by rss feed | Aug 10, 2025 | aging clocks, anti-aging, DNAmFitAge, Health Flexing, News Feeds, weekly reads
I find it frustrating when longevity influencers claim that aging clocks show they have substantially de-aged themselves. Often by years. A tweet might be: “I ate nothing tasty for a year (or I took this expensive supplement) and now aging clocks show I’m...
by rss feed | Jul 13, 2025 | Autism, Health Flexing, News Feeds, weekly reads
Autism genetics is a fascinating area. Genomic variants certainly play some roles in some forms of the condition, but they haven’t been easy to pin down convincingly. A recent Nature Genetics paper, Decomposition of phenotypic heterogeneity in autism reveals...
by rss feed | Jun 1, 2025 | anti-aging, Health Flexing, News Feeds, Retro Biosciences, senolytics, weekly reads
Longevity research is a growing part of the overall regenerative medicine field. Rewinding, when I first started blogging here on The Niche in 2010, longevity was more of a fringe field. In just 15 years, it has become a generally legit area, even if one often filled...
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...
