Tag: recharge biomedical
Real patient experiences
Dr. Stephen Colbert, DFA, interviews the man who cured aging! (…and I interview his protégé)
In this first segment, Dr. Chang explains that we really don’t know what the normal human birth endowment of telomere length is and we then discuss why lab mice have abnormally long telomeres and are therefore not a good model to study our aging.
76-years young and getting younger (his ERA and DNA prove it!)
For #ScienceSunday, I am posting this video of a brief interview that I did with Karl, our wonderful patient who was featured in a few of our previous videos about hypertension and sports injuries.
In it, we discuss the measurements of his telomere lengths. In videos to follow this one, I will discuss other interesting cases of even more dramatic changes.
Better to smoke than to drink a Coke?
For #ScienceSunday, I feel compelled to discuss a study that got a fair amount of press linking shorter telomeres to sugary soda consumption. In a brilliant yet tragic attempt to sell copy, some news outlets proclaimed sodas to be worse than smoking.
It’s World Osteoporosis Day! – But that doesn’t mean it’s a real disease…
Just as people are now broadly questioning the use of cholesterol-lowering drugs, I believe the use of osteoporosis medications will soon be under fire.
• Did you know these bone health drugs work by poisoning one of the two types of cells charged with maintaining bone health?
• Did you know that Vitamin D can cause osteoporosis?
To learn about the root causes of osteoporosis, which lie in stem cell aging, watch this video that I did:
