Nina Teicholz, author of The Big Fat Surprise
Category Archives: Health
A Feminist Picnic
…falls apart when no one is willing to make samwiches.
Maybe they’ve just realized that people should go paleo.
OK, probably not.
Growing Human Hearts From Stem Cells
The headline on the article is misleading, but this seems like good progress.
Not that (as far as I know) I need a replacement, but faster, please.
Epigenetic Aging
We may be able to turn it off, and reverse it. I’ve always been amused by (in Clarke’s words) the “distinguished elderly [or not so elderly] scientists” who think that the laws of physics require our bodies to deteriorate over time.
Via Glenn, who has some further thoughts.
BMI
Not exactly news to readers of this site, but it is a terrible measure of health.
The “Dangerous” Paleo Diet
Here’s your daily dose of stupid. Based on nine mice.
Future researchers will find bizarre the notion we thought lab mice were good analogs for humans in diet studies. https://t.co/xrT0dOoH02
— Rand Simberg (@Rand_Simberg) February 19, 2016
3-D Printing Human Tissue
This looks very promising. I can imagine at some point they’ll be able to actually print entire limbs, if they can’t come up with improved mechanical designs, that will be as good as the original. But organ replacement is the most exciting possibility, I think.
Cryonics
This seems huge. Researchers have preserved a rabbit brain down to the neuron.
Life Extension
A 25% increase in healthy lifespan in mice, by genetic surgery. It’s unclear, though, if this can be done to existing phenotypes.
[Update a while later]
Here’s a more interesting take from Ed Yong.
[Update a few minutes later]
OK, they do actually seem to be clearing senescent cells from normal mice. This is pretty exciting stuff.
The Food Pyramid Scheme
A call for an impartial scientific review of government guidelines.
They’re currently worse than useless.