Scientists find class of drugs that boosts healthy lifespan

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[gattaca]

I do take a multivitamin myself and extra vitamin C. You are right about the antibiotics, but I was referring to long-term drugs that people take. I’m 59 and try to eat healthy and exercise.

[trebb]

I do take a multivitamin myself and extra vitamin C. You are right about the antibiotics, but I was referring to long-term drugs that people take. I’m 59 and try to eat healthy and exercise.

I realized what you were saying - my twisted mind can't help itself sometimes and I often engender some interesting ripostes. I now try to temper my "fits of irony" with something to indicate I'm not on the attack - just catering to my amusement center.

[reed13k]

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[gattaca]

I had to look up the definition of “ripostes” HA

[Awgie]

Medical science shows great promise. Some of us may be too old to benefit. At 65 i am very lean and strong. I am a physical therapist. I created a home exercise system based on my MobilityBar. Using my MB i do 20 mobility exercises in 10 minutes. Thats right...only 10 minutes per day. Amazing results.

[Georgia Girl 2]

It will be available on the market in about 100 years.

[LibWhacker]

Robbins has a PhD in molecular biology from UC Berkeley. Niederndofer a PhD in biochemistry from Vanderbilt, and her MD degree from Vanderbilt. Kirkland comes closest perhaps, but the man’s no slouch. Just check his credentials. All are professors at top universities. There isn’t a naturopathic flake among them, lol.

[Secret Agent Man]

Naturopathic doctors are not flakes.

They get all the conventional schooling as these doctors did. Then they continue on and spend 3-4 years studying so they can treat diseases with natural substances. It’s not any different than a doctor going on to specialize in a certain area of expertise like the heart, or brain, or oncology.

[LibWhacker]

It's pseudoscientific BS. Does UC Berkeley have a dept. of naturopathy? Harvard? Stanford? Any top school? How about any middle of the road accredited school? Heck, any accredited school at all? No. And for good reason. It's pure quackery.

There are only four schools in the US teaching that nonsense (colonic detoxification, anyone?), and not one of them requires their students to spend any significant time in a residency program, or to get any significant hospital time in at all... Get all of the conventional schooling a regular doctor does, my eye!

If you have a serious illness and opt to go to a homeopath, naturopath, massage therapist, etc., you're taking your own life into your hands. You'd do just as well to beat feet south of the border and look up the nearest curandero, for all the good the former group of charlatans will do you.

[Secret Agent Man]

You are confusing non-doctors with actual doctors. Homeopaths and masage therapists, etc are not doctors of naturopathy. Your ignorance on the subject is clear to everyone. Naturopathic doctors are regular doctors with an additional 3-4 years of training using natural substances to help with conditions and diseases.

[publius911]

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[LibWhacker]

My ignorance??? You clearly know NOTHING about it. And where did I say massage therapists were doctors? A little reading comprehension wouldn’t hurt you. Afterwards you can google naturopaths and read all about the quackery they practice. They are unaccredited and unlicensed by EVERYONE who matters in medicine.

[Secret Agent Man]

I’m not wasting my time talking to a wall.

[LibWhacker]

Me either. But I will give you this one final challenge: Name one accredited school that trains those flakes. You can’t. Because they don’t exist. Half of the “schools” that do train them are diploma mills and/or outfits that are owned by Rev. Moon. The fact that you don’t know that or know what quacks they are speaks volumes about your “expertise.”

[Secret Agent Man]

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_accredited_schools_of_naturopathic_medicine_in_North_America

[LibWhacker]

There isn’t anything new or surprising in your list of “very distinguished” universities there, slick. How come you didn’t link to Bernadean University?... Oh, that’s right, it was SHUT DOWN FOR BEING AN ILLEGAL MAIL-ORDER NATUROPATH DIPLOMA MILL! Yeah, that’s who I want treating me for cancer, some naturopathic paranormal who snagged his degree from a bubble gum machine.

There is a long list of similar fraudulent institutions whose accreditation comes and goes, especially when you consider all of the other “alternative” medicine scams, perhaps according to whether or not they’ve kept bribe money pouring into democrat coffers? Anyway, QuackWatch does a good job documenting their on/off accreditation history.

[Secret Agent Man]

Look, jackwagon, you asked for ONE school, and all I did was find a list’of them. Switch to decaf.

[LibWhacker]

Yeah, school. As in a real one. Not one owned by the Unification Church or some mail-order diploma mill. Real school. Ya' know, where real teachers teach. Got one of those? 'Course not.

[Secret Agent Man]

http://www.ncnm.edu/about-ncnm/getting-to-know-ncnm/history.php

National College of Natural Medicine (NCNM) is the oldest programmatically accredited naturopathic medical school in North America.