Longevity Tied to Genes That Preserve Tips of Chromosomes

Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University ^ | November 11, 2009 | Unknown

[null and void]

Me too. I couldn’t walk for a year.

[neverdem]

thanks, bfl

[FastCoyote]

If your parents don’t have children
You have a high chance of not having children either

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

So what supplement should I buy?

[decimon]

What's got red hair, big feet, and is found in a test tube?

Okay, I'll bite what be it?

[Dysart]

Resveratrol activates sirtuins(proteins), which impact telomeres, so it is thought to work indirectly. Some discussion:

telomeres

[Jewbacca]

I think red wine just helps me by making me no longer want to kill 1/4 of the world.

[Dysart]

See it works. Shiraz heck that’s what we’re thirsting for here— empirical data. Thanks.

[AdmSmith]

Children of older parents are born with shorter telomeres than children of younger parents.

But “We found that for each year the father is older, at birth the child has on average 17 bp longer telomeres.” according to http://hmg.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/full/16/24/3097

We need more research.

[blam]

"We need more research. "

Thanks. I think so.

[SunkenCiv]

I’m sure. :’) For a while, there was a baseless belief (based on anecdotes?) that the older the father, the more likely the child would be schizophrenic. Then there was a belief that a parasite carried by some small fraction of the nation’s housecats caused schizophrenia later in life in children exposed to the parasite. My personal favorite is the 24 chromosome pairs delusion. :’)

[SunkenCiv]

Bozo the Clone.

[SunkenCiv]

Viagra and Minoxodil, throw out the condoms, and start knockin’ up single women in their twenties — you owe it to posterity! ;’)

[SunkenCiv]

My pleasure. :’)

[decimon]

Bozo the Clone.

That's Clarabell the clone to you, Howdy.

[SunkenCiv]

Y’know, that picture... I’d never had any fear of clowns before...