Health

Lose Weight and Become Healthier for $1,350/Month (or Free)

August 9, 2023

Lose weight and become healthier for $1,350/month? Yep, you can do it, at least according to the preliminary results reported yesterday by Novo Nordisk on its drug, Wegovy, a drug that sets users back over a grand per month (Novo Nordisk funded the research study that has not yet been […]

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The Scary World of Dietary Supplements

April 29, 2023

Are you aware of the scary world of dietary supplements? I am, and I still ingest a good number of them, as I’ve mentioned here earlier (See here). Am I nuts? Maybe. As you know, dietary supplements can be purchased “over the counter” with no apparent restrictions. Although the packaging […]

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Physicians are Losing Their Authority

April 5, 2023

Physicians are losing their authority, a power they once had in abundance. If you’ve been reading this blog for a while, you may remember that I touched on this topic when I dissected the exorbitant costs of our current medical care (click here to see that article). As I pointed […]

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Is a Nuclear Explosion Coming Your Way?

August 3, 2022

You probably saw earlier this week that the The United Nations chief warned that “humanity is just one misunderstanding, one miscalculation away from nuclear annihilation.” Notice he didn’t say explosions, he didn’t say destruction, he said annihilation. He went on to mention the obvious tinderboxes, the continuing nuclear activity in […]

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Exorbitant Costs of Our Medical Care

June 7, 2022

If you were around for a good part of the last century, you probably have noticed what I have, the exorbitant costs of medical care, not to mention other unwelcome changes, here in the USA. Call a physician’s office these days and you’re likely to get a recording, not an […]

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Urolithin A Structure

Urolithin A Effectively Tames Inflammation

May 29, 2022

A burgeoning flood of laboratory data, along with emerging studies on human subjects, indicate that Urolithin A effectively tames inflammation. Importantly, this molecule also stimulates mitophagy (See here), and it is emerging as a potentially important therapeutic agent.  The next two paragraphs, taken from recent scientific review articles, lay out […]

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The Awesome Science of Anti-Aging: An Introductory Peek

May 18, 2022

Fountains of youth and magic elixirs have been touted for millennia, each illusion tantalizing many, and disappointing all. That era has ended, replaced by the awesome science of anti-aging. New strategies are evolving to improve and prolong the function of practically every part of the body, organs like the heart, […]

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What Scares You More? Global Warming or Nuclear Winter?

May 6, 2022

Global warming and nuclear winter are two different, and in some ways contrasting, risks to the lives of the nearly 8 billion humans living on this planet. My last few posts have focused on what we can do individually to live healthier and longer lives (See 1, 2, 3, 4, […]

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Would Restricting Calories Improve Your Health? Would Fasting? Let’s See.

April 14, 2022

Do we benefit by restricting calories? As I’ve mentioned before (see here), scientists for years have known that a calorie-restricted diet, or simply eating less, improves the health and extends the lives of laboratory species ranging from yeast cells to primates. But what about you and me? If we limited […]

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Healthful Effects From Resveratrol and Pterostilbene

April 5, 2022

In my last post, I described some of the healthful effects produced by resveratrol, a chemical found in grapes, blueberries, peanuts, and cocoa powder, among other food sources. Not surprisingly, it also is available in differing forms from numerous commercial sources. Resveratrol has a chemical cousin named pterostilbene, which I’ll […]

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