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For today’s #WebinarWednesday, I want to briefly mention a study linking depression in 10 to 14-yo girls with telomere shortening. Of course, I don’t actually subscribe to shorter telomeres being a direct proxy for “rapid aging” but here it is anyway.   http://tinyurl.com/l4rtmor   The research in this field tended to reject the link between depression and shorter telomeres but … Read More

For today’s #WebinarWednesday, I want to briefly mention a study linking depression in 10 to 14-yo girls with telomere shortening. Of course, I don’t actually subscribe to shorter telomeres being a direct proxy for “rapid aging” but here it is anyway.   http://tinyurl.com/l4rtmor   The research in this field tended to reject the link between depression and shorter telomeres but … Read More

  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. Here is the TIME magazine article.   http://tinyurl.com/sodastelomeres And here is the link to the actual study. … Read More

I awoke this morning to check Facebook for photos of my friends’ adorable kids but was instead shown two astonishing revelations:  Tim Cook, the CEO of Apple came out of the gay closet, and Pope Francis declares Evolution and the Big Bang real and decries pseudotheories by saying:   “The Big Bang, which today we hold to be the origin … Read More

Did you know Oct 20th is World Osteoporosis Day?  Just as people are now broadly questioning the use of cholesterol-lowering drugs, I believe the use of osteoporosis medications will soon be under fire. • Did you know these bone health drugs work by poisoning one of the two types of cells charged with maintaining bone health? • Did you know … Read More

For today’s #MondayMusing, I regret to burden you with the truth. This is a truth that I didn’t fully know before tonight so I’m not asserting any moral superiority here.  We all had the nagging suspicion that Conquistadors weren’t such mensches, but how bad could they be? If you don’t want to know, then don’t read further.   “Where ignorance … Read More

For today’s #PhilanthrophyFriday, I was inspired to revisit the theme of abundance and human evolution. Last night, I was helping my 11-yo son with his history assignment: a comic, showing the evolution of mankind from the stone age, to the neolithic, to the modern industrial phase.  In Oliver’s last panel, his Homo sapiens sapiens concluded that the efficiencies of a … Read More

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#Theatrical(and throwback)Thursday finds us reading from my own motorscooter diary.  Perhaps as a subconscious response to this scathing review of my book, “Telomere Timebombs: Defusing the terror of aging”, I have decided to open the throttle on my tedious and narcissistic writing.   One of my one-star reviewers writes: The narcissism that I had to endure in order to find … Read More

Ask a stupid question, get a confusing answer. To turn a much-used NRA phrase, “wrenches don’t take apart machines, people take apart machines” For #WesbinarWednesday, I want to explain something confusing but basic. The cute but mangy Yorkies will help.   Last week, a study was publicized linking longer telomeres with Melanoma risk. But wait!  It was a large, retrospective … Read More