Posts tagged “ #longreads”

  • Nir Barzilai has a plan. It’s a really big plan that might one day change medicine and health care as we know it. Its promise: extending our years of healthy, disease-free living by decades. And Barzilai knows about the science of aging. He is, after all, the director of the Institute for Aging Research at […]

    Forget the Blood of Teens. This Pill Promises to Extend Life for a Nickel a Pop

    Nir Barzilai has a plan. It’s a really big plan that might one day change medicine and health care as we know it. Its promise: extending our years of healthy, disease-free living by decades.And Barzilai knows about the science of aging. He is, after all, the director of the Institute for Aging Research at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in the Bronx. And, as such, he usually talks about his plan with the caution of a seasoned researcher. Usually. Truth is, Barzilai is known among his...
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  • It began while I was on a Hawaiian trip in May. I believed I’d simply fine-tuned my back raising a poolside easy chair. Back house, my pain in the back ended up being serious, and I began seeing nerve discomfort in my legs. For 8 days I might hardly crawl around your house. My other […]

    The Day I Found Out My Life Was Hanging by a Thread

    It began while I was on a Hawaiian trip in May. I believed I’d simply fine-tuned my back raising a poolside easy chair. Back house, my pain in the back ended up being serious, and I began seeing nerve discomfort in my legs. For 8 days I might hardly crawl around your house. My other half and 2 children nicknamed me “ the worm.” At 45, I ’ m in respectable shape-- devoted bicyclist, runner, weightlifter, yoga lover with a resting pulse in the 50s. So it was unusual when...
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