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Red Wine Compound Exhibits Promise For the First Time in Human Trial

Friday, November 25, 2011

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Red Wine Compound Exhibits Promise For the First Time in Human Trial

A research reported on 1st November 2011, for the very first time that a red-wine compound exhibited hopeful health benefits when tested on humans. This relatively small study had eleven participants, who were greatly overweight but healthy. It was observed that consuming low dosage of Resveratrol, the red-wine compound, for 30 days led to several [...]

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Longevity Pill for Mice – Promising for Human Beings

Saturday, August 20, 2011

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Longevity Pill for Mice – Promising for Human Beings

The Fountain of Youth is a chimera but the possibility for longer life may be achieved. An article in Thursday’s issue of Scientific Reports states that researchers have created a new drug that can improve the longevity of mice by 44 percent in contrast to those not given the drug. The latter is a synthetic [...]

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Wine Can Help You to live longer

Sunday, July 17, 2011

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Wine Can Help You to live longer

In the recent years, increasing studies have proven that a substance found in wine, known as reseratrol, increases our lifespan. Nevertheless, apart from that, wine has several health benefits. One glass of wine per day for a woman and two glasses of wine a day for a man is significantly better than consuming spirit or [...]

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Drug Trials on Resveratrol Halted – Longevity Molecule Being Questioned

Sunday, January 16, 2011

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Drug Trials on Resveratrol Halted – Longevity Molecule Being Questioned

Sirtris, a pharmaceutical company announced a pause in the clinical trials for resveratrol. It is a compound found in red wine. Researchers claim that reservertrol might hold the secret to longer life. The company’s attempt to halt the research on resveratrol suggests that the compound might not be as beneficial as suggested. In 2008, GlaxoSmithKline [...]

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The Plant Compound Resveratrol Has Been Shown to Suppresses Inflammation, Free Radicals in Human Beings

Sunday, August 22, 2010

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The Plant Compound Resveratrol Has Been Shown to Suppresses Inflammation, Free Radicals in Human Beings

Resveratrol is a famous plant extract that has been shown to extend life in yeast and lower animals because of its antioxidant and anti-inflammatory properties. Moreover, it seems that resveratrol suppresses inflammation in human beings. This assumption has been made based on the results that have been obtained from the initial prospective human trial of [...]

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Ten Leading Health Myths Are Finally Busted! [Part 2]

Tuesday, July 6, 2010

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Ten Leading Health Myths Are Finally Busted! [Part 2]

There are many medical and health related myths circulating, some for many years now, and it is time those myths were corrected. In part one we discussed how important it would be to have a standardized method of controlling health data – an information bank of sorts that we could access for accurate information when it [...]

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Tools to fight Aging: Sirtuins

Tuesday, March 9, 2010

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Tools to fight Aging: Sirtuins

Sirtuins is becoming a trendy term in the sphere of skin care. Yet, in line with its popularity, some people do not really know what sirtuins are? It is, a class of proteins that exists in various organisms in humans, plants and even bacteria. There have been several studies conducted on the field of calorie-restricted [...]

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Gambling On Unconfirmed Results – Life Extension Pioneers Resolute In Their Quest

Saturday, January 23, 2010

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Gambling On Unconfirmed Results – Life Extension Pioneers Resolute In Their Quest

Stuart Cracraft became a father four years ago at age forty five and as the moderator of the Resveratrol Users Group, he takes it with the hope it will buy him a few more precious years with his young daughters. He is concerned that as he ages, his mind and body will have a difficult [...]

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How France And Japan Became The International Masters Of Longevity

Wednesday, January 13, 2010

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How France And Japan Became The International Masters Of Longevity

Celebrating All Those Centenarians    Their amazing numbers just keep rising, which is an indication we humans as a species are doing something right, at least in certain countries of the world. The rise in elders who are reaching 100 years old continues to increase in some countries as indicated below. Centenarian populations: Japan 2008: 36,000 [...]

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Susceptibility to Cancers

Monday, December 21, 2009

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Susceptibility to Cancers

Susceptibility to cancer is not a typical theory on aging, yet it accounts for a high degree of age-related mortality. Vulnerability to cancer pathologies rises substantially as people get older. It is true that cancer is not a cause to aging but rather a cause of aging, thereby putting cancer amidst the major challenges that [...]

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