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QUALITY of life extension
Day 2 of the SENS4 conference. “SENS” stands for Strategies for Engineered Negligible Senescence. Senescence is the ‘aging’ of biological cells and tissues. But aging is a vague and poorly defined word. What do you think of when you hear the word ‘aging’. You might think of words like inevitable, or natural. But you might…
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Life Extension – Living Longer and Smaller
Holly Brown-Borg from the university of North Dakota presented some interesting research showing that “Ames Dwarf” mice live up to 70% longer than regular mice! That would mean you or I could be living well past 130 years old. So what is so special about an Ames mouse? Well they are missing the ability to…
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Anti-Aging or Living Forever
I’m currently at Queens College Cambridge UK attending the SENS4 conference. The general theme of the meeting is the scientific foundations and research behind anti aging, and more specifically life extension and QUALITY of life extension. This is the first of four days of seminars, lectures, posters and nights out in the pubs with all…
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Who Controls How Much Food You Eat?
If you have a weight loss, general health or some other body shape goal (like building muscle) you will have to pay attention to your food intake. Both the total calories and to some degree the types of calories you’re consuming. That doesn’t sound too controversial on the surface. But it gets much more complicated…
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Weight Loss – Sprint or Marathon?
Most people gain weight gradually over time and don’t even notice because it happens so slowly. But almost anyone I’ve ever seen who has lost weight does it rapidly over the course of weeks and months. It almost never takes as long to lose weight as it does to gain it. This goes against conventional…