Inositol, a B vitamin, is a natural sugar known as muscle sugar and is a cell membrane stabilizer and antioxidant which has a protective effect on hair follicles, perhaps by protecting them from membrane damage caused by oxidized cholesterol in the scalp, or from destruction by clock-triggered lysosomes (proteolytic enzymes). Lysosomal membranes are principally comprised […]
Read more Male Pattern Baldness and What You Can Do About It III
- amino acid, avidin, baldness, biotin, bladder stones, cell membrane stabilizer, cholesterol, cysteine, cystine, estrogen, hair follicles, histamines, inositol, kidney stones, lysosomal membranes, lysosomes, niacin, oxidized cholesterol, p-amino- benzoic acid, PABA, phosphatidyl inositol, proteolytic enzymes, vitamin b, Vitamin B3
One fact about the future of which we can be certain is that it will be utterly fantastic. —Arthur C. Clarke, science-fiction author You don’t just want to feel younger, you want to look younger too. So do we. In this post, we tell you how you can slow down the wrinkling of your skin […]
Read more Looking as Young as You Feel I
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There does not seem to be anything in the nature of the reproduction of tissue which demands its death. … One cause of senility after another will be found and removed, each resulting in only a minor extension of active life. One cannot help wondering what will happen if the causes are all known and […]
Read more Some Immediate Benefits of Life Extension Measures I
- acetaldehyde, amino acid, antioxidants, arginine, arthritis, autoimmune disease, bacteria, calcium pantothenate, cancer cells, cysteine, free radicals, glutathione reductase, hydergine, inositol, niacin, ornithine, PABA, selenium, smokers cough, T-cells, thymic involution, viruses, vitamin A, vitamin B1, vitamin B2, Vitamin B3, vitamin B5, vitamin B6, vitamin c, vitamin E, zinc
Let’s think about the effects of aging on OUR APPEARANCE. Under natural conditions, the skin shows age in a variety of unattractive ways, including wrinkling and loss of resiliency, both due to the damage mechanism called crosslinking. Cross-linking is the process in which proteins are linked together by bonds which prevent them from functioning properly. […]
Read more Some Immediate Benefits of Life Extension Measures II
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Hydergine® (made by Sandoz), a prescription drug, can prevent a considerable amount of the damage caused by free radicals in the brain. It is a very powerful antioxidant. It is useful in older persons who have a degree of cerebral hypoxia (insufficient oxygen), in preventing birth defects resulting from inadequate oxygen to the fetal brain […]
Read more Our Subversive Free Radicals VI
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BHT has extended the life spans of mice in experiments by Dr. Denham Harman. In some species which have a naturally short life span and tend to die of cancer, the BHT’s life extending effects probably stemmed from its suppression of cancer development. Harman has also demonstrated an increase in average life span with BHT […]
Read more Our Subversive Free Radicals V
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Mutations to your DNA caused by free radicals are a major cause of cancer. Free radicals can make blood clot abnormally in our arteries by destroying our body’s ability to make PGI, (prostacyclin), a natural anti-clot hormone found in healthy arteries. Free radicals are also implicated in arthritis. Most of the brain damage caused by […]
Read more Our Subversive Free Radicals II
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where: R is an organic molecule ROOH is an organic peroxide R:R are two organic molecules which have been cross-linked to- gether Oz is oxygen Cu is copper, Fe is iron *is the unpaired electron H is a hydrogen atom HO* is a superoxide free radical RO,* and R* are organic free radicals Note that […]
Read more Our Subversive Free Radicals IV
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As we mentioned earlier, some nutrients effective to a degree in slowing cross-linking include cysteine (a sulfur-containing amino acid, which helps maintain sulfur in proteins in the reduced state); vitamins A, B-1, B-5, B-6, C, E; the mineral selenium; and other antioxidants. Removal of calcium and heavy metals from collagen by chelating agents may be […]
Read more Cross-linked Molecules and Aging in Skin, Arteries, and Other Tissues V
- amino acid, bromelain, chelating agent, collagen, Cross-linking, cysteine, Dr. Johan Bjorksten, micro-protease, nutrients, papain, papaya, pineapple, proteolytic enzymes, sulfur, vitamin A, vitamin B1, vitamin B5, vitamin B6, vitamin c, vitamin E
Empiricism may serve to accumulate facts, but it will never build science. The experimenter who does not know what he is looking for will not understand what he finds. —Claude Bernard, 1813-1878 When your skin wrinkles, or arteries or bread hardens, or rubber becomes brittle, or old Jell-O® stiffens, we are seeing examples of the […]
Read more Cross-linked Molecules and Aging in Skin, Arteries, and Other Tissues I
- acetaldehyde, alcohol, amino acid, arteries, atherosclerosis, cancer, cells, Cross-linking, cysteine, DNA, eggs, esters, flexibility, hemorrhage, liver, metabolism, molecules, nutrients, PABA, proteins, rats, RNA, sunlight, tissues, tobacco, ultraviolet light, vitamin b, vitamin B1, vitamin c, wrinkles