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May 27, 2024 Epigenetic Alterations, Hallmark of Aging 3 Can you define the “epigenome”? It’s not your DNA. It’s not the genes tucked into your mitochondria. It’s not even DNA. It’s the markers on the outside surface of your chromosomes that curiously pass on some of their information to subsequent generations. For example, two famous… Continue reading Epigenetic Alterations – Hallmark of Aging 3

May 19, 2024 Telomere Attrition, Hallmark of Aging 2 Do you know what a telomere is? Yes, it’s the cap or end of the chromosome that doesn’t code for any protein. The enzyme that duplicates DNA has to have a fixed number of base pairs inside the protein to do its work of copying the… Continue reading Telomere Attrition Hallmark of Aging 2

May 13, 2024 Genomic Instability – Hallmark of Aging #1 “Please, please write your newsletter about the Hallmarks…..I want to know,” asked one of my clients. I couldn’t rattle them off by memory, so here is one of them. Genomic Instability is listed as the first Hallmark. This idea of Hallmarks of Aging has been… Continue reading Hallmarks of Aging 1 Genomic Instability

May 06, 2024 Anti-Aging Pills Mature: Here is Your Suggested Portfolio Aging has not been considered a disease state, at least not yet. It has been considered “natural” or “inevitable”. Yet, most folks over age 70 have at least one chronic condition or diagnosis that limits their life-style or productivity. Because there are so many… Continue reading Anti-Aging Pills Mature – Here is Your Portfolio

April 29, 2024 Microplastics Increase your Risk of Heart Disease and Stroke This is a huge finding. Published in the apex journal of American Medicine, The New England Journal of Medicine, is a groundbreaking study looking at the relationship of microplastics to heart disease and stroke. Carried out in Italy, the authors looked at the… Continue reading Microplastics Increase Your Risk of Heart Disease and Stroke

April 21, 2024 Plasmalogens Predict Heart Disease Better Than Cholesterol You have to understand statistics. When you take large populations of people and follow them for mortality against cholesterol, you find that folks who live the longest have total cholesterol between 210 and 240. Let that soak in. Folks below 200 live shorter lives. Got… Continue reading Plasmalogens Predict Heart Disease Better than Cholesterol

April 14, 2024 Maillard Reaction – The Devil in Your Food Of course, it was described first in France! The Maillard reaction is all about flavor and “browning”. It’s the “roux” of fine French dining. The chemical reaction is simple. Sugars (carbs) and amino acids (meat) combine with all sorts of odd reactions that add… Continue reading The Maillard Reaction: The Devil in Your Food

April 08, 2024 A2 Milk is a Better Milk It all started with an alert pediatrician in New Zealand who wondered why children from Samoa never had insulin-dependent diabetes until they immigrated to New Zealand. One of his partners conjectured, “Well, they’ve got brown cows and we’ve got black cows.” A quick little study in… Continue reading A-2 Milk Really Is a Better Milk

April 01, 2024 Plant Nitrates from Vegetables, As Essential As Vitamins Life probably couldn’t have started without lightning. You see, lightning creates the energy to break the nitrogen bonds of atmospheric nitrogen and make nitric oxide. That step introduces nitrogen into the food chain and starts the production of amino acids and DNA. Now, we… Continue reading Nitrates from Plants, As Essential A Vitamins

March 24, 2024 Ultra-processed Food is a Real Problem This has been a slippery question. What are ultra-processed foods and do they really make a problem? This column first reported the Brazilian studies that kicked off the discussion and identified ultra-processed food as an item of concern. There have been some studies refuting its risks.… Continue reading Ultra-processed Food Really Is a Problem