Category: Health
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Vitamin A and Life Expectancy in Africa
I referred to a 2018 paper on presence of vitamin A fortification in cooking oil of low-income countries to determine if there was any impact on life expectancy. Cooking oil provides a quite pervasive source of Vitamin A, because not only is it used to fry foods, it’s also often a key ingredient in baked…
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What’s Really Responsible for Improving Vision Over Time: Wealth Changes vs Vitamin A Supplementation
After reading my prior analysis on Vitamin A supplementation and life expectancy in Africa, you may have the following objections: Ok, lets solve these issues by: We will use the following data sources: World Economic Outlook (April 2024) – GDP per capita, current prices (imf.org) Coverage at a Crossroads: New directions for Vitamin A supplementation…
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Squeeze & Freeze: Vasper Systems Brings Performance, Longevity Benefits
Vasper Systems is bringing a new method of performance enhancement to athletes and longevity seekers. Instead of using hormone injections or Autologous blood therapy—a process of removing a patients blood, stimulating it to release hormones and stem cells, then replacing it. The Vasper System uses 3 simple, well known principles used by performance athletes: exercise,…
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Architecture of the Zinc Gang
A tale of syndicate members named “gag knuckles”, “taz-two”, “hairpin”, “ribbons”, and “treble clef” is quite intriguing. Although they sound more like nicknames of a 1920’s bootlegging gang (at least to me) they are the formal nomenclature of a biochemical classification system, known commonly as zinc fingers (ZnF). The taxonomy of zinc fingers describes the…
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Harvard Releases Updated Numbers on Glycemic Index
The extreme diabetes and weight related problems in the U.S. as opposed to other developed countries has been laid at the feet of widespread sugar and corn subsidies. Harvard has released the latest numbers on the Glycemic Index on dozens of different foods. The data may surprise you as some foods marketed as “healthy” are…