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December 12, 2019: by Bill Sardi
There is no practical way that the toxicity of all of the environmental pollutants that people are exposed to in this modern world can be assessed as a whole. Exposure limits to toxins are established for individual toxins and don’t account for all of the complexities of occupational and non-occupational hazards.
As a troubling report in TOXICOLOGY REPORTS states: “There is no reason today to believe that the single exposure limits on potentially toxic agents that have been established by regulatory agencies are fully protective against serious adverse health effects in all real life exposure scenarios.”
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December 7, 2019: by Bill Sardi
Modern medicine is at it again, attempting to develop an expensive synthetic molecule that will reap billions of dollars of sales when there is a more economical natural molecule that may even work in a superior fashion to a heralded new drug.
Here’s the new option now that researchers believe a recent breakthrough can avert age-related mental decline: (1) wait ten years for completed trials of a synthetic drug that abolishes memory loss which commonly occurs with advancing age; or (2) take resveratrol pills that work by a similar if not stronger mechanism than the aforementioned drug.
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November 21, 2019: by Bill Sardi
With clot-busting aspirin tablets having fallen from grace, heart researchers are now having second thoughts about stents that prop open narrowed or blocked coronary arteries.
For inexplicable reasons, the FDA approves medical devices like stents before they are fully vetted.
With the coronary artery stent business predicted to reach the $8 billion/year mark by 2025, Wall Street maybe ought not to count future profits too fast as a newly published study may have just foiled the marketing plans for these wire props that are placed within coronary arteries where blockages, narrowing or clots occur.
A landmark study conducted by New York University researchers found coronary artery stents may reduce angina chest pain but does not do so any better than blood thinners nor do stents reduce the risk for heart attack or premature death.
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November 7, 2019: by Bill Sardi
Resveratrol, the much dismissed but underused red wine molecule, purported to produce near-miracle cures, yet written off as being non-bioavailable and largely shunned in medical practice, exhibits an unparalleled range of biological activities, such as:
… that also induces a transient gas (nitric oxide) that in turn dilates (widens) constricted blood vessels.
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October 15, 2019: by Bill Sardi
It’s a bit gnawing to watch the vision of America’s senior adults fade as they age due to an incurable and insidiously progressive disease called macular degeneration.
Since macular degeneration is regarded as irreversible, what is needed is a way to maintain eye health rather than treat existing disease, given that it won’t go away once diagnosed.
And it is that objective, to maintain eye health rather than detect, prevent or treat disease that is the exclusive purpose of dietary supplements, a.k.a. nutraceuticals.
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September 16, 2019: by Bill Sardi
A few months ago I penned a report asking Why Isn’t Resveratrol Being Used After Every Heart Attack?” The report revealed stent-happy cardiologists only presume they are saving lives with stents AFTER damage to the heart has already been done.
Resveratrol has been documented to reduce the size of a heart attack (area of scarring, or fibrosis, as cardiologists call it). One lone non-invasive cardiologist even reported a live case where the protective effect could be observed by doctors who for reasons of patient age and fragility could not safely advance a wire into a blocked coronary artery (called balloon angioplasty) and noticed the 90-year old patient who had been taking a resveratrol pill (Longevinex®) experienced no damage to his heart.
For ethical reasons, such an experiment in the animal lab can’t be duplicated in humans.
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September 8, 2019: by Bill Sardi
There is a new leader in anti-aging science and his schooling is not in genetics or biology but rather statistics and mathematics.
Step aside David Sinclair PhD, Harvard Medical School geneticist who in 2004 announced the discovery of the Sirtuin1 gene, which is activated by a lifespan prolong calorie-restricted diet and by resveratrol, a molecule found in red wine, a discovery that explained the French Paradox – why the wine-drinking French have higher cholesterol numbers but far fewer heart attacks than North Americans.
Take a backseat in the lecture hall Leonard Guarente, PhD at MIT who in 2014 introduced a designer niacin-like molecule that also activates the Sirtuin1 survival gene and serves as an anti-aging pill.
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September 5, 2019: by Bill Sardi
It was May of 2017. I was on the telephone explaining to a Washington Post medical reporter that a major scientific breakthrough was about to be announced at an international scientific meeting of eye researchers (ARVO) in nearby Baltimore. The Washington Post had been purchased by Jeff Bezos, Amazon.com chief executive four years earlier in 2013.
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August 16, 2019: by Bill Sardi
In this “aging is optional” era, with many middle-age longevity seekers eyeing the prospect of living 120 healthy years, a newly published study says the possibility of living that long is remote. So, shall longevity seekers throw away their anti-aging pills and save their money?
In a world of “fake news” it is not surprising to learn that the reported number of super-centenarians (110+ years of age) around the world, concentrated in so-called “blue zones” around the globe (Okinawa, Japan; Ikaria in Greece; the isle of Sardinia near Italy), are largely comprised of oldsters with no birth certificates to prove they have lived eleven decades and/or whose families have not reported their deaths in order to maintain delivery of government retirement checks.
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August 5, 2019: by Bill Sardi
Longevity seekers have heard all this before, but we hear more today:
“Anti-Ageing drugs are coming” – New Scientist April 2019; Medical Xpress Sept. 2018
“Longevity and anti-aging research: prime time for an impact on the globe” – Harvard Gazette March 2019
“Healthy To 100?” — San Diego Union Tribune July 2019
You may be alive when the first anti-aging pill is granted approval by health authorities. Or hve one or two already materialized but just dismissed by those who seek to control the anti-aging marketplace? Or will public health authorities ever let an anti-aging pill gain traction?
Anti-aging investigator Josh Mitteldorf says “it may soon be possible to measure changes in the rate of human aging over periods as short as a year or two” instead of the impractical challenge of a lifetime study in humans to produce conclusive evidence.
Don’t hold your breath for the first human trial of an purported anti-aging pill (anti-diabetic drug metformin/Glucophage) is about to begin, and will take 5-7 years to complete. But metformin only increased lifespan in lab animals by 4-6%.
Is the public being set up for disappointment that will dash or delay the approval of more promising anti-aging agents? And given that metformin may induce vitamin deficiencies and other side effects such as chronic diarrhea, I wouldn’t be surprised if the study were sponsored by the makers of Depend® adult diapers.
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