Tag: telomeres

Real patient experiences

Dr. Norm Shealy – Genius and mensche (Part 1)

In this 5:48 video, get acquainted with Dr. Norm Sheely, the alpha and the omega, the rear and avant guard, and a really spiffy gent rockin’ a bolo tie.

He in the founder of the American Holistic Medicine Association and the inventor of the TENS (transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation) device for rehabilitation medicine.

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76-years young and getting younger (his ERA and DNA prove it!)

For #ScienceSunday, I am posting this video of a brief interview that I did with Karl, our wonderful patient who was featured in a few of our previous videos about hypertension and sports injuries.

In it, we discuss the measurements of his telomere lengths. In videos to follow this one, I will discuss other interesting cases of even more dramatic changes.

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“Now I am the TELOMERATOR – destroyer of kingdoms”

Well, you may not have felt the tremors but a couple of weeks ago, our world changed and we entered a new nuclear era which may be even more frightening. That’s because the genie of genetic engineering was loosed from the bottle with the invention of something NYU scientists call “The Telomerator”

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Is depression related to shorter telomeres in girls?

The research in this field is tended to reject the link between depression and shorter telomeres but in recent years, the studies have been mixed with a greater number of studies showing an association (like this Epel study from the NHNES study data that I recently blogged about) whereas other show no correlation like this New Zealand study.

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Better to smoke than to drink a Coke?

For #ScienceSunday, I feel compelled to discuss a study that got a fair amount of press linking shorter telomeres to sugary soda consumption. In a brilliant yet tragic attempt to sell copy, some news outlets proclaimed sodas to be worse than smoking.

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