Telomeres, Aging and Astragalus
Dr. Elizabeth Blackburn, recent Nobel Prize Winner from UCSF, published groundbreaking work on telomeres, proteins at the end of chromosomes, and how they are a...
Original Proceedings of National Academy of Sciences study on telomeres and stress
A bit of background from this earlier post, I had this in the deep freeze of my computer. This was the landmark study showing increased...
Telomeres and Cardiovascular Disease Risk Factors
Dusted off this oldie also. By the same group looking at cardiovascular health and telomeres and stress. (This post is an offshoot of this earlier...
Genomic Cancer Testing Falls Apart
From today’s NYTimes, an article about a technique of using DNA testing to tailor cancer treatment is debunked with law suits ensuing. I flag this...
Toll From Stress: Links to Parkinson’s and other Diseases
From Scientific American Mind,( www.ScientificAmerican.com/mind) an article about brain disorders result from a complex interaction between our genes and the environments to which we are...
Toll From Stress: Links to Parkinson’s and other Diseases
From Scientific American Mind,( www.ScientificAmerican.com/mind) an article about brain disorders result from a complex interaction between our genes and the environments to which we are...
Another Alternative Medicine Critic Speaks
Here is the link to an article by David Colquhoun from Britain. It’s called “America, the land of the Health Hucksters.” I am not familiar...
Is polycystic ovary syndrome associated with high sympathetic nerve activity and size at birth?
This article is back up information about PCOS and high sympathetic tone. They were measuring sympathetic nerve activity to the muscle vascular bed (MSNA.) They...