Accumulated Wastes: Those Telltale Brown Spots I

With accurate experiment and observation to work upon, imagination becomes the architect of physical theory. —John Tyndall If you didn’t carry out the garbage, you would soon be buried in waste. If you were only able to dispose-of some of your garbage, it would take longer, but eventually you would suffer the same fate. Do […]

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Our Subversive Free Radicals VII

Santoquin antioxidant, more familar as a commonly-used feed ingredient by its generic nickname of ethoxyquin, is feed- grade: 6-ethoxy-1,2-dihydro-2,2,4-trimethylquinoline. The structural formula looks like this: H NW CH, CH, CH;CH,O a CH; One of the most familiar (and perhaps important) antioxidants that Mother Nature provides living bodies is Vitamin E. Its most potent isomer, -tocopherol […]

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Cross-linked Molecules and Aging in Skin, Arteries, and Other Tissues I

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 […]

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Molecules of Life and Life Extension: An Introduction to the Cast I

… all diseases may by sure means be prevented or cured, not excepting that of old age, and our lives lengthened at pleasure even beyond the antediluvian standard. —Benjamin Franklin, in a letter to English chemist Joseph Priestley The same molecules that serve us well by keeping us alive and healthy can, if they fail […]

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