Aging Matters blog by Josh Mitteldorf

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Aging Matters, a blog by Josh Mitteldorf, introduces itself with the line, "Playing the Game for a Longer Life", and gives the following descriptive information:

[Partial] Index

• Video: “Natural Anti-aging” is an oxymoron.
• Social Correlates of Longevity 1: Social status and depression, activism vs powerlessness.
• Social Correlates of Longevity 2: Family.
• Arthritis: Its importance, its ubiquity, and suggested treatment approaches.
• Nutritional Geometry 1: Most of us eat too much protein.
• Nutritional Geometry 2: Carb Restriction.
• Nutritional Geometry 3: Ketosis— benefits & risks of oil-rich diets.
• Post-Reproductive Life Span in C. elegans—How did worms evolve a life span that continues long beyond the end of their fertility?
• Putting the “system” back in Systems Biology (Report from Cold Spring Harbor Asia Conference, October, 2016)
• In an age of epigenetics, does antagonistic pleiotropy still make sense?
• Traditional Chinese Medicines for Longevity.
• Do we have to worry about telomeres being “too long”?
• Yamanaka Factors (which turn normal cells into stem cells) used to rejuvenate mice.
• Epigenetics and the Direction of Anti-Aging Science.

See Also

• Book: Cracking The Aging Code book by Mitteldorf and Sagan