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Telomerase and Follistatin Gene Therapies Delivered via Cytomegalovirus Extend Life in Mice
Upregulation of telomerase expression and, separately, follistatin expression have been shown to extend life in mice. In recent news, researchers report a novel approach to delivering these two genes via gene therapy, making use of cytomegalovirus (CMV) as a vector. CMV is actually a major threat to human health, and might be responsible for a great deal of the age-related decline of the immune system. Near everyone is infected by the time old age rolls around. Nonetheless, one can develop viral vectors in which replication (and thus any threat of infection) is disabled, and these are widely used as tools in research and d...
Source: Fight Aging! - July 5, 2021 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Medicine, Biotech, Research Source Type: blogs

Emerging Trends: Technology ’s Response To Alzheimer’s Disease
In our new series, Emerging Trends, we are looking at those technologies in digital health that are on a particular ‘hype cycle’ – technologies and solutions that currently stand out from the rest because of their novelty, timeliness, or greatness. These are solutions everyone’s talking about or the ones they should. Technological solutions to cognitive decline and Alzheimer’s disease, in particular, are rising with increasing pipeline drug development, promising biomarkers, and more. Let’s jump right in. Liza Marshall was “over the moon” when she said yes to the love of her life in a small cerem...
Source: The Medical Futurist - June 29, 2021 Category: Information Technology Authors: berci.mesko Tags: Forecast Lifestyle medicine Artificial Intelligence in Medicine E-Patients Future of Medicine Personalized Medicine Robotics Telemedicine & Smartphones alzheimer brain diagnosis digital digital health Healthcare Innovation me Source Type: blogs

Fight Aging! Newsletter, June 14th 2021
In conclusion, a number of high-income countries, changes in health expectancies over time have not kept pace with the growth in life expectancy. That is, people are living longer but disability and poor health are occupying an increasing proportion of later life. Our findings suggest that countries still need to make significant progress to achieve the WHO's Decade of Healthy Ageing goal of healthier, longer lives for all. Progress on Understanding Why Human Growth Hormone Receptor Variants are Associated with Greater Longevity https://www.fightaging.org/archives/2021/06/progress-on-understanding-why-human-gro...
Source: Fight Aging! - June 13, 2021 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Newsletters Source Type: blogs

The Mainstream Media is Slowly Becoming Less Skeptical of Work to Extend the Healthy Human Life Span
One can't maintain dismissive skepticism forever in the face of scientific and medical development communities that are ever more engaged in the development of therapies to address the mechanisms of aging. To pick one example, senolytic treatments that clear senescent cells from aged tissues are producing consistently amazing data in mice: rejuvenation, extension of healthy life, reversal of measures of many specific age-related diseases. We'll soon know how well the more viable senolytics perform in human trials, as the preliminary data from the use of dasatinib and quercetin shows that it does selectively destroy senesce...
Source: Fight Aging! - June 11, 2021 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Daily News Source Type: blogs

Fight Aging! Newsletter, June 7th 2021
Fight Aging! publishes news and commentary relevant to the goal of ending all age-related disease, to be achieved by bringing the mechanisms of aging under the control of modern medicine. This weekly newsletter is sent to thousands of interested subscribers. To subscribe or unsubscribe from the newsletter, please visit: https://www.fightaging.org/newsletter/ Longevity Industry Consulting Services Reason, the founder of Fight Aging! and Repair Biotechnologies, offers strategic consulting services to investors, entrepreneurs, and others interested in the longevity industry and its complexities. To find out m...
Source: Fight Aging! - June 6, 2021 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Newsletters Source Type: blogs

Considering Exercise as a Means to Slow the Progression of Aging
It is well known that regular exercise can slow the progression of many age-related declines, and reduce mortality risk in late life. Different forms of exercise, such aerobic exercise versus strength training, appear to produce different, overlapping benefits. This is concretely demonstrated in animal models, while the human epidemiological data, which can only show correlations, is supportive of the thesis that exercise produces changes in metabolism that modestly slow the onset of age-related declines. Exercise is a lifestyle intervention with known antiaging effects capable of counteracting several of the hall...
Source: Fight Aging! - June 4, 2021 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Daily News Source Type: blogs

Healthcare AI, Limiting Biases, and Gold Standard Data Sets: Exclusive with Vatsal Ghiya, CEO of Shaip
Shaip is an online platform that focuses on healthcare AI data solutions and offers licensed healthcare data designed to help construct AI models. It provides text-based patient medical records and claims data, audio such as physician recordings...
Source: Medgadget - May 4, 2021 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Alice Ferng Tags: Exclusive Informatics Source Type: blogs

Sharing Personal Stories Is a Powerful Way to End Disease Stigma: Read On
Whether you live with mental illness, dementia, a physical disability, or even incontinence,  you are bound to face varying degrees of stigma when encountering the greater population. I believe much of this stems from the underlying (and usually unrecognized) read that many people have that this could happen to them or someone they love. In my opinion, the best way to battle this stigma is for brave people to go public with their challenges and show others that we are the same people with or without our disease or injury or simply a different way of functioning.  Read more on Egosancares blog to learn about how...
Source: Minding Our Elders - May 4, 2021 Category: Geriatrics Authors: Carol Bradley Bursack Source Type: blogs

Fight Aging! Newsletter, May 3rd 2021
Fight Aging! publishes news and commentary relevant to the goal of ending all age-related disease, to be achieved by bringing the mechanisms of aging under the control of modern medicine. This weekly newsletter is sent to thousands of interested subscribers. To subscribe or unsubscribe from the newsletter, please visit: https://www.fightaging.org/newsletter/ Longevity Industry Consulting Services Reason, the founder of Fight Aging! and Repair Biotechnologies, offers strategic consulting services to investors, entrepreneurs, and others interested in the longevity industry and its complexities. To find out m...
Source: Fight Aging! - May 2, 2021 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Newsletters Source Type: blogs

Fight Aging! Newsletter, March 29th 2021
Discussion of Systemic Inflammation and its Contribution to Dementia Fisetin Reduces D-Galactose Induced Cognitive Loss in Mice Reprogramming Cancer Cells into Normal Somatic Cells Considering Longevity Medicine and the Education of Physicians Researchers Generate Thyroid Organoids Capable of Restoring Function in Mice In Search of Transcriptional Signatures of Aging A Pace of Aging Biomarker Correlates with Manifestations of Aging Targeting Tissues with Extracellular Vesicles Calorie Restriction Slows Aging of the Gut Microbiome in Mice Mitochondrial DNA Heteroplasmy in the Aging Heart Evidence for Hea...
Source: Fight Aging! - March 28, 2021 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Newsletters Source Type: blogs

A Pace of Aging Biomarker Correlates with Manifestations of Aging
Researchers here note the results from a study in which a comparatively simple compound biomarker of aging exhibited correlations with the manifestations of aging and age-related disease. The past decade of work on measurement of aging has shown that it is comparatively straightforward to produce metrics that reflect the increasing burden of damage and dysfunction. Making use of the best of these metrics to assess potential approaches to the development of age-slowing and rejuvenating therapies has yet to be carried out in any widespread fashion, however. As we age, the risk that we will experience chronic disease...
Source: Fight Aging! - March 23, 2021 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Daily News Source Type: blogs

Pain model – helping to target change
In my recent post on behavioural approaches to pain management, I had a number of commentators ask why do it, why not focus on pain intensity, and aren’t I invalidating a person’s experience if I target a person’s response to their experience. Today’s post will explore some of these points. I suppose my first point needs to distinguish between pain as an experience, and pain behaviour – or what we do when we experience pain. I like to use a pretty old “model” or diagram to help untangle these concepts. It’s drawn from Loeser’s “Onion ring” model, and he w...
Source: HealthSkills Weblog - February 28, 2021 Category: Anesthesiology Authors: BronnieLennoxThompson Tags: Clinical reasoning Coping strategies Pain Pain conditions Therapeutic approaches models pain models Source Type: blogs

Fight Aging! Newsletter, February 22nd 2021
In conclusion, long term LRIC could decrease blood pressure and ameliorate vascular remodeling via inflammation regulation. The Damage of a Heart Attack Causes the Immune System to Overreact https://www.fightaging.org/archives/2021/02/the-damage-of-a-heart-attack-causes-the-immune-system-to-overreact/ Researchers here note a mechanism that causes T cells of the adaptive immune system to spur chronic inflammation and tissue damage following a heart attack. As the researchers note, not all inflammation is the same. Some is maladaptive, and this is particularly the case in older individuals. The aged immune...
Source: Fight Aging! - February 21, 2021 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Newsletters Source Type: blogs

Fight Aging! Newsletter, February 8th 2021
This study was divided in two phases: CALERIE-1 and CALERIE-2. CALERIE-1 study was performed to assess the possible effects induced by a reduction of 10-30% of caloric intake on body composition parameters and lipid profile after 6 and 12 months in a population of middle-aged non-obese subjects. CALERIE-1 results showed an improvement in lipid and glycemic profile and a reduction in body weight (BW) and fat mass. CALERIE-2 was the largest multi-center study on CRD. A total of 220 subjects were enrolled randomly with a 2:1 allocation into two subgroups: 145 in the CRD group and 75 in the ad libitum group. The CRD gro...
Source: Fight Aging! - February 7, 2021 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Newsletters Source Type: blogs

A New Era in Research into Aging, Focused on Intervention and Treatment
Past research into aging was characterized by a driving philosophy of "look but don't touch". Intervention in the aging process was presented as exclusively the domain of fraud, lies, and marketing, exemplified by the activities of anti-aging marketplace, all hope and non-functional potions. To treat aging was an aspiration that every scientist was strongly encouraged to avoid by those who controlled the research agenda and its funding. This was the case from at least the 1970s until comparatively recently. Only in the past decade or so has the scientific community come around to accept the treatment of aging as a possible...
Source: Fight Aging! - February 4, 2021 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Healthy Life Extension Community Source Type: blogs