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Are Sex and Pickleball Keys to Longevity?

14 Feb 2025

This article was first published in The Montreal Gazette....

Mitochondrial Dysfunction Is a Bit of a Fad

14 Feb 2025

There is a shell game at the heart of Robert F. Kennedy Jr’s Make America Healthy Again campaign, and it has to do with the mitochondrion.

The Life and Death of a Soviet-Era Search for Longevity

20 Sep 2024

This article was first published in The Montreal Gazette. Want to prolong life? To start with, you need three corpses from healthy young men accidentally killed in within the previous 12 hours.

Reservations About Resveratrol

14 Jan 2021

In 1940 Japanese researcher Michio Takaoka submitted his thesis for a graduate degree in which he described studies of plants with a folkloric history of having medicinal properties. Such studies...

Eating Less and Living More

20 Mar 2017

They feast on croissants that ooze butter. They eat creamy cheeses and fat-filled pastries. Breakfast is pain-au-chocolat washed down with espresso. There is no oatmeal in sight. I suspect most of...

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