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Beware of Cipro and other Quinolone Antibiotics
The broad-spectrum antibiotic Cipro and similar quinolones kill bacteria by destroying the bacterium's little ring of DNA, and they are very effective.…
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TERT and its Activator TAC
Shim, et al published a recent (6/21/2024) paper in Cell entitled "TERT activation targets DNA methylation and multiple aging hallmarks," in which they present some very interesting results on aging…
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Menin, D-serine, and Neurological Age Reversal
There is a new report published in PLOS Biology by a Chinese group led by Lige Leng that provides evidence of a correlation between decline in the protein Menin secreted by the hypothalamus and a…
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NaNots: Targeted Removal of Pathogenic Molecules
Last Thursday morning I was a virtual attendee at the ARDD 2022 Meeting held in Copenhagen this week. At 11:22 AM Seattle time a very interesting 20-minute talk was given by Lou Hawthorne of…
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Principal Component Analysis of Epigenetic Age (Morgan Levine)
In one of today's ARDD 2022 Meeting presentations (8/31/2022), Morgan Levine mentioned that her group at Yale had developed a new method of eliminating the "noise" in using CpG methylation of DNA to…
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Deprenyl (Selegiline) as a Longevity Drug?
Prompted by UW Professor Matt Kaeberlein's participation in a panel discussion on ARDD 2022 this morning, I listened to the audio of Kaeberlein's long podcast interview with Tim Ferriss.…
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Low-Dose Oral Minoxidil for Hair Regrowth
There is an interesting article in today's New York Times describing an accidental discovery by an Australian MD. He found that Minoxidil (trade name Rogaine) when taken orally at very low dose…
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Low-Dose Oral Minoxidil for Hair Regrowth
There's an interesting article in today's New York Times. It describes the accidental discovery that taking a low dose of Minoxidil (i.e., Rogaine) orally instead of rubbing a high dose on your…
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The DIM Supplement and Wound Healing
Forgive me for introducing a topic to this Forum that is slightly off the topic on anti-aging. The supplement DIM (3, 3,-diindolylmethane) sold by Swanson ($8.…