Aging Matters
Thanks to some of my readers who noticed that AgingAdvice.org had disappeared. It is now back online. FMDRecipes.org is also back online. (The site had been hosted by GoogleDrive, and I missed Google’s announcement that they would no longer be supporting public web pages. The page now has a permanent home at Site5.com. The web address remains … Read more
Cold Spring Harbor labs on Long Island has a diverse offering of conferences that attract experts from all areas of biology. For the last six years, there has been a sister group organizing conferences in Suzhou, China. I spent last week at the 2016 CSH Asia conference on Systems Biology. While I have been to … Read more
C. elegans worms live up to 3 weeks, and for the last 2½ weeks, they are post-reproductive, unable to lay fertile eggs because they have run out of sperm to fertilize them. Why do they stop fertilizing their eggs, when sperm is metabolically ‘cheap’? Why has evolution endowed these nematodes with such an extended period … Read more
The advantage of a low-carb diet is that it minimizes insulin spikes that can contribute to loss of insulin sensitivity=metabolic syndrome. The advantage of a low-protein diet is that it offers some of the anti-aging benefits of calorie restriction, and is associated with lower all-cause mortality. Can the two be combined? The low-protein, low-carb diet … Read more