Being Patient quoted Andrei Irimia in an article on normal brain aging vs. dementia. “With a healthy diet and plenty of exercise, the brain ages a bit slower. There are populations out there where, in fact, they’re getting so much exercise that their brains age very slowly,” Irimia said.
Medscape spoke to Pinchas Cohen about the popularity of peptide supplementation despite the lack of rigorous evidence supporting the practice. He noted that he has testified before the FDA multiple times as an expert on other drugs, including human growth hormone, but no one has asked him to present on MOTS-c so far. If they did, he would advise against FDA deregulation at this time and instead appeal for research funding and accelerated clinical trials, he added.
MDLinx quoted Sean Curran regarding a non-USC study investigating how the drugs rapamycin, dapagliflozin, and semaglutide affect aging. “In non-human studies, medications have been used to extend longevity across organisms, from simple yeast cells to more complex mammals,” Curran said. “Although this is the question everyone wants the answer to, perhaps the more important question we should be asking is, ‘To what extent can a medication influence health across the lifespan, including in older adults?’ Maximizing the health, especially at older ages, is far more important than extending longevity.”
Los Angeles Times quoted Susan Enguidanos in a column on hospice fraud. “The biggest complaint,” she said of consumer reviews of hospice organizations on Google and Yelp was that hospice staff didn’t show up as much as expected. “They said they would come,” Enguidanos said, paraphrasing a typical response, “and they just didn’t show up.” The column was widely republished, including in Yahoo, AOL, and MSN.
PsyPost featured a study by Roberto Vicinanza and Pinchas Cohen on how adhering to a Mediterranean Diet can increase the amount of mitochondrial microproteins humanin and SHMOOSE.
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