Archive for the ‘food’ category: Page 271
Jan 25, 2018
Bioquark Inc. — In Touch Rugby Magazine — Ira Pastor
Posted by Ira S. Pastor in categories: aging, biotech/medical, disruptive technology, DNA, food, health, life extension, neuroscience, science, singularity
Jan 22, 2018
Want to Live Longer? Eat More Fruits and Vegetables
Posted by Brady Hartman in categories: food, health
Jan 22, 2018
Why Are These People Eating Pills of Poop? (Medical Fecal Transplants)
Posted by Brady Hartman in categories: biotech/medical, business, food, life extension
The straight poop on fecal transplants. Scientists think fecal transplants help us live longer, healthier lives.
Quote: “Seres Therapeutics is one of the more promising names in poop.”
Here’s the straight poop on fecal transplants, a new medical procedure which physicians use to treat infections. Geroscientists suspect that fecal transplants could help us live longer, healthier lives by giving us a microbiome upgrade. [This report was originally published on LongevityFacts.com. Author: Brady Hartman]
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Jan 18, 2018
Food store AI sees what you put in basket
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in categories: food, robotics/AI
Jan 17, 2018
How Close Are We to Farming Human Body Parts?
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in categories: biotech/medical, food
Jan 16, 2018
Can We Live to 120 on the Fasting Mimicking Diet or Calorie Restriction?
Posted by Brady Hartman in categories: biotech/medical, food, life extension
A look back at the most popular life extension articles of 2017. Here is the report Can We Live to 120 on the Fasting Mimicking Diet or Calorie Restriction?
Summary: The Fasting Mimicking Diet, also called the Valter Longo diet, and the spartan practice of calorie restriction are the twin subjects of two recent research reports. Both research reports show that the fasting regimens offer potential health benefits. This article includes commentary by the inventor of the Fasting Mimicking Diet, Valter Longo. [Cover Photo: Ryan McGuire.]
The idea that animals can live longer, healthier lives by drastically reducing their calorie intake is not exactly new. Scientists have repeatedly demonstrated the life-extending value of calorie restriction (CR) in animals from worms to monkeys—with the implication that the same might be true for humans.
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Jan 13, 2018
App uses DNA to tell you what to eat
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in categories: biotech/medical, food
Jan 12, 2018
Guns, germs and rice: how the winners of China’s top science prizes point to the future
Posted by Derick Lee in categories: biotech/medical, food, government, science
Jan 11, 2018
Consumer Electronics Show chock full of gadgets to make our lives easier, but do we need them?
Posted by Derick Lee in categories: biotech/medical, food, habitats, internet, robotics/AI
Today’s vision of a smart home has more to do with what’s technologically possible than what people really need.
Thus the endless parade of internet-connected wine openers, water bottles, meat thermometers and refrigerators, and a dearth of automation that would clean and fold our laundry, pick up things around the house or assist aging people as their physical strength wanes.
Not that some tinkerers aren’t trying to come up with life-changing tools. The annual Consumer Electronics Show, which opened in Las Vegas on Tuesday, is a showcase of the latest innovations from big corporations and tiny startups. Some of these inventions could soon be useful to consumers. Others look outlandishly impractical — or maybe it’s too soon to tell.
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