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Back To The Future!: Old Drug Provides New Benefits In Fight Against Alzheimer’s

Filed Under: Aging, Better Living Through Chemistry, Disease, Mind/Brain, Sex, Drugs, Rock n Roll

Back To The Future!: Old Drug Provides New Benefits In Fight Against Alzheimer’s
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Retro Approach To New Info Pays Off:
In the field of research, The New rules the roost. What’s old is considered obsolete.

And nowhere is this more obvious than the search for cures to diseases.

Both The How & The Why seem so complex, the Solution must be something supercomputer-complex, & supercomputer-new, also.

Well, in a strange turn of events, an English team took the recent trend of Inflammation being implicated in many diseases, including Alzheimer’s,

And ran with it, back to a 2,000+ year-old fix that looks like the start of a new cure…

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Video: DNews Short; Stay Spicy My Friends! UVM Says Red Hot Chili Peppers May Extend Lifespan + Healthspan

Filed Under: Aging, Disease, Nutrition, Video

Video: DNews Short; Stay Spicy My Friends! UVM Says Red Hot Chili Peppers May Extend Lifespan + Healthspan


 
He Who Controls The Spice, Controls The Universe!:
Attention Sriracha Addicts, Your time has come!

So for at least 6,000 genius years, mankind has been eating peppers of one type or another.

And as any spicy-food addict can tell you, all different kinds can add some zing to just about any food.

Especially Sriracha potato chips!

And it turns out that the spicy, bitey, hot addiction isn’t just a fun little base-jump for your mouth, it could also be Really healthy for you, too…

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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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Move Over, Ted Williams’ Head! -Frankenstein Lives! Doctors Given Permission To Reanimate Dead Brains

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

Move Over, Ted Williams’ Head! -Frankenstein Lives! Doctors Given Permission To Reanimate Dead Brains



What Could Possibly Go Wrong?:
We tend to think that people with a certain level of severe brain injuries or dysfunction are gone & officially Brain Dead.

And though miraculous stories like “Finding Emilie” point to some type of survival even in a “Locked-In” scenario,

Past a certain threshold of function was considered, perhaps for mercy’s sake, the end of the line.

Well, in what just might be some of the most ethically-sketchy experiments not done by world-war totalitarians, a few doctors decided to test that hypothesis.

And they just got approval…

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Watch Out, Elizabeth Bathory! New, Non-Vampire Technique Increases Lifespan By 25 Percent

Filed Under: Aging, Better Living Through Chemistry, Bio-Tech, Sex, Drugs, Rock n Roll

Watch Out, Elizabeth Bathory! New, Non-Vampire Technique Increases Lifespan By 25 Percent
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Blood Is Only Part Of The Solution:
Awhile ago, we told you how our old friend Elizabeth may have really been onto something age-defying in her own dark-ages nutbar kinda way.

Well in a second round of science catching-up, researchers have found another interesting follow-up to that original Bathory hack.

What the Mayo Clinic docs discovered is an interesting Filter-based alternative to simply getting the odd pint from a young person.

-And it all hinges on a type of cell in our body called, Senescent Cells…

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Shot Heard ‘Round The World: New Ebola Vaccine ~100% Effective

Filed Under: Bio-Tech, Disease, News, Noise

Shot Heard ‘Round The World: New Ebola Vaccine ~100% Effective
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[-at least in early trials]
So, forget the miracle cure-stories of the Georgia doctor and the Texas nurse; for now.

A group of medical aid organizations from the United Kingdom, Norway & France made it all possible, crunching a normally years-long process down to 12 months or less to get Merck’s vaccine out there and save at least 4,000+ people.

The bigger takeaway is, if they can do this well, this fast, with something as fearsome as Ebola, can the end of other serious viruses be far behind?…

Wow.

Links:
Guardian UK

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Shot Heard Round The World: Good-Vibrations Innovation Looks Extremely Promising As Alzheimer’s Fix

Filed Under: Bio-Tech, Gadgets, Mind/Brain

Shot Heard Round The World: Good-Vibrations Innovation Looks Extremely Promising As Alzheimer’s Fix
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Researchers at Australia’s Queensland Brain Institute have come up with a novel application of an old tool that might seriously impact the lives of people suffering from one of the worst diseases imaginable; -Alzheimer’s.

“Breakthrough” might even be the word used to describe it.

Though he hasn’t yet discussed the inspiration for what is basically a Physical trick instead of a pharmaceutical one, something lead Dr. Jurgen Gotz & his team to think that of all things, an old ultrasound box could be used on something as fragile as the brain, maybe even as a miraculous cure…

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Alchemy! Researchers Generate Functional Thyroid-Cells From Stem-Cells

Filed Under: Aging, Bio-Tech

Alchemy! Researchers Generate Functional Thyroid-Cells From Stem-Cells
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In the future, thyroid medication and the problems that necessitated it, may be a thing of the past.

Thanks to some groundbreaking work by Sabine Costagliola at the Free University of Brussels, our old friend the Stem Cell has slain yet another dragon.

What Sabine’s team did was to get stem-cells to produce 2 compounds only found in the thyroid.

They then grew these special cells in petri-dishes,…

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