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One Pill Makes You Smarter?

by pribut on July 17, 2010

The Future: A Pill To Prevent Cognitive Decline?
Why not exercise?
For many years scientists believed that the adult human brain was not able to make new cross connections. Neurons were thought to stop functioning and die at a high rate as one aged. Altman, in 1964, hypothesized that vertebrates could create new neurons, but this did [...]

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What’s My Age Again: The Telomere Tick Tock

by pribut on July 25, 2009

Many people have played the facebook game “What’s Your Real Age”. My guess that those who played it wanted to feel they were younger than their biological age. Telomere length seems to be the real way to determine actual “biological age”. These are the real “biological clocks”. Telomeres are repetitive sequences at the ends of [...]

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Travelling, Running, and Starving – A New Approach To Your Circadian Rhythms

by pribut on May 25, 2008

For many people, long trips disturb the natural rhythms so much that normal functioning on both the physical and intellectual planes is impaired. Clearly, there is a need for some method to improve the travel experience and the race results for those on a tight schedule. First class? Sounds great, but isn’t practical and [...]

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