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Did you know that besides staining our tongues blue and turning on smurf mode, methylene blue has been historically used in biochemistry as a dye for microbes and blood smears? Is methylene blue actually good for us? Or is it dangerous?
Sleep is a hugely important restorative process for humans as well as all organisms across the animal kingdom. It is absolutely essential for the body, mind, memory, and learning [1].
More than a decade ago, a pathbreaking discovery showed for the first time that mature mouse somatic cells could be reprogrammed into pluripotent stem cells (i.e., make them young again). The discovery was made by using the forced expression of four transcription factors: Oct4, Sox2, Klf4, and c-Myc.
Mitochondria are absolutely vital to maintaining and optimizing health. When they work well, we feel well, and when they don’t, we don’t. Symptoms of mitochondrial dysfunction can vary from fatigue and brain fog to the obliteration of the electron transport chain from cyanide poisoning and death. Ouch!
Aging is one of those simple facts of life – it affects us all. It is marked by the inevitable decline in physiological function and an increased risk of disease... and lots of wrinkles, unless you live in South Korea, the plastic surgery capital of the world [1,2]. There are, however, some very distinct differences between chronological aging (your age in terms of years) and biological aging.
The cell danger response (CDR) may just be the most important cellular response that you've never heard of… until now. Well, unless it was in a Mystical song from the the year 2000. The CDR is defined as an evolutionary conserved metabolic response, activated when a cell comes across serious threats that could potentially injure or kill it [1].
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