Psychopharmacology, the science of drugs which affect psychological functions, offers other interesting materials. The amino acid tryptophan is a safe, nonaddictive sleeping aid which works because it is made into serotonin in the brain. Serotonin is the neurotransmitter which initiates sleep. Tryptophan is found in milk and bananas and can often be purchased in pill […]
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… just as the pigment of the hair is destroyed by phagocytes, so also the atrophy of other organs of the body, in old age, is very frequently due to the action of devouring cells which I have called macrophages. —Elie Metchnikoff, The Prolongation of Life (1908) Instead of preventing diseases only by protecting the […]
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- aging, amino acid, antibodies, arthritis, atherosclerosis, atherosclerotic plaque cells, autoimmune disease, bacteria, bone marrow, cancer, chromosome, cysteine, ducts, Elie Metchnikoff, free radicals, immune system, influenza, interferon, Life extension, lymph nodes, microbes, microphages, nerve cells, polypeptides, proteins, selenium, spleen, T-cells, thymus gland, virus, vitamin A, vitamin c, vitamin E, white blood cells, X chromosome, Y chromosome, zinc
… 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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