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Metformin & Muscles: Diabetes Drug Pulls A Few Tricks Out Of Its Hat With Some Mysterious Health Benefits

Filed Under: Sex, Meds, Rock n Roll

Metformin & Muscles: Diabetes Drug Pulls A Few Tricks Out Of Its Hat With Some Mysterious Health Benefits
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A 50 Year-Old Drug Is Looking Like Anti-Aging Magic:
What do billionaires have in common with the rest of us?

No, not replacing all humans with robots to increase profit margins to infinity and beyond, silly!

They love money, and they do whatever they can to live as long as possible.

You can bet everything from The Shake-Weight, to blood transfusions, to Bryan Johnson’s exhaustive “Blueprint” and the suspended-animation of The 2045 Project has crossed their desks at one point or another.

When they’re not airlifting hypercars onto mega-yachts, they’re trying crazy health hacks.

Strangely enough, the basis for their new favorite looks like it might be even better than before…

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Aging Vs. Repair & Regeneration Of Muscle: Vampire Researchers Find Young Blood Factor Is The Solution

Filed Under: Aging

Aging Vs. Repair & Regeneration Of Muscle: Vampire Researchers Find Young Blood Factor Is The Solution
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Repairing Aging Muscle Damage With Young Blood Vampire Solution:
We’ve written here before about all kinds of ideas on how to live longer.

From time to time, the scope of those ideas can range wildly.

Whether it’s the crazy Russian immortality 2045 guys, or people as reputable as Salk Institute researchers.

Scientists are starting to look at Aging as a treatable disease.

-To say nothing of the maximization-potential like a type of “steroids for everything” and upgrading to “better-than-stock”, that we might discover after we fix the aging problems.

As some really wacky ancient beliefs would have it,

A lot of that research actually centers around the difference between young and old blood. UPMC’s researchers just found another big piece of that puzzle…

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Elizabeth Bathory Was Right, Part Deux: Sillycon Valley Goes Almost Full-Vampire, Capitalist That-Is

Filed Under: Aging

Elizabeth Bathory Was Right, Part Deux: Sillycon Valley Goes Almost Full-Vampire, Capitalist That-Is
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Why, Gods Of Biochemistry, Why?!!!:
Aging introduces what seem to be a whole host of unfair changes at just about every level of biology.

And depending on your genes & environment, these changes can start becoming noticeable as early as the age of 30.

Unless you’re Elizabeth Bathory, or HealthTrekker’s favorite immortal, Yazemeenah Rossi, these changes can add up fast.

So what do you do if you feel young & you want your body to keep up with your spirit?…

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Video: Remember Ladies, It’s Not Just Your Figure That Needs Exercise. -Your Face Does Too.

Filed Under: Aging, Exercise, Stupid Health Tricks, Video

Video: Remember Ladies, It’s Not Just Your Figure That Needs Exercise. -Your Face Does Too.


 
Are your cheeks & jowls starting to sag? Smile lines starting to show?

Well look no further for your solution!

Because in an awesome throwback from at least the 80’s, we learn at some near Kristen-Wiig-ian-scale silliness…

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Back To The Future Of Health & Medicine: Nat Geo’s BREAKTHROUGH Is 6 Episodes Of Future-Awesome

Filed Under: Bio-Tech, Featured, Highlights, Video

Back To The Future Of Health & Medicine: Nat Geo’s BREAKTHROUGH Is 6 Episodes Of Future-Awesome
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Well, Nat Geo has started putting on a new series, and it’s right in-line with just about everything this site would ever hope to be about. -Just in video format.

It’s on Sundays, 9/8C and we’re already starting to get to the good stuff like, “More Than Human”, “Decoding The Brain”, and “The Age of Aging”.

So, while you’re waiting for the next installment, check out their trippily-animated, Hayden Planetarium-meets-Minority Report-On-LSD website.

A linked-list of the major sections is below, to help you sift through & target the content you’d like to check out…

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The Bionic Man Runs Again! New Hydrogel Could Replace Cartilage

Filed Under: Aging, Better Living Through Chemistry, Bio-Tech, Exercise

The Bionic Man Runs Again! New Hydrogel Could Replace Cartilage
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And on the Running theme, anyone who’s had a joint issue for whatever reason, can attest to how hard it is to get back on your feet.

Well, buck up little camper, Because: Science!

By synthesizing a new combination-gel that unites two different types, that then absorb calcium molecules, scientists at Harvard have come up with what they think might be a pretty good Replacement for Cartilage…

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