I would guess that his telomere length would have been LONGER three years ago because there would have been many stem cells in crisis with lengthening but damaged chromosomes. But I believe his percentage of critically-shortened telomeres would have been higher (typically in the teens)
Did you know that 5% of men under 30 have prostate cancer and that number is as high as 70% over 70? Did you know that even though it can kill you, your doctor might recommend not treating it?
So we suspected that chronic CMV infection ages us but we only conprehended that the immune system burns out fighting it. Until this paper, we didn’t realize that it also steals the healthy gene transciption factors that the host cell needs to stabilize its telomers. It’s a double whammy.
In this long overdue video, I have finally decided to take arms against a sea of troubles that I call the TA-65 under-cutters. For years, I have had people tell me “I would have bought TA-65 from you but I didn’t realize you sold it!”
In long-awaited and landmark study published yesterday in Genetics, Lapham and 28 other authors collaborated to report telomere length in a cohort of Kaiser patients who gave saliva samples.
Our body doesn’t go in for a total flush so it is sort of like have the oil continuously exchanged as it becomes sludgy from the accumulation of damaged stem cells that results from replicative senescence.
