Innovation prizes are best at promoting refinements, not revolutions. While health and longevity depend primarily on the exposome, the corporate mentality in the US, including the corporate thought of physicians, leads to Medicalization and a treatment paradigm for promoting health. We in the US live in a Medicalization paradigm that is bad for health – …
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Professor Doctor Andreas Beyer, Ph.D., at the University of Cologne, Institute for Genetics in Germany, along with his research team has discovered that as we age, a critical process in our cells, called gene transcription, speeds up. This process involves making a copy of a specific DNA strand into the form of RNA. When the …
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David Sinclair is a popular media darling for a reason, and it’s not because of great science. Rather, the reason is what philosopher, Dr. Harry G. Frankfurt, Ph.D., called bullshit. David Sinclair at Harvard has claimed to have used a cocktail of chemicals to reverse aging. He hasn’t. Let’s see why he hasn’t. In his …
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