New scans showed how the brains of people who had a hemisphere removed in childhood continue to function.
Category: neuroscience
Education and bravery are the key to our survival. In this article we dig into the correlation between health and longevity.
With so many supplement salesman and scientists talking about longevity it can get confusing as to exactly what that might mean. Of course we all want to live as long as we can but most would agree to it only if they were able to be healthy and active. After all how would life be worth it if you were confined to a bed or wheelchair in constant pain?
As we improve health we also extend life. One drawback to extending life is that we face health problems we might have avoided by simply not being alive. However as we extend life we will also extend health and find ways to cure all diseases. For most of humanity throughout the ages Cancer or Alzheimer’s was rarely a cause for concern. Cancer and Alzheimer’s was not as prevalent because most people did not live long enough to be stricken with them. Many humans died from infections, starvation, and injury and thus the expected life span was much lower than today. Every time a new advancement is made in healthcare we improve the odds of living longer. Hospitals, handwashing, and vaccines all improved a human beings chance of survival and also their chance of contracting a new or otherwise unusual disease.
Brent Nally interviews Dr. Michael Fossel about Telocyte and telomerase gene therapy on 11/16/2019
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Haven’t heard from Fossel in awhile. This is long but well indexed in the notes.
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This video me, Brent Nally, interviewing Dr. Michael Fossel about Telocyte and telomerase gene therapy on November 16, 2019.
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SHOW NOTES:
0:20 Dr. Michael Fossel intro — Follow Michael on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/michael-fossel-4196255/ ; http://www.michaelfossel.com/
2:00 Planned January 2020 interview with Michael.
2:25 Buy Michael’s 3 books: 1) Reversing Human Aging 2) Cells Aging & Human Disease 3) The Telomerase Revolution.
4:15 https://telocyte.com/
5:07 Aging complexities
8:20 Small molecules won’t reverse human aging.
9:01 People are fixed in their incorrect beliefs about aging.
12:50 Sometimes we have to first go backwards to move forwards. My March 26, 2019 interview with Dr. Ed Park at Recharge Biomedical: https://youtube.com/watch?v=xHgfYKsH0uw&list=UUCwpkla04tVxHJUds2J2aqA&index=6
15:55 Economics of radically increasing the human healthspan.
19:01 Leonard Hayflick
21:05 The rate of telomere loss is linked to many organism’s lifespan.
22:30 Lengthening human telomeres in aging cells “resets” the cells to make them biologically younger.
24:10 Cells, Aging, and Human Disease preface.
28:20 human population if we radically increase human healthspan/lifespan.
31:20 biological vs chronological aging
32:25 telomerase activation is the best point of clinical and financial intervention to cure and prevent age related diseases.
37:30 Data generally doesn’t support the idea that making telomerase more active in humans can cause cancer. Michael beliefs this idea has been propagated by misinterpreting data.
45:02 Causation & Pathology in Alzheimer’s Disease.
46:30 standard cell aging process
49:53 What can you do to help cure human aging? understand the concepts, share this info & invest.
53:40 the FDA is excited about Telocyte’s model.
55:30 Phase 1 human FDA trial costs about $10 million but costs should drop after that.
57:50 It costs Telocyte about $4 million to initially produce the telomerase gene therapy they need to treat their first 12 patients.
58:55 Lets “elephant hunt” to find billionaire investors for Telocyte.
1:01:18 Michael discusses BioViva/Integrated Health Systems & Liz Parrish. My July 10, 2019 interview with BioViva CEO Liz Parrish: https://youtube.com/watch?v=oBFTwGPaPr4
1:02:10 My May 30, 2019 interview with Sierra Sciences CEO Dr. Bill Andrews: https://youtube.com/watch?v=Tx9yG6iTROQ
1:09:45 ethics and risks of telomerase gene therapy.
1:11:15 Unnatural selection on Netflix
1:14:30 Is reality a simulation?
1:18:10 The mind is like a parachute. It only works if it’s open. Data trumps everything always.
1:19:50 telomerase activator pills
1:24:30 Dr. Greg Fahy
1:28:40 https://lifelength.com/ & https://teloyears.com/home/
1:32:40 My July 17, 2019 interview with Dr. Aubrey de Grey https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TquJyz7tGfk
1:38:34 Dr. Michael West
1:41:10 Inject snake venom for anti-aging? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8q_m-rDUNw0
1:45:15 Bill Haast https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Haast
1:45:50 My October 6, 2019 interview of Dr. Duncan Ross about Kimera exosomes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X8eIxo3eqvQ&t=3s
1:46:15 Brent’s stem cell’s treatment and recovery playlist https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLGjySL94COVQzsAauqp6lZHHzmzBQSmhH
1:51:52 Dr. Maria Blasco
1:52:45 Michael almost got $1 billion for a non-profit translational research for telomerase gene therapy from a wealthy couple in California in 1999.
1:55:45 Dr. Elizabeth Blackburn
1:57:57 Dr. Elissa Epel
2:00:09 Dr. Calvin Harley
2:02:20 Radical honesty and compassion
2:06:25 I recommend the book: Sapiens by Dr. Yuval Noah Harari
2:11:15 Michael’s fascinating experiences.
2:26:30 telomerase gene therapy economies of scale.
2:35:10 Dr. Peter Attia
2:36:50 Peter Rayson, CEO Telocyte. Curing human aging is a systems approach.
2:39:43 Forever Labs 1 year free cryogenic storage discount code ($250 value): BN801 https://foreverlabs.com
2:42:10 Dave Asprey — lack of funding for Telocyte is holding back the potential cure for Alzheimer’s.
2:44:30 Chan Zuckerberg Initiative
2:49:08 health advice
2:56:38 Viome for microbiome
3:01:04 the best current way to measure someone’s age is guessing based off how they look and behave.
3:04:51 transhumanism and ignosticism
3:08:23 Stay curious to continue learning.
3:16:28 “What important truth do very few people agree with you on?”
3:23:30 be considerate
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New discovery suggests cellular ‘cargo’ transporters play a profound role in creating brain cells and circuits.
A new study is suggesting a metabolite produced by gut microbes could increase neuron production in the brain, improve intestinal function, and ultimately slow the aging process. Across several compelling mouse experiments the research found the negative effects of aging could be counteracted by enhanced microbial production of a molecule called butyrate.
Investigating the effect of the gut microbiome on aging, the new research first performed gut microbiome transplants between old and young mice. Using fecal transplants, young germ-free mice were colonized with the gut microbiota of older mice. The results were somewhat unexpected as the younger mice colonized with the older microbiomes displayed increased neurogenesis, a process whereby new neurons are produced in the brain.
“We’ve found that microbes collected from an old mouse have the capacity to support neural growth in a younger mouse,” explains Sven Pettersson, lead on the research team from Nanyang Technological University in Singapore. “This is a surprising and very interesting observation…”
The evolution of human diets led to preferences toward polyunsaturated fatty acid (PUFA) content with ‘Western’ diets enriched in ω-6 PUFAs. Mounting evidence points to ω-6 PUFA excess limiting metabolic and cognitive processes that define longevity in humans. When chosen during pregnancy, ω-6 PUFA-enriched ‘Western’ diets can reprogram maternal bodily metabolism with maternal nutrient supply precipitating the body-wide imprinting of molecular and cellular adaptations at the level of long-range intercellular signaling networks in the unborn fetus. Even though unfavorable neurological outcomes are amongst the most common complications of intrauterine ω-6 PUFA excess, cellular underpinnings of life-long modifications to brain architecture remain unknown. Here, we show that nutritional ω-6 PUFA-derived endocannabinoids desensitize CB1 cannabinoid receptors, thus inducing epigenetic repression of transcriptional regulatory networks controlling neuronal differentiation. We found that cortical neurons lose their positional identity and axonal selectivity when mouse fetuses are exposed to excess ω-6 PUFAs in utero. Conversion of ω-6 PUFAs into endocannabinoids disrupted the temporal precision of signaling at neuronal CB1 cannabinoid receptors, chiefly deregulating Stat3-dependent transcriptional cascades otherwise required to execute neuronal differentiation programs. Global proteomics identified the immunoglobulin family of cell adhesion molecules (IgCAMs) as direct substrates, with DNA methylation and chromatin accessibility profiling uncovering epigenetic reprogramming at 1400 sites in neurons after prolonged cannabinoid exposure. We found anxiety and depression-like behavioral traits to manifest in adult offspring, which is consistent with genetic models of reduced IgCAM expression, to suggest causality for cortical wiring defects. Overall, our data uncover a regulatory mechanism whose disruption by maternal food choices could limit an offspring’s brain function for life.
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- Published: 18 November 2019
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It seems incredible that scientists have discovered a new human organ. I mean, they cut people open right and left (living and dead). How could they miss anything?
Well, they did. A new organ has been identified. Actually, two. Plus a new “structure” that is not quite an organ.
First, the “structure”: In 2017, an elaborate system of drainage vessels was seen in the brain for the first time. Until then their existence was suspected, but not certain.
Transplanting embryonic progenitor interneurons into the hippocampus of mouse models of TBI, researchers noticed the neurons migrated to the injury site and made new connections. Following treatment, memory improved and seizures were reduced.
Did you know that obesity, autoimmune disease, diabetes, arthritis, depression, anxiety and eczema all have one thing in common? It’s the gut.
