Browse by Tags

• aging
• Anti-Aging
• ben best
• cerebral ischemia
• critical theory
• cryonics
• cryonics institute
• death
• depressed metabolism
• dietary supplements
• health
• meliorism
• neuroscience
• philosophy
• science
• skepticism
• stroke
• Thomas Donaldson

• The healthy skeptic

  (Crossposted from Depressed Metabolism ) Consumers are constantly bombarded with advice about health. Lower your cholesterol, avoid carbs, take dietary supplements, avoid Teflon, get a full body scan, etc. Such advice does not fall on deaf ears. Who does Read More...
  Posted Friday, January 23, 2009 6:54 AM by Aschwin de Wolf / 0 Comments

  Tags: dietary supplements, life extension, health, science, meliorism, skepticism

• First anniversary of Depressed Metabolism

  (Crossposted from Depressed Metabolism ) On September 6, 2007 we launched the blog Depressed Metabolism for a number of reasons. The most important one was to launch a blog with a strong emphasis on cryonics . Although there are a number of good blogs Read More...
  Posted Saturday, September 06, 2008 1:02 PM by Aschwin de Wolf / 0 Comments

  Tags: cryonics, aging, life extension, depressed metabolism

• Dietary supplements induce neurogenesis after stroke

  (Crossposted from Depressed Metabolism ) A recent study in Rejuvenation Research reports that a combination of dietary supplements confer neuroprotection in stroke. Over a 2 week period rats received either a proprietary formulation of blueberry, green Read More...
  Posted Wednesday, August 27, 2008 10:51 AM by Aschwin de Wolf / 0 Comments

  Tags: life extension, cerebral ischemia, stroke, neuroscience, health

• Thomas Donaldson on cryonics and anti-aging

  (Crossposted from Depressed Metabolism ) Just a superficial look at the history of the life extension movement will suffice to show the rise and fall of numerous fads and trends in ideas about the mechanisms and “treatment” of aging. Psychological Read More...
  Posted Tuesday, August 19, 2008 6:49 AM by Aschwin de Wolf / 0 Comments

  Tags: cryonics, aging, life extension, Anti-Aging, Thomas Donaldson

• Interview with Cryonics Institute president Ben Best

  (Crossposted from Depressed Metabolism ) This is the first in a series of interviews with individuals in the life extension and cryonics movement. We start off with an interview with Ben Best, president of the Cryonics Institute . What is your philosophy Read More...
  Posted Monday, August 11, 2008 6:10 AM by Aschwin de Wolf / 0 Comments

  Tags: cryonics, aging, life extension, ben best, cryonics institute

• Herbert Marcuse on the ideology of death

  (Crossposted from Depressed Metabolism ) Although critical philosophers like Herbert Marcuse (1898 – 1979) are not known for their contributions to economics or analytical philosophy, Marcuse’s essay “The Ideology of Death” (1952) Read More...
  Posted Saturday, August 02, 2008 10:19 AM by Aschwin de Wolf / 1 Comments

  Tags: death, life extension, critical theory, philosophy

• Curing aging does not make cryonics redundant

  (Crossposted from Depressed Metabolism ) Most life extensionists and transhumanists do not buy into many of the myths about cryonics . But one perspective that is sometimes voiced by futurists is that cryonics is a rational backup plan until aging is Read More...
  Posted Wednesday, July 16, 2008 6:34 AM by Aschwin de Wolf / 0 Comments

  Tags: cryonics, death, aging, dietary supplements, life extension

• Selection bias and dietary supplements

  (Crossposted from Depressed Metabolism ) One problem in assessing the merits of taking a specific dietary supplement (ranging from vitamins to exotic multi-ingredient compounds) is widespread selection bias in the documentation that is supposed to support Read More...
  Posted Saturday, July 12, 2008 6:55 AM by Aschwin de Wolf / 0 Comments

  Tags: aging, dietary supplements, life extension