Anyone notice all the Medical Discoverys latetly?

mightymike · Post by **mightymike** » Mon Feb 26, 2007 9:57 am

Which is good news for all of us, and the one's we love.
What an amazing time we live in.

Here's some interesting ones of late:

http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?chanID ... 38537F58D6

http://www.news-medical.net/?id=22169

http://www.sciencedaily.com/upi/index.p ... alysis.xml

http://www.cbc.ca/cp/HealthScout/070222/6022215AU.html

This stuff is very interesting to me, because I know first hand how even just a healthy diet, can transform your health. When I eat a real healthy meal, I feel a sense Euphoria afterwards. (Fresh made Pico De Gallo Salsa is my Salad dressing, and potato topper)

cole · Post by **cole** » Mon Feb 26, 2007 12:11 pm

Great stuff man!

It is an amazing time to be in. They recently found that stem cells can be taken from amniotic fluid which eliminates the need for goverances preventing the use of embryos for such research.

Perhaps one day we can (and I say this half-jokingly) replace a liver, kidney, heart, lung, practically any organ by a fresh organ made from your own DNA using stem cells. A bit creepy but nontheless very profound.

When I think of medical advancements I think of all the little kids out there in the world that need help so badly sitting in hospitals tied up to a thousand tubes and the heartbroken moms and dads that would give their life to find a cure or even some form of treatment.

We are here on this planet to really do only one thing..to help each other.

Cole

mightymike · Post by **mightymike** » Mon Feb 26, 2007 12:46 pm

I lost my Grandpa to Pulmonary Fibrosis in Dec 1999. If they could have grown a lung from his own DNA, he would still be around. I miss him so much, and think about him all the time.

A few years back there were some longevity studies, but it was with some insects. Where they delayed breeding till later in life, and found that they were able to extend their life to the equivalent of extending human life to 150, after a couple of generations.

I wish I could find this study, but basically the preliminary claim, was that it tricked the DNA time clock, that tells that bug how long to live.

Everything has a DNA time clock, beit a bug, or a tree that lives for thousands of years.

Now I know bugs and humans, and trees are different, and it may not translate directly. And maybe this is anecdotal, but I have noticed that women in my family who have children in their 40s live really long. Well into their 90s.

And if you think about it, what is the purpose of any life? (Biologically Speaking) And that is to procreate IMHO, and once you can't anymore, the body starts to shut down, and eventually die. But then when a Woman has that child, it tells the body, I need to live, to be around to raise that kid, and I truly believe that this has something to do with the reason they did the delayed breeding study in the first place.

Now maybe those bugs lived longer because of the controlled environment, and maybe a woman who is healthy enough to have a kid in her 40s, is already more healthy than most, and was going to live longer anyways.

I don't know.

I just find the whole concept of gaining control over that time clock fascinating to the Nth degree. If you could live to be 150, you'd probably be in pretty damn good shape (like a 30 to 40year old) well into your hundreds I would hope.

We're lucky we don't live in the days when life expectancy was 40 to 50 years.

St August · Post by **St August** » Mon Feb 26, 2007 1:35 pm

mightymike wrote:

I just find the whole concept of gaining control over that time clock fascinating to the Nth degree. If you could live to be 150, you'd probably be in pretty damn good shape (like a 30 to 40year old) well into your hundreds I would hope.

Now think about this Taxes

Tone Slinger · Post by **Tone Slinger** » Mon Feb 26, 2007 3:05 pm

Yeah, aging sucks. I think stress is also a main culprit. I have always looked "younger" than my age, until now. It is scary to think that my mind is young, but my body(especially my face, laugh lines they're called) seems to be goin down that aging road. I look at pictures of my self in my 20's thinking that I still look the same, but alas, a change has already come. Fuckin sucks.

mightymike · Post by **mightymike** » Mon Feb 26, 2007 7:09 pm

Embrace those age lines, and wear them proudly, becasue old age is a privilege denied to many.

Tone Slinger · Post by **Tone Slinger** » Mon Feb 26, 2007 7:35 pm

Great way to look at it and so true.