Learning From Mice Aging seems inevitable, but thoughts of reversing it propel great excitement. A group at Mayo Clinic has recently discovered that if a tiny group of cells, called senescent cells, are genetically manipulated to self-destruct, much of aging disappears – in mice. What the Study Showed The mice were a specially bred group […]
Sleeping Beauty (10/26/11)
Is Sleep the Secret to Looking Good? Why sleep? people ask me. I give them a welter reasons starting with avoidance of death. Sleep deprive any animal and it dies – rather quickly. Yet fear of death does not seem to motivate people to take more time for rest, or to even pay attention to […]
Chronic Fatigue Syndrome – a treatable autoimmune disease (10/24/11)
Chronic Fatigue Syndrome – Finally Treatable? Chronic fatigue syndrome wrecks people’s lives. It does so physicially, socially, and economically. Looking normal yet not being able to think or work causes enormous hardship compounded by many doctors who think the illness does not really exist – a position health and disability insurance companies are more than […]