Those brilliant minds at Tel Aviv University have discovered that Prozac, that archetypal drug for depression, enhances the effect of a common chemotherapeutic agent, doxorubicin, by a factor of ten.
Dr. Dan Peer of the Department of Cell Research and Immunology claims that Prozac works by blocking resistance to the anti-cancer drug. Specifically, it prevents the [...]
A bright spark in Russia decided to investigate whether beekeepers appear young for their age on account of eating a lot of honey. They do!
Maybe it’s time to increase one’s honey intake!
Products of bee-keeping and prophylaxis of premature aging
Adv Gerontol. 2008;21(2):252-7. PMID: 18942370
Dubtsova EA, Kas’ianenko VI, Komissarenko IA, Lazebnik LB.
Natural bee honey is one [...]
There’s been increased talk of late regarding the potential for compounds contained in coffee potentially protecting against skin cancer.
The other study that came to mind (I can’t find the article, sorry!) was one that found that coffee combined with exercise somehow mitigated the damage caused by sunburn by enhancing apoptosis of damaged cells.
This latest study [...]
This abstract details how a patient who experienced profound apathy following traumatic brain injury was cured with selegiline.
I’m a strong proponent of selegiline as both a life-extending and life-enhancing supplement, so it’s good to hear it’s being used with success in a variety of ways. The hope is that in the same way that it [...]
Another report on the life-extending properties of green tea emanating from the University of Heidelberg in Germany.
I’m pretty sure this has been covered before, but nonetheless, here’s their abstract. I don’t have access to this journal, Planta Medica, unfortunately, so I can’t tell if it had any effect on maximum lifespan, but since [...]
In research presented today at the American Society for Cell Biology (ASCB) 48th Annual Meeting in San Francisco, results validating two theories of aging were revealed at a seminar titled “A Mechanism Linking Lipid Dynamics and Longevity.”
The researchers presented evidence to support the two theories that old age is the final stage of a developmental [...]
This is slightly old news, but I wanted to include it anyway. A study appearing in Psychological Science informs us that one’s perception of cleanliness can affect moral judgement.
That is to say, the perception of cleanliness, whether it be in oneself (say, after having taken a shower), or in ‘the accused’ can generate less severe [...]
Singapore researchers have discovered that lipoic acid does not cross the blood brain barrier in rats.
In an effort to determine whether lipoic acid, which has in the past shown to affect brain tissue, might have some activity relevant to treating Alzheimer’s disease, the researchers administered LA to rats and measured its presence in their brains. [...]
An article in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition has looked at how much dietary vitamin D is necessary to ensure adequate serum concentrations over the winter months. The target vitamin D level was taken to be 25 nmol/L, and the daily doses required to maintain this ranged from 7.2 mcg/day to 41.1 mcg/day, depending [...]
Well, the oldest animal currently living in captivity anyway. Jonathan, pictured below, is 176 years old.
The average or maximum lifespans of these tortoises aren’t really known, since birth records of the tortoises kept in captivity are sketchy at best, they are often of indeterminate age when they are taken or rescued from the wild. They [...]