Airplane Food And Airport Food, A Personal Travel Experience
Travelling for pleasure is usually something we eagerly anticipate: it can associate with a long wished for vacation, meeting family and friends, enjoying a different environment, in short: there is a...
View ArticleMelatonin More Than A Sleeping Aid
Melatonin has been available to the public in the US since 1992. It is usually used as a sleeping aid or for jet lag related sleeping problems. However, in the last decade much more data about...
View ArticleTools To Turn 100
A Swedish longevity study that went on for 50 years gave me the idea to blog about the factors that can help you to turn 100 and still have your mental capacity and good health. Let me introduce you to...
View ArticleCan Longevity Research Make Us Age Slower?
Longevity research has done a lot of experiments, but can longevity research make us age slower? This year an 800-page summary was published of all the longevity research that has been going on. A...
View ArticleMy Experience With Cancer Research
April is cancer awareness and fundraising month. I thought it would be interesting to analyze what’s going on behind the scenes of cancer research. I was a cancer researcher for over 3 years at the...
View ArticleTreatment For Alzheimer’s Failed, But Prevention Succeeds
Recently another news story about a failed drug against Alzheimer’s disease (AD) went through the news media as shown in this link. Donepezil, galantamine, rivastigmine and memantine are the most...
View ArticleThe Inconvenient Truth About Convenience Foods
When your grandmother grew up there was very little convenience food, maybe ketchup and yes, there was processed cheese and coke. There were also bread and butter. Now we go through a large grocery...
View ArticleStatins Can Hurt The Consumer
Lovastatin (Mevacor, from Merck) was the first statin drug approved by the FDA in 1987 as a cholesterol-lowering drug in the US. It made history in helping high-risk heart attack patients reduce their...
View ArticleForget The Glass Of Red Wine For Good Health
We have been hearing for over 10 years that 1 glass of red wine per day for women and 2 glasses of red wine per day for men would be recommended in order to prevent a heart attack or a stroke. Now we...
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