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Another Win For Coffee!!! This Time? The Freakin’ Fountain Of Youth

Filed Under: Aging, Disease, Nutrition

Another Win For Coffee!!! This Time? The Freakin’ Fountain Of Youth
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How Can We Boost Lifespan & Healthspan?:
So for a long time now, people have been searching for every way you can think to escape the ravages of aging.

Whether it’s the mystical regimen of Yazemeenah Rossi, Queen of the Silver Foxes,

The Mediterranean Diet, Centenarian-habits, or something as out-there as a “Superfood”, like the Açaí craze a few years back.

Well believe it or not, !SCIENCE! has found one more non-calorie-restriction source for youth-magic.

And it’s probably been sitting in a mug on your desk, saving your life one day at a time…

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Watch Out Blade Runner, Because: !Shot Heard ’Round The World! -Salk Institute Team Reverses Aging

Filed Under: Aging, Bio-Tech, Featured

Watch Out Blade Runner, Because: !Shot Heard ’Round The World! -Salk Institute Team Reverses Aging
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The Fountain Of Youth:
Since the time of the alchemists, the ancient Egyptians, and the epic of Gilgamesh, one of our main goals was to transcend the impermanence of existence.

And in that time, people have tried all kinds of nutty concoctions & medieval procedures to try. (leeches do kinda work, btw)

More recently, the advent of stem-cell science has been joined by another major discovery: the “rewritable” part of our DNA script.

Well, a Salk Institute team combined them with a Nobel-Prize-winning discovery to give Father Time a swift kick in the butt. -Or at least one that lasts a few decades…

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

Filed Under: Aging, Better Living Through Chemistry

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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Vegetarians & Moms Win Again! Green Vegetable Compounds May Stop Time Or Even Reverse It

Filed Under: Aging, Better Living Through Chemistry, Nutrition, Vitamins/Supplements

Vegetarians & Moms Win Again! Green Vegetable Compounds May Stop Time Or Even Reverse It
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Another Win For Veggie Fans!:
So in the eternal war of Vegetarians vs. Carnivores, !SCIENCE! has to concede one new point.

As time goes by our bodies seem to get worse, mostly due to unfair biochemical changes like reduced metabolism, lean mass, and just plain old energy.

Well, researchers are coming again to the rescue, with what looks like another cure to several of them.

And it all hinges on that nagging your good ole’ mum leveled at the dinnertime kids: Eat Your Greens!…

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NatGeo’s BREAKTHROUGH Is 6 Episodes Of Future-Awesome

Filed Under: Better Living Through Chemistry, Bio-Tech, Disease, Featured, Gadgets, Mind/Brain, Other, Video

NatGeo’s BREAKTHROUGH Is 6 Episodes Of Future-Awesome
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Well, NatGeo 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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Gratuitous Immortality-Drug Post: Russian Biochemist Claims Aging Cure; You’ll Find It At Walgreen’s… in 2261

Filed Under: Aging, Noise, Other

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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