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Oct 16, 2017
Yes, people do not like to admit it which is a serious barrier to acknowledging we should be doing something about it
Posted by Steve Hill in category: life extension
How did you come to accept that aging was a problem?
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Oct 16, 2017
A Healthy Aged Gut Is Similar to a Healthy Young Gut
Posted by Steve Hill in categories: biotech/medical, life extension
The topic of the gut microbiota is increasingly in the news of late, and its connection with chronic age-related inflammation, known as inflammaging, is becoming increasingly clear.
What is the microbiota?
The microbiota describes the community of symbiotic and pathogenic microorganisms that live in and on all multicellular organisms, and it includes bacteria, archaea, protists, fungi, and viruses. In particular, the gut microbiota and its role in aging and disease have increasingly become of interest to researchers in recent years.
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Oct 16, 2017
‘Postbiological’ alien civilisation that survives using AI could exist
Posted by Carse Peel in categories: alien life, life extension, robotics/AI
Are AI aliens watching Earth? An immortal machine civilization could already exist and may be BILLIONS of years old, leading expert claims…
Artificial intelligence could already exist elsewhere in the universe and may have been around for billions of years, according to a leading expert.
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Oct 15, 2017
Can We Rejuvenate Our Bodies Using Telomerase to Lengthen Telomeres?
Posted by Brady Hartman in categories: biotech/medical, life extension
Oct 15, 2017
New Senolytics Reverse Aging
Posted by Brady Hartman in categories: biotech/medical, life extension
Oct 14, 2017
Can We Reverse Stem Cell Decline and Rejuvenate Our Bodies? (Part 2)
Posted by Brady Hartman in categories: biotech/medical, life extension
Oct 14, 2017
Can We Reverse Stem Cell Decline and Rejuvenate Our Bodies? (Part 1)
Posted by Brady Hartman in categories: biotech/medical, life extension
Second article (#2 of 3) in three part stem cell series.
Summary: Stem cell decline leads to disease, gradual organ failure, and death. Learn what causes it and how researchers are trying to reverse stem cell decline. Part one of a two-part series.
Are stem cells the fountain of youth?
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Oct 14, 2017
Cellular Garb-aging Causes You To Age (Loss of proteostasis)
Posted by Brady Hartman in categories: biotech/medical, life extension
Cellular Garb-aging is the build-up of junk inside the cells that naturally occurs during aging. This article says why it happens.
To maintain protein homeostasis, and prevent garb-aging, the cell uses molecular chaperones, which help assemble and disassemble proteins. Chaperonins are a special class of chaperones that provide favorable conditions for the correct folding of other proteins, thus preventing aggregation. Chaperonins prevent the misfolding of proteins, which prevents conditions such as Mad Cow Disease. Sometimes, chaperonin proteins may also tag misfolded proteins to be degraded. When properly tagged, other processes can recognize the damaged or misfolded proteins and ‘take out the trash.’
Think of it as garb-aging removal.
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Oct 14, 2017
Why Inflammaging Causes Disease and Premature Aging
Posted by Brady Hartman in categories: biotech/medical, life extension, neuroscience
Researchers have discovered why inflammaging occurs and are working on new treatments. Inflammaging is new medical term for “the chronic inflammation brought on by old age.”
Summary: Inflammaging is a low-grade inflammation brought on by old age. It accelerates the aging process and worsens diseases like cancer and heart disease. Because inflammaging accelerates aging, geroscientists are perfecting a few cures for the condition.
As we age, most of us tend to develop a low-grade chronic inflammation that causes disease and damage throughout the body. Because this low-level inflammation typically accompanies aging, scientists have nicknamed it ‘inflammaging.’ Most geroscientists implicate inflammaging as the cause of many of age-related diseases including diabetes, heart disease, cancer, and dementia. These chronic diseases accelerate aging and shorten our lives.
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