Aging is a Military Coup

The military forces of the United States are not to be deployed within the country.  Many people think it’s a clause in the Constitution, but actually it was an afterthought, enacted into law in 1807, strengthened and clarified by the Posse Comitatus Act of 1878. The Founding Fathers reasoned that government is always in danger … Read more

Retrotransposons: The Lamarckian Link

Today’s offering is not directly related to aging, but I’m an evolutionary biologist and these ideas about the fundamental mechanisms of evolution are compelling to me.  I think a deep shift in the foundations of evolution is imminent.  If some of the following is unfamiliar, I hope you’ll find it worth learning about. I came … Read more

Politics Drives a Promising Nutraceutical Underground

The plural of “anecdote” is “data”.  When Anatabloc was taken off the market two years ago, customers bemoaned the loss of the only product they had ever found that relieved their arthritic symptoms.  One of them contacted me through this blog, and told me that before it disappeared, he stockpiled three years’ inventory, which he … Read more