Senolytic Therapy Improves Chemotherapy-Induced Peripheral Neuropathy
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 injury...
Study finds Hydroxychloroquine Reduces in-Hospital COVID-19 Mortality
August 25, 2020 Study finds hydroxychloroquine reduces in-hospital COVID-19 mortality by Istituto Neurologico Mediterraneo Neuromed I.R.C.C.S. An Italian observational study contributes to the ongoing debate regarding the use of hydroxychloroquine in the current...
Adenosine Injections Regrow Knee Cartilage – (In Mice)
Adenosine Injected into Arthritic Joints Produces Cartilage Regrowth; so says the press release regarding a study cited at: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-68302-w. This is a promising outcome; between 50% and 35% regrowth in mice injected with a liposomal...
Could We Kill this Epidemic in a Month?
The world has been dealing with this Corona virus since late December 2020, and China before that. Data on the severity of outcomes has been gathered from around the world, showing that severity is highly dependent on Vitamin D status. We in the US typically use the...
Great Promise for Stem Cell Vesicles in Life Extension
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...
Update on Knowledge of the Corona Virus
Strategies for Surviving Covid-19 I take six newsletters on health from Integrative Physicians – doctors who specialize in treating root causes of diseases, not just the treatment of symptoms with drugs, but focus on overall health and prevention of disease. Three of...
Plasma Dilution Removes Pro-Aging Blood Factors – Results in Rejuvenation
For may years, a process of joining the circulatory systems of young and old mice together in a procedure called Parabiosis, could make the young mouse appear to age and the old mouse get younger. The dilemma - is it "young blood" factors that rejuvenate the old mouse...
Fitness19 Reopened, Training Resumes
On Monday, 6/15 our Simi Valley Fitness 19 reopened, with heightened levels of cleaning and distancing and mask requirements for staff and clients. The first two weeks has been a trial run to make sure our anti-viral methods worked well enough to keep us safe, and as...
My daughter, who publishes Gardenerd.com resides in Santa Monica CA, and recently with helicopters overhead signalling the unrest of massive protests against the indefensible injustice that caused the death of George Floyd, she felt strongly complicit of...
Let’s Increase Focus on Rejuvenation
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 the youth-span...
Resistance Training Doubles NAD+ in Muscles of Middle-Aged, Overweight Subjects – Ten Week Study
Readers know that I promote Weight (or Resistance) Training as the most Anti-aging form of exercise known. Now comes a ten week study that shows a more than doubling of NAD+ in muscle tissue in middle-aged men and women, bringing them to levels equivalent to...
Covid19 and Vitamin D status
What might be the correlation between Vitamin D blood levels and Covid19 severity? That question has been ringing in my brain since I noticed the death rates in New York vs those in Florida - is it a latitude issue like seen in MS and other autoimmune disease, meaning...