What’s the best skin care routine to reduce wrinkles and look younger? For most people, it’s difficult to find a proper answer to that question. Lot's of skin care advice is of low quality. Some important reasons for this are the following: 1. Lot's of (online)...
Slowing down aging is one thing, but reversing aging is something completely different. “Reversing aging” means making old people young again. This would be far more interesting than just “slowing down aging”. In the last few years, scientists discovered it’s possible...
What causes us to age, and to get all these aging-related diseases and symptoms, and to eventually die? There are some fundamental, primary causes of aging, which then lead to secondary causes of aging. Fundamental, primary causes of aging are: Epigenetic...
What are some of the best supplements for longevity? Which are the anti-aging supplements I take as a medical doctor and longevity hacker? First, it’s important to differentiate between “longevity supplements” and “health supplements”: Longevity supplements Longevity...
I listed some major reasons why we age, such as DNA damage, epigenetic changes and mitochondrial dysfunction. Of course, there are other reasons why we grow old, and various others will be discovered. Below are a few examples of other potential causes of...
As we get older, our bodies, and our cells specifically, become less able to deal with the nutrients we consume. Most of us eat three meals per day, leading to a lot of sugars (including from starches), amino acids (from proteins) and fats entering our...
Cells communicate with each other in many ways. Cells continuously secrete thousands of different substances such as metabolites, DNA, RNA, proteins, peptides, hormones, neurotransmitters, vesicles, and lots of other things, reaching other cells, impacting...
Every second your body produces 2.5 million red blood cells. Which means that each day your body produces around 200 billion red blood cells. On top of that, your body creates billions of white blood cells and around 400 billion platelets per day (platelets...
As we age, senescent cells arise everywhere in our body. Senescent cells are cells that are damaged but refuse to die. Despite their damage, and their malfunctioning, they keep lingering on. Some scientists call them “zombie” cells, because they normally should...
During aging, our tissues become crosslinked. Crosslinks are connections (“links”) formed between the building blocks that make up our tissues. For example, sugar molecules are able to form crosslinks between proteins like collagen, which is an important component...
Telomeres are the “caps” on our DNA which protect our DNA. Just like shoestrings have plastic caps to protect them from unraveling, our DNA strands have telomeres that protect them against unraveling. Telomeres are made of DNA themselves. But this DNA does not...
What’s the best skin care routine to reduce wrinkles and look younger? For most people, it’s difficult to find a proper answer to that question. Lot's of skin care advice is of low quality. Some important reasons for this are the following: 1. Lot's of (online)...
Likely, the biggest breakthrough in medicine of all time will be the reversal of the aging process. The reasons for this are logical and obvious, but are still all too little known, even by the medical community and in the field of biotechnology and pharma....
DNA contains the instructions to build our cells, and so our body. Consider the DNA as an instruction manual for how to build a human. DNA contains the code for making thousands of different proteins, which build up our cells and carry out most of the functions...
The mitochondria are the powerplants of our cells. They generate the energy cells need to function. The reason why we eat food and breathe oxygen is to mainly keep our mitochondria going. The sugars, fats and amino acids from our food, and the oxygen we...
Each cell in our body contains millions of proteins. Proteins are the building blocks of our cells. Proteins are also the working horses given they carry out most of the functions in our cells. For example, there are proteins that form channels (gates) in the...
We are living in fascinating times. Scientists are developing completely novel tools to impact the molecular machinery of our cells far more precisely, faster and more cheaply than ever before. What are some of these promising developments? 1. Gene editing...
Producing stem cells from other persons would be a major step forward. Usually, stem cells are made from cells from your own body. Taking a cell from your body, like a skin cell, and converting it into a stem cell is a time-consuming and very expensive process....
CRISPR-cas9 is one of the most promising new developments in medicine, and in science in general. For decades, editing genes was a laborious, difficult and expensive process. It could take many months to years to change just one gene, and it would cost hundreds of...
This is the top 12 of the most important future developments that will transform our society (in no particular order): Self-driving cars Artificial Intelligence (AI) / Machine Learning Virtual Reality / Augmented Reality / Mixed Reality Robotics 3D printing Drones...