whoa dude, you are horribly misinformed. First of all, vitamin E does not decrease your lifespan! Vitamin E is an antioxidant that works synergistically with other antioxidants like Vitamin C, selenium, and glutathione to reduce your oxidative stress. Oxidative stress is thought to be one of the main causative factors in aging and antioxidants help to neutralize this stress. Heres some links to catch you up...
Linux Pauling Institute: Linus Pauling was a known advocate of Vitamin C and vitamins in general. The site is pretty informative on the role of nutrients, minerals, and vitamins, in our health as well as in our physiology.
if your feeling brave then here are some link so some pertinent research aticles.
The role of mitochondrial oxidative stress in aging
Ive also compiled quite a few relevant articles here
I suggest you get to reading!;)
marquis
It seems to me that Asians(esp. East Asians) actually tend to age much less than caucasians. Japan especially tends to have a lot of very old people, I remember in 2003 the oldest person in the world was Japanese, they died, and then again the oldest person in the world was Japanese
It seems that its probably a combination of diet/lifestyle.They also tend to drink lots of tea(real tea, green,black,etc). In general, taking care of yourself(i.e. eating the right foods, exercising, etc) can easily allow you to be active until your in your 80's. Aging is a combination of factors that is thought to cause cumulative damage as we get older. However, a proper lifestyle can greatly ameliorate these effects.
Also, I think its important to realize that aging is not a result of a single gene, rather its the interactions between all the genes that gives the overall phenotype of aging. The reductionist attitude works well in basic science, however applying that knowledge to something as complex and dynamic as our physiology is alot more difficult.
marquis
Yeah, microbial nanowires must be the solution, because it's not like the human body has a thing for attacking foriegn cells, especially bacteria, right?
Youre assuming that you would need to inject the bacteria into the body which may or may not be the case since nowadays genes can easily be expressed outside the host organism.
Just because someone else sat in the lab and ran the experiments doesn't mean that conclusions drawn by others based on the same dataset should be credited to the original person that ran the experiments. I think that credit should be given to Watson and Crick for putting together lots of other pieces of knowledge and drawing a conclusion that fits all the data from all the sources in question. That's not stealing, that's not cheating . . . that's just good science.
"If it is that I have seen far, it is because I have stood on the shoulders of giants" -Albert Einstein
As is alluded to by the above quite, most science is based on the work of others before you. Good science is crediting others for their contributions, not using another data without giving credit or acknowledgement. This is exactly what watson and crick did. Rosalind's Crystallography data was essential for determining the structure of DNA, irregardless of what an article says. Do the research and you'll see.
Furthermore, a quick comment on Francis Crick. About a year back I saw him speak at Cal Tech and my impression of him was that he was an extremely arrogant individual. In fact, someone actually asked him about Franklin contributions and he simply dismissed her and her contributions without hesitation. One thing to know is that great scientists are not always great people.
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whoa dude, you are horribly misinformed. First of all, vitamin E does not decrease your lifespan! Vitamin E is an antioxidant that works synergistically with other antioxidants like Vitamin C, selenium, and glutathione to reduce your oxidative stress. Oxidative stress is thought to be one of the main causative factors in aging and antioxidants help to neutralize this stress. Heres some links to catch you up... Linux Pauling Institute: Linus Pauling was a known advocate of Vitamin C and vitamins in general. The site is pretty informative on the role of nutrients, minerals, and vitamins, in our health as well as in our physiology. if your feeling brave then here are some link so some pertinent research aticles. The role of mitochondrial oxidative stress in aging Ive also compiled quite a few relevant articles here I suggest you get to reading! ;)
marquis
And I guess you believe everything the government says.
Just because someone else sat in the lab and ran the experiments doesn't mean that conclusions drawn by others based on the same dataset should be credited to the original person that ran the experiments. I think that credit should be given to Watson and Crick for putting together lots of other pieces of knowledge and drawing a conclusion that fits all the data from all the sources in question. That's not stealing, that's not cheating . . . that's just good science.
"If it is that I have seen far, it is because I have stood on the shoulders of giants"
-Albert Einstein
As is alluded to by the above quite, most science is based on the work of others before you. Good science is crediting others for their contributions, not using another data without giving credit or acknowledgement. This is exactly what watson and crick did. Rosalind's Crystallography data was essential for determining the structure of DNA, irregardless of what an article says. Do the research and you'll see.
Furthermore, a quick comment on Francis Crick. About a year back I saw him speak at Cal Tech and my impression of him was that he was an extremely arrogant individual. In fact, someone actually asked him about Franklin contributions and he simply dismissed her and her contributions without hesitation. One thing to know is that great scientists are not always great people.
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