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More Longevity Magic! Weightlifting Helps Zombie-Cell Clean Up With Tiny Trash Collectors

Filed Under: Exercise

More Longevity Magic! Weightlifting Helps Zombie-Cell Clean Up With Tiny Trash Collectors
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The Biochemistry Of Weightlifting’s Benefits Is Anything But Simple:

The straw-man. A gross oversimplification. Easy. Cheap. But inaccurate.

That’s how a lot of us deal with some ideas. It’s easier to oversimplify just so we can understand.

But the tradeoff is nuance and sophistication for speed and forward momentum.

And for decades, it seemed as if exercise nuts and gym-rats were just glorified meat-heads.

We also thought the exercise they did was just as one-dimensional. Overachieving for dimwit-narcissists.

But we were all wrong…

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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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Inflammation & Brain Health: Stanford Docs Find Cell-Switch To Reverse Age-Based Cognitive Decline

Filed Under: Mind/Brain

Inflammation & Brain Health: Stanford Docs Find Cell-Switch To Reverse Age-Based Cognitive Decline
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Inflammation’s Effect On Brain Health. Finding The De-Aging Switch:
So we all learned in the Neal Barnard post on diet, that certain foods can work against your brain, but some can work for it, too.

And as time goes by, and we all take our fish oil, we’re finding out that one of Dr. Neal’s minor notes is actually a big deal.

Inflammation.

In that video, he shares a very interesting way to deal with it using diet.

And it turns out that more people might need that help according to a new report on brain health…

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Japanese Herb May Slow Down Aging: I Guess The Samurai Were Immortal After-All

Filed Under: Aging

Japanese Herb May Slow Down Aging: I Guess The Samurai Were Immortal After-All
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Japanese Herb Ashitaba May Slow Down Aging, Ninjas, & Other Problems:
So since the beginning of time, people have been trying to live longer & better.

Many quests including those for Health have been based on some kind of “Holy Grail”.

Repair the damage, cure the big diseases, then live to 100 and beyond.

But what if you’re not an immortal gorgeous Corsican vampire like our pal Yazemeenah Rossi?

Well, SCIENCE! by an Austrian team just found out some folk herbal medicine may be the next step in that quest…

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Zombie Cells And Your Brain: Dementia Symptoms Eliminated With Drano-Like Brain-Cleaner

Filed Under: Highlights, Mind/Brain

Zombie Cells And Your Brain: Dementia Symptoms Eliminated With Drano-Like Brain-Cleaner
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Zombie-Cells Removed From Brains, Dementia Gone. Holy Cortex, Batman!:
So aging presents all kinds of difficulties and reductions in abilities.

And Science doesn’t just ask “Why?”, but also “How can we fix it?”

The question is more stark for neurodegenerative-diseases like Alzheimer’s, where people lose their entire -Selves- as a result.

Recently, one avenue Science explores as a solution to many problems, is the existence of senescent or “Zombie”-cells.

And a research team out of the Mayo Clinic found a way to combine that promising frontier in health, with one of mental-aging’s biggest boogeymen…

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Senescent-Cell Cleanup: Watch Out, Elizabeth Bathory! Non-Vampires Increase Lifespan By 25 Percent!

Filed Under: Aging

Senescent-Cell Cleanup: Watch Out, Elizabeth Bathory! Non-Vampires Increase Lifespan By 25 Percent!
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Senescent Cell Cleanup. 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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