1 posted on
02/18/2011 9:29:38 PM PST by
neverdem
To: neverdem
To: neverdem
These folks would live forever except, according to the article, they’re all accident-prone alcoholics. So maybe the gene that keeps them cancer free also makes them accident-prone alcoholics instead?
3 posted on
02/18/2011 9:41:12 PM PST by
Alter Kaker
(Gravitation is a theory, not a fact. It should be approached with an open mind...)
To: austinmark; FreedomCalls; IslandJeff; JRochelle; MarMema; Txsleuth; Newtoidaho; texas booster; ...
This discovery could lead to a drug that inhibits a part of this cell signaling pathway, thus restoring the insulin sensitivity in many, if not most, type II diabetics. I wouldn't hold my breath. If it pans out, it could take a number or years.
FReepmail me if you want on or off the diabetes ping list.
5 posted on
02/18/2011 9:56:39 PM PST by
neverdem
(Xin loi minh oi)
To: neverdem
A 67-year-old man who has Laron-type dwarfism with his daughter, 5, and sons, 7 and 10.
To: neverdem
Little things mean a lot.
To: neverdem; All
My grandfather was a smallish man of Welsh, Scots, English ancestry who lived to be 98. All his siblings except the youngest lived into their 90’s, and one lived to 103 or 104. I have heard that large men tend to die sooner.
8 posted on
02/18/2011 10:04:13 PM PST by
gleeaikin
To: neverdem
Also probably were never vacinnated with tainted vaccines that had SV-40 and other cancer causing agents in them.
9 posted on
02/18/2011 10:05:07 PM PST by
Secret Agent Man
(I'd like to tell you, but then I'd have to kill you.)
To: neverdem
So? Helen Thomas was there at the signing of the Declaration of Independence and this deficiency explains her longevity...aside from sucking the blood of virgins every full moon.
To: SunkenCiv; blam
14 posted on
02/18/2011 10:32:41 PM PST by
Tainan
(Cogito Ergo Conservitus.)
To: neverdem
Bilbo Baggins lived a long life, too.
16 posted on
02/18/2011 10:48:46 PM PST by
Defiant
(There is no line on the march towards marxism that Democrats won't cross. Democrat=CPUSA)
To: neverdem
Oompa loompa, doo-pah-dee-doo! I've got another riddle for you!Yes, but can they mix chocolate?
17 posted on
02/18/2011 11:37:39 PM PST by
mrreaganaut
(weltschmerz: the sadness one feels when contemplating how far the real world is from an ideal world.)
To: Slings and Arrows
I’m sure you have some kind of comment...like “ewoks”, or something.
19 posted on
02/19/2011 12:32:35 AM PST by
dixiechick2000
("First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they fight you, then you win." - Gandhi)
To: neverdem
Very interesting. My brother was diagnosed with deadly melanoma just two weeks ago and he has diabetes. The PET scan just came back this morning negative for metastases, making him maybe the luckiest guy on the planet. I just about wrote a whole book on melanoma in the last two eeks and te link to diabetes came up.
23 posted on
02/19/2011 3:54:28 AM PST by
DaxtonBrown
(HARRY: Money Mob & Influence (See my Expose on Reid on amazon.com written by me!))
To: neverdem
-——Sephardic Jews from Spain and Portugal who were forced to convert to Christianity in the 1490s but were nonetheless persecuted in the Inquisition-———
Hmmm...... the inquisition of peace
24 posted on
02/19/2011 4:43:31 AM PST by
bert
(K.E. N.P. N.C. D.E. +12 ....( History is a process, not an event ))
To: neverdem
My grandmother lived to 106. Of normal stature, her longevity was attributed to the bowl of oatmeal she had for breakfast every morning. BTW, in her late 90s she flipped her walker at a home intruder and scared him off :) Oatmeal power!
To: neverdem
The villagers are very small, generally less than three and a half feet tall, and have a rare condition known as Laron syndrome or Laron-type dwarfism. They are probably the descendants of conversos, Sephardic Jews from Spain and Portugal who were forced to convert to Christianity in the 1490s but were nonetheless persecuted in the Inquisition. They are also almost completely free of two age-related diseases, cancer and diabetes.
To: neverdem
Simple explanation: Not tainted by liberalism!
31 posted on
02/19/2011 10:18:55 AM PST by
Citizen X_Area 51
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