Month: February 2017

I was glad to see Valter Longo’s Fasting-Mimicking diet in the news again this week.  I have been enthusiastic about Longo’s work ever since he documented altruistic suicide of yeast cells for his PhD thesis in the 1990s. Programmed death in one-celled protists was considered an affront to evolutionary theory at the time, and he … Read more

A venerable theory of aging is the Mitochondrial Free Radical Theory (MFRTA).  Mitochondria are the energy factories of the cell, where sugar is burned to create electrochemical energy.  Of necessity, the mitochondria use high-energy chemistry, and this creates toxic waste in the form of ROS–pieces of molecules that are too eager to combine with delicate … Read more