Testing (labs)
- Biomarkers testing
- https://age-reversal.net/testing/
- Who has a special deal with Life Extension
- https://age-reversal.net/testing/
- CXCL9 ELISA Kits
- This is for testing antibodies and indicates inflammation.
- Best place to get mercury analyzed: https://www.quicksilverscientific.com/mercury-test-kit
- Genetic testing
- 23 & me
- Veritas
- glycemic load
- Ketoflex 12/3 diet
- Laboratory testing (consumer direct):
- `https://www.anylabtestnow.com/
- https://www.aacc.org/
- this failed the original source, but has a lot of interesting information
- Dr. Bredesen ReCODE testing (total cost over $8,000):
- https://www.truehealthlabs.com/ProductDetails.asp?ProductCode=gordon_bredesen_panel#a/g
- Tests offered on that page:
- Albumin/Globulin Ratio
Melanocyte-Stimulating Hormone
Arsenic
Cadmium
Calcium
Cholesterol
Complement C4a
Zinc, Copper, Ceruloplasmin
Cortisol
DHEA Sulfate
Estradiol (Estrogen)
Folate
Glucose
Glutathione
Hemoglobin A1C Test
HDL
HLA-DR/DQ 1,3,4,5
C-Reactive Protein (CRP)
Interleukin 6
Insulin
Lead
Leptin
Mercury
Matrix Metalloproteinase-9
Omega 6:3 Ratio
Osmolality
Pregnenolone
Progesterone
Potassium
Magnesium, RBC
Vitamin B-1 (Thiamine)
Selenium, RBC
Total T3
Free T3
Reverse T3
Total T4
Free T4
TSH
Testosterone
Transforming Growth Factor Beta 1 (TGF Beta1)
Tumor Necrosis Factor Alpha (TNF-a)
Triglycerides
Vasopressin
Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor (VEGF)
Vasoactive Intestinal Polypeptide (VIP)
Vitamin B6
Vitamin B12
Vitamin C
Vitamin D
Vitamin E
Cyrex Array – 2
Cyrex Array – 3
Cyrex Array – 4
Cyrex Array – 5
Cyrex Array – 20
Oxidized LDL
Organix Organic Acids Test
- Albumin/Globulin Ratio
- DNA methylation testing
- https://www.mydnage.com/
- Tests for DNA age via methylation markers
- Whole body testing
- Health Nucleaus
- A division of Human Longevity Inc.
- Health Nucleaus
Online testing
- MoCa test (cognitive test) (need to sign in)
- Memory testing
Exercise
Testing products
- Ketone breathalyzer
- https://www.ketonix.com/webshop/products
- Blue = Bluetooth
- Red = USB
- https://www.ketonix.com/webshop/products
- Diabetes app
Misc
- Virtual labs
- Amrita University Virtual Lab
- Many brain & body tips
- Neural Agility (The End of Alzheimer’s, page 195)
- “If you are an accredited journalist or established blogger and need the perspective of a laboratory medicine professional for a news story you are writing, AACC will be happy to connect you with one of our subject matter experts.” from:
- https://www.apoe4.info/wp/
- Ketone meter (
- mybiohack.com
- Ted youtube talk on the benefits of aging
- Ted youtube talk on aging of identical twins (and other things like cognitive aging)
- vascular risk factors important
- diet was not that important either.
- Strength of leg was most predictive!
- Aerobic exercise changes your brain
- this increases length of telomeres (and other things)
- Ted youtube talk on fasting and increases in brain power
- Talks about The Fasting Cure by Upton Sinclair
- Fasting increases the number of mitochondria in your cells
- Ted youtube on tasting & fasting mimicking diet
- talks about mice started in middle age
- reverses aging in their white blood cells
- most people can go for 60 days
- developed human fasting mimicking diet (900-1100 kcal/day)
- circulating stem cells increases dramatically
- people in biosphere 2’s organs shrank a lot
- eg liver was about
- talks about mice started in middle age
- 2 headed planeria created by manipulating electrical properties of cells plus growing new frog legs (etc). From Tufts university.
- by Prof. Michael Levin
Dementia
- https://www.drbredesen.com/
- http://www.mpicognition.com
- https://mybiohack.com/blog/dale-bredesen-protocol-recode-alzheimers-mend
- Class in Dr. Bredesen’s ReCODE program
- Lab that will do Dr. Bredesen’s tests (including a list of all the tests.):
- Sharp again naturally
- Video about SPECT imaging to diagnose brain issues & problems
- Note: this is kind of a promotional video for SPECT.
- Also, does not really talk at all about how to fix issues, just says you can
Genetic
- Genetic Home Reference (from the NIH)
- Terrific description of genes
Interesting blogs about aging and/or researching aging:
- https://joshmitteldorf.scienceblog.com/
- https://blog.bulletproof.com/
- https://age-reversal.net/
- Programmed Aging Info Theory is an excellent website discussing one of the many theories on what causes aging.
- Negligible senescence refers to organisms that don’t age. Their website has a great page that talks about it.
- Living to 100 on a science based diet
Companies working to develop medicines and tactics for slowing/reversing aging
- Elevian looks like they are doing well published work, but the website was not very informative.
Blogs about CR & intermittent fasting
Videos about CR
Functional Medicine Practitioners:
Health and wellness coaches:
Information on CIRS (chronic inflammatory response syndrome):
Chelating metals with food & drugs:
- https://www.naturalnews.com/038670_heavy_metals_chelation_foods.html
- https://draxe.com/chelation-therapy/
- https://ezinearticles.com/?Foods-That-Chelate-to-Detoxify-Heavy-Metals&id=3904501
Diet and nutrition
- Blueberry study
- Eliminating diabetes with a low-carb diet (youtube)
- Alternative view: eliminating diabetes by limiting fat
- Diet and glucose responses to meals & which foods spike it & which do not.
- Working hard to provide algorithms for everyone
- From the Segal Lab, “a multi-disciplinary lab of computational biologists and
scientists focusing on microbiome, nutrition, genetics,
and gene regulation in health and disease.” They intend to “to develop personalized nutrition and personalized medicine
using machine learning, computational biology, probabilistic
modeling, and analysis of heterogeneous genomic and clinical data.”
- Nutrition blogs & websites
- Abby Langer has excellent advice, especially about who to read and who not to. Several of the below links I got from her website. (No, I don’t know her…yet. I think I will call her and get her advice on my diet though!)
- Looks at many food supplements & nutrition.
- I have not checked their work, but they say they are an unbiased source for supplement information.
- Vox Online magazine with frequent food & nutrition related articles. Not my cup of tea.
- Center for Science in the Public Interest. This website focuses on nutrition.
- Linus Pauling Institute is hosted by Oregon State University and has some excellent descriptions about nutrients (such as niacin)
- Interesting website about diet vs disease
- Looks at many food supplements & nutrition.
- Gastroenterology Department at the University Virginia school of Medicine has some excellent articles on gastroenterology and gut health–and more importantly how to overcome many of these diseases.
- Abby Langer has excellent advice, especially about who to read and who not to. Several of the below links I got from her website. (No, I don’t know her…yet. I think I will call her and get her advice on my diet though!)
- Another nutritionist, Lyndi Cohen, runs an interesting blog.
- Nutrition from the many foods in the US Department of Agriculture website.
- Segal Lab, at the Weizmann Institute (in Israel) aims to develop personalized medicine and nutrition using machine learning.
- Weight Chart has some amazing nutritional information on foods.
Blog writing
- wordpress
- 2/3-3/4 of the way down the page is a list of sites you can link to in the footer:
- MonsterAnalytics to keep stats on the website
- Guestbooks
- Desired features
- Review before post
- Want to add my own fields
- Translation
- Star ratings (maybe?)
- delete button for both admin plus submitter
- complete logging
- export capability
- From:
- https://wparena.com/how-to-add-guestbook-in-the-wordpress-blog-and-website/
- Gwolle Guestbook
- Import from other guestbooks
- Moderation (check before publish)
- Multiple guestbooks possible
- Other languages possible
- RSS-feed
- A log for each entry, so that you know which member of the staff released and edited a guestbook-entry to the public and when.
- export as CSV
- Desired features
- There is a widget that will add a “pages”, which is basically an index.
- Top pages and posts (might be a simple way to track which posts people like the best)
- I need to create an index to the blog so people can review each document (for example every place mitochondria is mentioned)
- This book talks about it: Indexing, The Art of” by G. Norman Knight (Allen & Unwin, ISBN 0-04-029002-6)
- See this: https://wordmvp.com/FAQs/Formatting/CreateIndex.htm
- SEO optimization
- Rank Math at https://wordpress.com/plugins/seo-by-rank-math/defeatingaging.com
- Looks very interesting.
- Rank Math at https://wordpress.com/plugins/seo-by-rank-math/defeatingaging.com
- RSS Feed
- From wpbeginner
- General description plus some setup information
Book writing:
- Pages about writing, and techniques
- https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/10/smarter-living/how-to-finally-write-your-nonfiction-book.html
- found 12/16/18
- suggests writing a blog and getting up to a couple hundred followers
- Which is what this blog is trying to do!
- https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/10/smarter-living/how-to-finally-write-your-nonfiction-book.html
- Pages I may be able to use to increase traffic
- https://hubpages.com/
- https://www.reddit.com/r/longevity/
- Make posts here, and in similar places
Advanced medicines on the horizon
- Companies
- Samumed
- Using the WNT pathway they have developed treatments that may
- Re-grow hair
- Defeat cancer
- Restore cartilage
- Lots of these are in clinical trials already!
- Using the WNT pathway they have developed treatments that may
- Samumed
- Conferences
- Exponential Medicine
- 2018
- Day 4 video
- Really interesting tidbit about using voice patterns
- (Starts at 2:02:15 of Day 2 video)
- to predict the (future) occurrence of the following diseases using how you say something (not what you say):
- Schizophrenia
- Alzheimer’s disease
- Dementia
- multiple sclerosis
- bipolar disorder
- diabetes
- heart disease
- to predict the (future) occurrence of the following diseases using how you say something (not what you say):
- (Starts at 2:02:15 of Day 2 video)
- 2018
- Exponential Medicine
Not related to Aging directly
- Exponential Organizations (from Singularity University). This may be a good way to determine the best anti-aging companies
- Questionnaire for determining your companies exponential quotient
Defeating Aging 
