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Tag: Inflammation

Nicotinamide Riboside Increases Brain NAD+ Levels and Fights Off Parkinson’s Disease
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Nicotinamide Riboside Increases Brain NAD+ Levels and Fights Off Parkinson’s Disease

March 2, 2022September 7, 2023

Generally correlated with the aging process, Parkinson’s Disease affects 1-2% of the human population above the age of 65.…

New Biomarker Discovered to Verify the Efficacy of Senolytics—Drugs that Clear Senescent Cells
Medicine

New Biomarker Discovered to Verify the Efficacy of Senolytics—Drugs that Clear Senescent Cells

September 20, 2021

A biomarker has been discovered for a class of drugs known as “senolytics,” which kill senescent cells. These are…

Maternal Diets High in Inflammation Could Lead to Late-Childhood Obesity or Smaller Children
Nutrition

Maternal Diets High in Inflammation Could Lead to Late-Childhood Obesity or Smaller Children

February 23, 2021

In a clever new study, researchers at University College Dublin put together 7 European mother-offspring birth study groups, and…

Physiology

Chronic Inflammation Lowers NAD+ Linking Two Critical Aging Pathways Together

December 14, 2020

A breakthrough in the study of aging occurred within the labs of Dr. Eric Verdin at the Buck Institute…

Physiology

What if There Were a Drug that Tricked Your Body into Thinking it was Fasting?

March 10, 2020

PICTURED: Researcher Juan Carlos Izpisua Belmonte, and his colleague Concepcion Rodriguez Esteban. Medical science is now becoming very comfortable…


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