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March 27, 2018: by Bill Sardi
Resveratrol continues to astound. Now if modern medicine would only take it out of the research closet and make it applied medicine.
Chemobrain is a symptom reported by many cancer patients with difficulty processing information. Symptoms of chemobrain include fatigue, confusion, mental fogginess, short attention span, short-term memory problems, recall and memory, difficulty concentrating. In an animal model of chemobrain, laboratory mice received injections of three cancer drugs, taxotere (docetaxel), doxorubicin (Adriamycin), cyclophosphamide (Cytoxan), preceded by one week of resveratrol treatment. Resveratrol resulted in far less brain inflammation and other interference of brain activity. According to the Mayo Clinic, no cure for chemobrain is at hand.
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March 20, 2018: by Bill Sardi
As expressed in a recent published report entitled “Past, Present, and Future of Healthy Life Expectancy,” it has become apparent the current “disease model” paradigm in healthcare may have to be abandoned and replaced by a “delayed aging” approach because of the large number of chronic comorbidities inflicting older people.
Caring for millions of senior Americans with chronic brain, eye and heart disease would be so overwhelming as to drain insurance pools as well as incapacitate society. Given that most chronic disease among senior adults is caused by aging, any technology that slows aging would delay the onset of physically or mentally debilitating diseases.
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March 9, 2018: by Bill Sardi
What causes cancer? Or more important, what un-causes cancer?
In widespread circulation on the worldwide web today (March 7) is investigative reporter Jon Rappoport’s coverage of the work of cancer researcher David Rasnick PhD. Rasnick proposes cancer does not emanate from accumulated gene mutations as commonly believed but rather from unbalanced chromosomes. Dr. Rasnick attempts to raise funds to complete his book on this topic (Precarious Balance: What Cancer Really is)
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March 8, 2018: by Bill Sardi
I’m of cataract age (in my early 70s). (cataract = cloudy focusing lens)
I’ve got clear lenses, no glaucoma (elevated fluid pressure); no other eye conditions typical for my age.
My retina scans you can see below.
My central retinal thickness is 255-256 right and left eye micrometers, about normal.
It would be typical for a 70+ year old to have drusen (oxysterol aka cholesterol) deposits at the back of my eyes. The scan below shows zero drusen.
My optic nerve and blood vessels are healthy.
I have habitually worn UV-blue-blocking sun lenses when outdoors during the day since age 40.
I have been supplementing my diet with lutein since 1992 when lutein first became available as a dietary supplement.
I take resveratrol since 2004 when it was popularized as an anti-aging molecule.
I have taken IP6 rice bran, an iron chelator, since the mid 1990s.
My vision is 20/30 in both eyes and I needed a prescription for astigmatism (irregular curvature of the front cornea of the eyes).
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February 26, 2018: by Bill Sardi
A recent report published in the journal Biomolecules and Therapeutics reveals the unparalleled ability of two natural molecules to address symptoms caused by diabetes.
Two natural molecules, quercetin and resveratrol, when used together are being extolled for their synergistic ability to quell the metabolic problems posed by diabetes and the drugs used to treat the disease. Undesirable side effects that accompany most anti-diabetic drugs (weight gain, low-blood sugar and death of insulin-making cells in the pancreas) as well as complications in other organs (kidneys and liver) prompt researchers to search for less problematic alternatives.
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February 20, 2018: by Bill Sardi
From the land down under, Australians are becoming acclimated to an idea brought to a present reality by one of their own – geneticist David Sinclair at Harvard Medical School. Dr. Sinclair says to reporters with the Financial Review that: “Living To 150 Will Revolutionize Markets” as if it is a development that is just around the corner. Imagine the profound financial let alone human implications of a 150-year lifespan.
Dr. Sinclair says within our lifetimes it is likely humans may creep in small increments towards commonly living beyond 100 years.
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January 22, 2018: by Bill Sardi
When scientific reports made front-page news headlines late in 2003 that the red wine molecule resveratrol, believed to be responsible for the French Paradox, triggered a survival gene that was known to be activated by a lifespan-doubling calorie restricted diet, hundreds of thousands of Americans began their own uncontrolled experiment to see if this was true.
For reference, the French Paradox was first posited on the CBS Sixty Minutes television show in 1991 when Dr. Serge Renaud of France reported the wine-drinking French had far lower mortality rates even though they consumed higher fat and cholesterol diets than North Americans. Dr. Renaud died in 2012 at the age of 85. His television report caused a temporary worldwide shortage of red wine.
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January 8, 2018: by Bill Sardi
Resveratrol is the elephant in the room when it comes to cancer. No single cancer drug has been developed with such broad anti-cancer activity. The anti-cancer qualities of resveratrol are summarized in a recent report published in the Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences.
Apart from its selective ability to kill cancer cells when delivered in high doses, there are many other beneficial properties of resveratrol that simply are untapped by modern oncology.
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: by Bill Sardi
Anyone who has had a heart attack or is at high risk for a heart attach should take a daily resveratrol pill. Heart muscle cells are slow regenerate after a heart attack. Dead cells become scar tissue that impairs the pumping power after a heart attack. A rationale for post heart attack resveratrol stem cell therapy is growing.
For the longest time it was thought the human heart had no regenerative capability. The discovery of endogenous stem cells harbored within human heart tissue in 2003 changed that thinking.
Stem cell therapy to replace scarred heart tissue following a heart attack has been a disappointment. The transplantation of stem cells into heart muscle tissue damaged by a heart attack is marginalized by the fact most engrafted stem cells fail to survive.
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January 4, 2018: by Bill Sardi
So many thoughts and emotions running through my head as I read Karen Wilder’s emotional statement released to ABC News about the ordeal of caring for her husband, actor Gene Wilder who succumbed to Alzheimer’s disease at age 83 in August of 2016.
Karen Wilder cites a striking statistic. A Stanford Medicine study that showed 40 percent of Alzheimer’s caregivers die before their patient, “not from disease, but from the sheer physical, spiritual and emotional toll of caring for a loved one with Alzheimer’s.”
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