Living To 150

This is a great ebook which does a good job of explaining where we are today with regard to healthy anti-aging strategies.
Best of all – it is completely free. David Kekich is doing all he can to publicize anti-aging, so is giving this book away. It’s a chunky tome – and packed full of information.
It [...]

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Gosh – I’d like to go to this – the Manhattan Beach Project, Los Angeles. It’s the conference I wanted to go to when I went to Convergence08 last November: because this on is focused specifically on longevity.
The field of longevity research is getting very exciting now. Aubrey de Grey is quoted as thinking there [...]

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In June this year, the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine approved $60m worth of funding to fund 15 grants aimed at moving some of the stunning results from stem cells from the lab to clinical practice.
The pace of progress with stem cell research means that results can progress from project conception to clinic use in [...]

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My main aim is to live to 150 – at least to start off with.
(It’s said that the first person who will still be healthy at 200 is already living.)
So with that aim in mind I need to prepare myself for my trip to Denver, Colorado to see Terry Grossman, in July 2009.
What [...]

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The latest "Statins Beat Heart Attack" headlines would be wryly funny if they weren’t so tragic.
Short sighted journalists are fooled by profit-hungry drug companies who, as often seems to be the case, are driving partisan research chemists.
"Statins Reduce Heart Attacks"
This is not news, and it is not even surprising. Anything which reduces general inflammation [...]

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My blood pressure is down. Not that it has ever been worryingly high; on the rare occasions I have taken it, it’s been around 125/85. That is pretty good.
A friend has hypertension, so I bought a blood pressure monitor to keep an eye on it.
After a week or so I took my own blood pressure [...]

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Researchers in Canada found that orange juice taken alongside a drug for hayfever – fexofenadine – reduced its absorption by half.  It is likely that there would be similar effects on many other drugs.
The researchers suggested that the spike in blood sugar was the mechanism which caused the reduction in drug absorption. In [...]

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There is news currently about how statin drugs are associated with lower levels of Alzheimer’s disease.
This is not surprising – because statins lower inflammation; and there is a link between Alzheimer’s disease and low-level inflammation. 
However, the solution to low-level inflammation is NOT to take statin drugs. Just as the answer to cholesterol [...]

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I hate to report this, but a solid study has shown that drinking orange juice once a day increase type II diabetes risk.
The reason I hate to report it, is because many people will be as shocked as I was – or even disbelieving – when first hearing that their morning ‘health’ drink could [...]

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Reliable and valuable research on health issues is not easy to come by – and I want it every day, whether for myself or to help customers of my herbal company, Specialist Herbal Supplies.
One of the websites I go back to again and again is that of Life Extension Foundation. If you have a [...]

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