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December 11, 2016: by Bill Sardi
Modern medicine is getting into the soothsayer business. Various technologies now make it possible to foresee the health future of an individual and predict with some certainty which maladies may befall a person years before symptoms or signs become apparent.
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August 12, 2016: by Bill Sardi
Remember the movie “Ghostbusters” where actors Dan Aykroyd and Bill Murray captured ghosts with magic wands? Well that is the imagined scenario where “Age Busters” burst into nursing homes with fire extinguishers to spray resveratrol everywhere, resulting in many residents breaking free and escaping their drug-induced stupors to live the rest of their lives uninstitutionalized.
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May 21, 2016: by Bill Sardi
Is there a phenomenon in biology that can bring back people from the dead? Well, yes, since a person may stop breathing and their heart may stop pumping, but brain or heart muscle damage may not be experienced until later when oxygen supply is restored and toxic oxygen free radicals generated. In medicine this is called reperfusion injury.
In the interim when a subject may appear to be dead, when tissues are totally or partially deprived of oxygen (anoxia or hypoxia), pre-event activation of powerful internal antioxidants may avert heart and brain damage and the patient is revived.
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February 2, 2015: by Bill Sardi
Delivered at the Sixtieth Annual Awards Dinner, National Health Federation
Woodland Hills, California, January 31, 2015
Public speaking coaches suggest you size up your audience before you deliver a speech. I’m told there are three ways to segment an audience; those who already embrace what I have to say; those who stand in the middle and need further convincing and those who oppose or disagree with what I have to say. I’m told those who oppose or disagree will not move all the way to embracing my thoughts, that the best I can expect is for them to move towards the middle and those in the middle move towards what I am going to suggest here tonight.
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December 29, 2014: by Bill Sardi
2014 was another year of great promise and inexcusable dawdling by the research community as well as intentional disparagement of what may be the most profound health and longevity molecule ever discovered — resveratrol. Strikingly, there are no human clinical trials for resveratrol for heart disease or cancer, two of its most promising applications. For now, lab rats will be the primary beneficiaries of this remarkable molecule.
One thing is for sure, the research community isn’t taking its foot off the pedal – just over one thousand published studies, commentaries and reviews about resveratrol were posted at the National Library of Medicine this year. That is out of a pool of 7000 published reports dating back to 1978. [PubMed.gov Accessed 12/18/2014]
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September 17, 2014: by Bill Sardi
A disturbing study in the journal Ophthalmology, a publication of the American Academy of Ophthalmology, is likely to turn attempts to prevent and treat macular degeneration with dietary supplements upside down. The report is likely to cause dismay and confusion among patients with the disease who have been faithfully taking mineral or antioxidant formulas to delay visual decline. [Ophthalmology Sept 4, 2014]
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September 12, 2014: by Bill Sardi
Hold your breath one more time before we put any new discovery into practice that could dramatically increase the human healthspan and lifespan. The latest study shows that activation of a gene that controls cell energy in key organs slows aging throughout the body and increases the lifespan of fruit flies by 30%. [UCLA Newsroom Sept 8, 2014] That is equivalent to adding another 20 healthy years to the human lifespan if this science is applicable to humans (and it is!).
The medical and biological research community is piling up libraries of breakthrough basic research but putting the brakes on applied science. Almost every research paper involving longevity ends with the demand that more research needs to be done before proceeding ahead. Why not activate the same gene in humans that was activated in fruit flies and figure out all the biological mechanisms later? You can enter the heavenly state of enduring health and longevity but not before the high priests of biology say so. The latest breakthrough in biology is an example.
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September 4, 2014: by Bill Sardi
I’ve written twice at ResveratrolNews.com about the idea of taking telomere-lengthening pills in hopes of achieving biological immortality, or at least living far longer. Telomeres are caps at the end of bundles of chromosomes. Telomeres shorten with advancing age which leads to instability of the entire genome (library of genes).
My first report in 2010 presented some pros and cons but summarily concluded that telomere-lengthening pills were not ready for prime time. [ResveratrolNews.com Oct 28, 2010]
Questions about taking telomere-lengthening pills continue to be received by this journalist. Regardless of the unconvincing science, telomere modification continues to fascinate longevity seekers.
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August 3, 2014: by Bill Sardi
People who have long-lived parents and grandparents often believe they will live exceptionally long too due to inherited longevity. And now there is evidence for that, but not from the classic inheritability we were likely taught in college biology class.
This report deals with two biological terms: genotypes and phenotypes. The genotype is the genetic makeup of an individual and is usually used to explain a particular trait. When that particular trait is expressed or materializes, then that is known as the phenotype.
What we inherit are two sets of genetic information. The first are the better-known inherited traits that emanate from sequences of what are called nucleotides (adenine, guanine, cytosine, thymine amino acids) on the DNA ladder. An example of a phenotype is hair color or blood type.
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May 15, 2014: by Bill Sardi
A gene protein called KLOTHO is being hailed as the new fountain of youth today. KLOTHO gene protein boosts brain skills (thinking, learning, memory), elevating IQ by six points regardless of the age of the person.
According to the news report [Daily Mail UK, May 11, 2014], among 700 subjects age 52-85 years of age, those with an inherited form of the KLOTHO gene called KLOTHO-VS performed better on mental tests. There is less KLOTHO gene protein in the aged brain. [Future Medicinal Chemistry, Sept 2012]
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