by Frank Wilhelmi | Feb 20, 2021 | Antiaging, News Roundup, Rejuvenation Strategies
A group of researchers has been building of model of aging, correlating the onset risk of the many diseases of aging (heart disease, cancers, dementias, organ failures, etc.) with with the now known increase of senescent cells as we age. When they tweek the variables...
by Frank Wilhelmi | Jan 1, 2021 | Antiaging, News Roundup, Rejuvenation Strategies
Here is a very exhaustive review of scientific progress aimed at arresting and reversing aging from our friend Reason at FightAging.org; not yet accomplished, but there are many promising pathways leading forward. A Look Back at 2020: Progress Towards the Treatment of...
by Frank Wilhelmi | Nov 25, 2020 | Antiaging, News Roundup, Rejuvenation Strategies
On July 1, 2020 I wrote that the replacement of 50% of blood plasma in old mice brought about the rejuvenation see in Parabiosis; joining of a young and old animal together, so sharing their blood supply, wherein the old animal is rejuvenated and the young animal...
by Frank Wilhelmi | Sep 14, 2020 | Frank's Column, Rejuvenation Strategies
Chemotherapy is well known for causing peripheral neuropathy – a tingling or burning in the hands and feet or perhaps simply numbness in extremities. Now there is evidence that this is caused by Cisplatin and other chemo-drugs inducing a state of senescent-like...
by Frank Wilhelmi | Aug 11, 2020 | News Roundup, Rejuvenation Strategies, Skin and Hair Health
Over a decade ago, stem cells were promised to repair virtually everything in our bodies, but over time researchers noticed that very few stem cells actually survive transplanting over the long term, and began looking at what stem cells (SCs) were doing to cause the...
by Frank Wilhelmi | May 23, 2020 | Antiaging, Rejuvenation Strategies
Our primary focus at senior fitness has, for many years, has been on promoting strategies for “Preserving Fitness into Advanced Age”; there has, so far, been little attention to evolving methods for repairing accumulated damage so as to radically extend...