Author: Edward
Real patient experiences

Dogs use oxytocin to bond with humans
It would seem that it’s a “dog-eat-dog” work amongst dogs but when they are looking to be adopted and cared for by humans, they have co-opted the infant-parent cuteness that keeps us from abandoning our own young.

Murine hepatitis model validates my Stem Cell Theory of Aging and Disease
Google alerts for “telomeres” posted this interesting study validating my idea that replicative senescence is at the heart of liver disease. They engineered mice to have poor telomere repair and then watched as the large cell liver histology typical in hepatitis and cirrhosis developed.

Sleep-the ultimate anti-aging solution
Check out this very brief interview about how telomerase activation can enhance the anti-aging benefits of sleep:

Same data, two opposite conclusions? – unless…
When data from the Copehnhagen City Heart Study was published in 2013, they concluded that shorter telomeres in leukocytes was not associated with increased cancer after adjusting for age but that it WAS associated with reduced survival from cancer http://jnci.oxfordjournals.org/content/105/7/459.long
In 2015, the same data looked at certain gene tendencies that promote telomere shortening and concluded that cancer survival was IMPROVED when shortening was enhanced in the telomeres.
Contradiction? Not so fast.
