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Vitamin D: is this supplement helpful or hype-ful?

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Is Vitamin D a miracle drug or a disappointment like almost all other vitamins? Just recently there was a piece saying that Vitamin D may reduce pain. Today there was another news article saying Vitamin D may protect men against more aggressive prostate cancer. You name the condition and Vitamin D is claimed to help with […]

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Weekly reads: Altos Labs aging supplements pub, destructive NIH cuts, FDA warning, HSCs

Steve Horvath, Altos Labs

When I think of so-called aging supplements, visions of snake oil dance in my head. Possible benefits of supplements more generally have mostly not held up to long-term research. Supplements have risks too and so do purported longevity supplements. These pills claiming to fight aging are more in the realm of stem cell supplements that

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New review of stem cell supplements and pills

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Today’s post is a review and fact-check of stem cell supplements. This is the second time I have looked at the state of stem cell supplements. The number of supplements has greatly increased. Supplements  |  Stem cell supplements claims | Stem cell activators | Supplement marketing | Visiclear, Visifree & Visishield |  Stem-Kine |  Regenexx supplements | Big

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Review of new David Sinclair paper, supplements & anti-aging glitz

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Who is David Sinclair and why is he all over the media related to anti-aging efforts? This post is my effort to fact-check Sinclair’s statements in the context of the broader rejuvenation arena. In the process I also review his most recent paper from my view as a stem cell and cancer biologist interested in

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Boning up on stem cells for osteoporosis: good idea, little data so far

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It’s great when an idea like stem cells for osteoporosis just makes so much common sense, but it still requires data. A logical hypothesis is not enough. The point of today’s post is to fact-check the idea of using stem cells for such bone loss. A femur to stand on? Unfortunately, the take-home message is

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As clinics buzz about coronavirus, COVID19 patient given non-FDA-approved exosomes?

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When the number of stem cell clinical studies and trials listed for COVID-19 first started spiraling upward it seemed likely that stem cell clinics and other firms in that arena would get interested. I thought that we’d see the unproven regenerative medicine coronavirus bandwagon quickly grow. Unfortunately, there are reasons to be increasingly concerned here. For instance,

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Global transhumanism leader Natasha Vita-More on human germline modification

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In my continuing series of conversations with thought leaders related to heritable human modification, today’s post is an interview with Natasha Vita-More, a pioneer in the transhumanism movement and Chairman of the Board of Directors of Humanity+ (H+), the global transhumanist organization. Where do you see transhumanism today? Has it changed over the years? What

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