Surviving the Nuclear Apocalypse, or Just Aging Better
Would you introduce another organism’s genes into your own body in order to age more slowly? What if the genes could reduce radiation damage? Recently, researchers made a discovery that […]
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CRISPR Games
If you doubt the power of the written word, look at one of biotech’s recent controversies. In this blog, I’ve mentioned CRISPR, the gene editing technology that . Like many scientific endeavors, it […]
Antioxidants and Cancer-Too Much of a Good Thing?
Antioxidants are everywhere, in supplements, super foods, teas, and for good reason, they may slow or reduce the ravages of aging. Click here for more. Antioxidants reduce the free radicals produced by normal metabolism […]
Birth Order and Longevity
I thought that I heard that first-born children were longer lived and I was going to write this post in order to rub it in to my two younger brothers. […]
Personality, Genes, And Longevity
Some of my writer friends build their characters based on personality types. Whether they choose to set two characters on opposite ends of the Meyers-Briggs evaluation, or pit type A […]
Meditate On This
My grandmother has Alzheimer’s disease. She is afraid to take a shower. She talks about her long dead father as if he is still alive. When she is at her […]
Sun Spots and Age Spots
It’s northern light season here in Fairbanks. I see them sometimes when I run outside to my outhouse and run back (it’s -35 F right now). Most displays last a […]
Is Chocolate Making You Old?
We know smoking makes you age faster, but what about your chocolate bar? Cadmium, a chemical found in tobacco smoke, contaminated food, and air pollution, has been linked to inflammation, […]
Theories of Aging: Anti-Oxidize Me
Every where you turn you hear about anti-oxidants. Red wine, green tea, and fruits that have just been discovered deep in a jungle all promise to slow aging. What is […]
Liquid Aging
When I was running on the cross country team in high school, there was a runner who swore off soda because he thought it reduced his heart-lung capacity. Later, I […]
The Phoenix Series 