Month: October 2015

Roscoff is a picture-perfect coastal town in Brittany.  I have just returned from the first Monod Conference on the Comparative Biology of Aging. The conference was opened by a theoretical lecture by Tom Kirkwood, father of the popular disposable soma theory of aging.  He admonished us that evolution is a mathematical science that yields specific … Read more

Gymnema, Jiaogulan and Berberine: Can herbs replace metformin? We all lose insulin sensitivity with age, and this is is a primary mechanism by which we become more vulnerable to all the diseases of old age.  But there is much that we can do to retain insulin sensitivity: diet, exercise, drugs and herbs.  Because these act … Read more