz-Canoves, weekly reads
Anti-aging might already be the big regenerative medicine story of 2024 and it’s only early March. Anti-aging hype going to the dogs? One of my 20 stem cell and regenerative medicine predictions for 2024 was that longevity would continue to make big news...
by rss feed | Feb 28, 2024 | anti-aging, News Feeds
Would you guess that Elon Musk might be into using biotechnology in a high-profile way to try to live far longer than usual, say to age 150? That would have been my assumption. There are countless things about Elon Musk that I really don’t like. I also...
by rss feed | Feb 18, 2024 | anti-aging, brain aging, News Feeds, weekly reads
What happens during brain aging and how can we tell if dementia is coming? Are there particular early hallmarks? There are an increasing number of medical tests for predicting or detecting dementia. Alzheimer’s disease can often be detected early. But what do...
by rss feed | Dec 7, 2023 | anti-aging, DIY gene therapy, News Feeds, senolytics
Can you paradoxically kill yourself early by trying to cheat Death? For example, die through risky anti-aging approaches? The question came to mind because such longevity efforts have become more extreme. They also get more hype in the media. I’ve been following...
by rss feed | Oct 26, 2023 | anti-aging, biological age, Fact-check, Health Flexing, News Feeds, telomere length testing
We all know people who seem far younger than their age, which feeds into the idea of biological age. It’s often in the news these days and all over social media. Some people who are fighting high-profile battles with aging are also doing something I call...
by rss feed | Aug 16, 2023 | anti-aging, epigenetic clock, News Feeds, Steve Horvath
I’ve been thinking more about the steady stream of epigenetic clock research out there. How convincing is the research on such clocks? Do they tightly relate to human biological age? The related notion of turning back such hypothetical clocks to reverse aging...
