Tag: stem cell theory of aging
Real patient experiences

Alzheimer’s risk linked to Telomere Length – (Oy Vey)
This is the latest study linking shorter telomeres to disease (there are over 10,000) that once again falls victim to proving obvious yet useless information. In this study, they linked smaller hippocampal volumes (seen in Alzheimer’s) with shorter white blood cell telomeres in a subset of women with a genetic prediliction for Alzheimers (the abnormal ApoE3 gene).

Happy 4th of July! – Now who REALLY was our first president?
Was George Washington the first or the ninth president of the United States? Despite considering myself a relatively informed person, I wasn’t even AWARE there was a debate, let alone a “conspiracy theory” tag associated with this question.

The 2013 Nobel Prize – “Vesicles and traffic” – explained
I believe the Nobel Prize committee is really recognizing the sentiment that I ended the book with:
“I believe that when we can understand the behavior of cells more like the behavior of social insects, then we will be even closer to wisdom.”
