It’s no longer a secret that the trillions of micro-organisms which live in and on US have their tentacles of wisdom in just about every biological processes that we have… However, I never really made the connection that their day-to-day influence may be one of the major factors which modulates the speed in which we […]

What’s the point of a LONG LIFE if you can’t enjoy it to the very fullest…. Enter HealthSpan! Way before the prosperous times of today, our ancestors (and early organisms for that matter) main innate objective was survival.  Fast forward to present day, I’d say this objective remains atop the greater populations to-do list….. The […]

SA–Could killing off these ‘zombie’ cells in the mice delay their premature descent into old age? The answer was yes. In a 2011 study, the team found that eliminating these ‘senescent’ cells forestalled many of the ravages of age. The discovery set off a spate of similar findings. In the seven years since, dozens of […]