Meet Function Health, an Austin, Texas-based, venture capital-backed company offering gobs of blood tests, all for only $500/year. Wow, what a deal. They even tell you how old you are by analyzing your blood. Theirs is a Theranosesque story of a young woman solving her own health issues who decides to save the world in …
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A high intake of protein is common in western societies and is often promoted as part of a healthy lifestyle. Protein is composed of amino acids and when too much protein is consumed, too much amino acid, such as leucine, becomes present in the body. Amino-acid (leucine)-mediated mammalian target of rapamycin (mTOR) signaling in macrophages …
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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“Most patients will derive no health improvement from medication. We should tackle the root causes of disease instead.” Dr. Aseem Malhotra, M.D. Prescription drugs are the third leading cause of death, and most patients derive no health benefit from these killer drugs. And many people will be misdiagnosed by physicians, then given a drug that …
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