Make this festive season a good one. Spend it with loved ones, be kind and gentle with yourself, and go for frequent walks in nature.

Merry Christmas 🎄🙏

As a result, symptoms like bloating, constipation, or discomfort can still occur even if you haven’t eaten carbohydrates—or any food—for 24 hours or more.

"Starving" methanogens isn’t an effective strategy and may even disrupt gut health by depriving beneficial bacteria of the nutrients they need.

Even during extended fasting, gut bacteria can metabolize residual material in the digestive tract, such as mucins, sloughed-off cells, and leftover unfermented fibers. This metabolism produces gases like hydrogen, which methanogens can then convert into methane.

Methanogens are archaea (microorganisms similar to bacteria) that don’t require carbohydrates to generate methane as they do not grow using fermentation or alternative electron acceptors for respiration. Instead, they use alternative substrates, such as H₂ gas and CO₂ to generate methane.

There’s a common misconception circulating online that methanogenic archaea in methane SIBO can be "starved" by withholding carbohydrates through prolonged fasting (e.g., 16 to 24 hours).

This is incorrect.

Happy Thanksgiving 🍂 🙏

Happy New Year! Let's have a great one 🥂

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"Music compensates for altered gene expression in age-related cognitive disorders"
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www.nature.com/articles/s41...

#Anthrobots made from human cells by @drmichaellevin & team repair damaged neural tissue.
I'm feeling optimistic about our future #cellcollectives #bioelectricity
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www.nature.com/articles/d41...

That would be awesome, if it existed.

"Antibiotics: a risk factor for irritable bowel syndrome in a population-based cohort"
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pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30189148/

On fully sequencing the Y chromosome
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"Most troublesome chromosome’ gets new respect after full sequence"
www.science.org/content/arti...

Diabetes drug promotes longevity by stimulating the body's production of ether lipids Metformin, the most commonly used drug to treat type 2 diabetes, not only lowers blood sugar levels but has revealed to extend lifespan in C. Elegans -- an animal model that shares similar metabolic s...

More data on #metformin
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"Diabetes drug promotes longevity by stimulating the body's production of ether lipids"
www.news-medical.net/news/2023082...

I think they just don't know how to make presentations any other way 🤷‍♀️

The question is: is there anybody out there who LOVES this color scheme?

I highly doubt it.

Petition to rid #science and #academia of the godawful yellow-on-blue PowerPoint presentations

New #Longevity report via Bims BiomedNews
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biomed.news/bims-longev/20…

13 papers on everything from in vivo partial reprogramming, #mitochondria, #alphaketoglutarate, #retroviruses, #ovarian aging, #CR, #NAD, and more

This
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"Nuclear autophagy promotes longevity and germline immortality"
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37118514/

"Longevity gene from naked mole rats extends lifespan of mice"

Spoiler alert: it's HMW-HA
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www.rochester.edu/newscenter/g...

Dr Levin has a wealth of information on everything bioelectricity, for anyone interested
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Some very interesting reading just came out:

Great open-access collection book on teleonomy: direct.mit.edu/books/oa-edi...

Also, a special issue on same topic:
academic.oup.com/biolinnean/i...

With cover image made by Jeremy Guay:

Fruits are not the villain here.

What we've done with them (juice, conserves, preserves, sauces, cakes, etc.) is BAD.
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... all three of which decrease aldose reductase activity and uric acid levels, while preventing sudden drops in cellular energy, thereby counteracting the negative effects of fructose.

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People are unfairly criticizing fruits for their fructose content & claiming you should avoid them.

That's just from looking at the evidence with lack of nuance.

Many fruits can be incredibly healthy, especially wild/old cultivars, which are rich in fiber, vitamin C & polyphenols, ...
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"Paralysed woman able to ‘speak’ through digital avatar in world first" 👏
www.theguardian.com/society/2023...

Results from the Melbourne Collaborative Cohort Study
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"High ultra-processed food consumption is associated with elevated psychological distress as an indicator of depression in adults from the Melbourne Collaborative Cohort Study"
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

23andMe: DNA testing kit company needs drug discovery Money for research will be required but salvation may come from a partnership with GSK

New Financial Times article
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"23andMe: DNA testing kit company needs drug discovery"
www.ft.com/content/eeb8...

Hilarious Jordan Peterson impression of his first day of social media training 🤣🤣🤣
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youtube.com/shorts/nN5Wm...

So where do all the healthy & happy nonagenarians & centenarians fit into your black-or-white view?

You can't seriously be saying there's no living longer & healthier, surely? 🙂

Science 2020 article. Very important read
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"The human tumor microbiome is composed of tumor type–specific intracellular bacteria"

#microbiome #cancer #microbiota #bacteria

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...