Aging Matters
Capital shuns risk . —— The essence of science is exploration of the unknown. Science and Capitalism is not exactly a match made in heaven. Government and foundation funding has always been behind the curve of innovation, but the recent contraction in US science funding has engendered an unprecedented intensity of competition. This has translated into … Read more
Aging is very old. Long before there were plants and animals, aging was fully-developed in one-celled eukaryotes and before that in bacteria. This seems strange–almost paradoxical. In fact, for a long while, biologists would have said for aging to exist in bacteria was somewhere beetween “impossible” and “meaningless.” In 1957, George Williams published what has … Read more
Last week, I suggested a do-it-yourself version of Dr Longo’s FMD diet, and offered sample recipes. I want to clarify that this version was not authorized by Dr Longo or his associates at USC. In fact, they have a large team with expertise in different aspects of health, nutrition and aging, and they have developed … Read more
There’s nothing that will help everyone. But there’s probably something that will help you. This is the emerging paradigm of individualized medicine. We are in transition from a past when we looked for “the cure” (antibiotics, vaccines) that would work universally to a future in which blood tests and computer analysis will determine exactly the … Read more