@agingdoc.bsky.social
Longevity medicine best practices | healthspan | precision medicine | geroscience | bio/acc | consulting @ agingdoc.com Connect: http://linkedin.com/in/agingdoc
Boston’s Longevity Obsession: What Works and What’s Expensive BS
We're becoming more & more obsessed with living forever—but not all the treatments are created equal. What works, what doesn’t and whether optimizing every aspect of your life is really worth it.
www.bostonmagazine.com/news/2026/01...
How to Make Friends as an Adult
A practical guide for expanding your circle, with advice from sociable people.
www.nytimes.com/article/how-... @nytstyle.bsky.social
Glucagon-like peptide-1 medicines and cancer
www.nature.com/articles/s43...
Senate advances bills rejecting Trump’s efforts to slash research funding 🧪
The White House requested cuts of 40% or more at some agencies. But lawmakers from both parties are pushing to hold science spending relatively steady.
www.highereddive.com/news/senate-...
Irradiated cannabis might still harbour toxic fungi and residues, McGill study finds
Researchers raise concerns about possible health risks for vulnerable users, point to a need for better methods and safeguards
www.mcgill.ca/newsroom/cha...
Targeted delivery of genome editors in vivo
🧬"Targeted delivery promises to considerably expand the therapeutic applicability of genome editing, moving closer to the ideal of a precise ‘magic bullet’ that safely and effectively treats diverse genetic disorders." 🩺
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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13.01.2026 15:16 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0My friend Andrew Steele is building this:
The majority of poor health and deaths globally are caused by diseases that become common with age...
"But public policy has yet to catch up.. & longevity science is underappreciated, and underfunded
We exist to change that" 🧑⚕️⚕️
thelongevityinitiative.org
This company is developing gene therapies for muscle growth, erectile dysfunction, and “radical longevity”
💉 A small group of volunteers will receive multiple injections of the experimental treatments next month, says Unlimited Bio 👨🏻⚕️
t.co/hMdyfVk58W
Interrupting Prolonged Sitting Reduces Postprandial Glucose Concentration in Young Men With Central Obesity
👉 Interrupted prolonged sitting [3 min light walking or 1.5 minutes of moderate walking every 30 minutes] reduced postprandial glucose concentrations.
academic.oup.com/jcem/article...
People often ask me the same question:
“What’s the single most promising anti-aging measure coming in the next decade?”
If you care about where longevity medicine is truly heading, this one’s worth a look.
🔗https://www.instagram.com/reel/DRni2qQgNTS
Semaglutide versus caloric restriction-induced weight loss: insights into effects on skeletal muscle mass and function
"[suggests] loss of muscle function and mass during treatment is not unique to GLP-1RA pharmacology but rather reflects the biology of caloric restriction…"
x.com/agingdoc1/st...
My post from Founders Forum North America (NYC) 🗽
🔗 www.linkedin.com/posts/agingd... 🚀
AI Learns to Design the Human Body’s Most Elusive Proteins
🤩 Summary: A new machine learning method has achieved what even AlphaFold cannot… their ever-changing structures have defied traditional AI prediction models.
neurosciencenews.com/ai-protein-d...
Scientists make embryos from human skin DNA for first time
www.bbc.com/news/article...
This AI tool predicts your risk of 1,000 diseases — by looking at your medical records
Trained on 400,000 medical records, the system can predict risks 20 years in advance — plus, how AIs could make you more likely to cheat
nature.com/articles/d41...
@shamini.bsky.social 🧪
Sex-specific longitudinal reversal of aging in old frail mice
www.aging-us.com/article/2063...
The evolution of cancer and ageing: a history of constraint
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
@erictopol.bsky.social is right — we haven’t rigorously validated gerotherapeutics in humans, and even if we did, we’d need to show they also compress morbidity.
Some source for optimism: for some animal models, better healthspan can track increased longevity.
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...
Fraudulent Scientific Papers Are Rapidly Increasing, Study Finds
A statistical analysis found that the number of fake journal articles being churned out by “paper mills” is doubling every year and a half. 🤯
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/04/s...
See you there!
02.08.2025 16:05 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0👍
You’re not on X anymore right (making sure I didn’t miss you there for cross-posting)?
Keep up the great work Laura!
Healthy Lifestyle Can Help People at Risk for Dementia, Study Finds
The study found that a combination of exercise, healthy diet and other behaviors led to cognitive benefits…
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/28/h...
DNA Methylation Ageing Atlas Across 17 Human Tissues
👉“Our open-access atlas provides a foundational resource for dissecting the molecular architecture of human aging and identifying testable targets for intervention..”
@nireynon.bsky.social and coauthors
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Editorial: Resilience in aging
@drlaurahaynes.bsky.social and coauthors
www.frontiersin.org/journals/agi...
AlphaGo Moment for Model Architecture Discovery
👉“ASI-Arch is presented, the first demonstration of Artificial Superintelligence for AI research (ASI4AI) in the critical domain of neural architecture discovery, with the first empirical scaling law for scientific discovery itself..“
t.co/ljJ1fXsslE
Fearful of AI-generated grant proposals, NIH limits scientists to six applications per year
Some critics of the new policy say the cap could hinder researchers in need of funding
www.science.org/content/arti...
'They hold hands, they embrace, they kiss': The woman who changed our view of chimps - and human beings
www.bbc.com/culture/arti...
Just How Harmful Is Vaping? More Evidence Is Emerging.
A new study that found high levels of heavy metals in popular nicotine vapes adds to concerns about the products.
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/09/w...
