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

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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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Stem cell supplements

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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David sinclair, anti-aging

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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RFK Jr. & claimed regenerative peptides like BPC-157

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Bpc-157, Body Protection Compound 157

The marketing of what are loosely referred to as “regenerative peptides” including BPC-157 makes many health claims. Yet I can’t see that any have been conclusively proven to work in people. Even so, RFK Jr. claimed that the FDA was suppressing useful peptides. He mentioned this along with supposed suppression of “stem cells”. So maybe

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Weekly reads: stem cell exhaustion, Lineage Cell trial, Iowa AG wins vs. clinics

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stem cells aging, stem cell exhaustion

It’s been an exhausting week for anyone who cares about the NIH and biomedical research, but in today’s weekly reads I want to talk about another kind of fatigue: stem cell exhaustion. Please subscribe to The Niche Before we get into that, I’d like to ask a favor: please subscribe to this site, The Niche.

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Weekly reads: NIH freeze even before RFK confirmation, FDA warnings, RP stem cell trial data

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NIH freeze

RFK isn’t even confirmed as HHS Secretary and things are going south already with an NIH freeze. What do I mean? NIH freeze could do lasting damage to biomedical research The Trump Administration has frozen many NIH processes including meetings such as study sections that evaluate grant proposals. No study sections means almost no new

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Refreshing WSJ piece on longevity ‘guru’ David Sinclair

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David sinclair, anti-aging

I’ve written before about concerns related to longevity research hype from Harvard professor David Sinclair. The media often eats up statements about longevity from Sinclair and a few other scientists in that space. There is also endless coverage of the latest exploits of wealthy health influencer Bryan Johnson. For that reason it was refreshing to

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