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Eternal Sunshine of The Spotless Banana: Memory Loss Un-Lossed In Monkeys. -De-Stressed, Cheekier, Roger Moore-ier Monkeys InDaHouse!
… wait; -what the hell was I; -dammit, I JUST had it!
erm, Okay what was I just talking about? It was right before we;
Ever had that? –Then you have a lot in-common with our closest genetic relatives in the animal kingdom.
Even monkeys get the blues start feeling that “slipped my mind” -thing as age goes on. -Mostly written-down to a decline in working-memory…
This Just In: Dolphins Are Awesome. Surprisingly Like Wolverine -Us Next?
In an interesting interspecies twist,
that is mercifully not NSFW,
Dr. Michael Zasloff shares his observations about our funny, wake-surfing friends in a letter to the JID, hoping that some day maybe we can gain abilities similar to them.
Nope; their miraculous ability to…
PLEASE! -LADIES!!! If Not For Me, For The Sake Of Shocked-Face E*Trade Baby, –Eat Live Organic During Pregnancy!
Three studies on pre-natal exposure to chemicals were published at the same time by Researchers at UC Berkeley, Mt. Sinai and Columbia in the Journal, “Environmental Health Perspectives”.
They concerned both City-dweller and Country-dweller subjects.
And it looks bad for babies.
It turns out if a pregnant mother is exposed to Organo-Phosphate pesticides; -at-all, either through Environmental exposure, OR through Diet, it affects the developing fetus.
This impact took a toll of up to…
Read More >RESET: Double Your Lifespan! -Just Get Used To Feeling Yeasty
For a long long time, scientists have known what Aging is, as expressed only in terms of what it is to look like Mr. Bigglesworth.
BUT NOW!
-In a set of interesting experiments that take a new approach, MIT biologists studied the only thing simpler than Courtney Stodden.
-No, not amoebas; -close. Yeast.
And they found something interesting. Again, similar to the NMJ post, part of the Yeast cell near the nucleus that makes proteins just “looked old”.
Read More >Magic Anti-Aging Cure: Just Smile
Ok, a little bit of a jump from there to the idea of “Guaranteed” Life-Extension. -maybe.
But according to Abel & Kruger, a study of baseball players from 1952 shows that the ones smiling in the group photos outlived their teammates by 7 years!…
Gratuitous Immortality-Drug Post: Russian Biochemist Claims Aging Cure; You’ll Find It At Walgreen’s… in 2261
-But it actually turned out in trials only to make a higher percentage of the lab animals reach old age.
None of them lived any longer than bog-standard-mouse-duration. Oh, Well.
Yes, Dr. Skulkachev has the obligatory “I experimented on myself and Look! -It works!”-story about his cataract.
The guy even gets a major hat tip from an Actual Nobel Laureate; -in Medicine, the Awesome-Hairdo-Sporting Dr. Gunter Blobel…
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