Excellent PR-Puff piece for *Elysium ..

Originally shared by Adam Black

Excellent PR-Puff piece for *Elysium ..
( supplement company marketing suckering #Transhumanists ) 
...with no small amount of passive-aggressive slander for the entire supplement industry,  and Life-Extension crowd. 

<*Sorry for the stub. My cut and paste isnt working . Click through its still worth reading  http://www.fastcoexist.com/3041800/one-of-the-worlds-top-aging-researchers-has-a-pill-to-keep-you-feeling-young *>

Elysium has a pill based off Resveratrol ,  ( but not ) thats supposed to help mimic lowcalorie diets, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caloric_restriction_mimetic

 and turn on the Sirt2 gene;
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calorie_restriction#Sirtuin-mediated_mechanism

which is supposed to boost communication between between the 2 genomes ( Mitochondria and Nucleus ) .   

Im sharing this , because Elysium Health  and this article are strongly aiming at a target market of   #Transhumans   .

Two major relevant discoveries absent from this article ( PR Puff-piece )  are (1) PQQ  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyrroloquinoline_quinone
which has been shown to increase #  of mitochondria  ( woo-hoo! ) and mitigate cognitive decline from a number of disease processes. 

( From Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, dementia  to traumatic brain Injury ) 
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3303106/

and (2) the recent major New discovery concerning
Beta-Hydroxy Butyrate (  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beta-Hydroxybutyric_acid ) 
which I reported here... 
>>> seriously,  Go Here>>>
https://plus.google.com/+AdamBlack/posts/6PrbSXG48a8

Its relevant as BHB is produced during low-carlorie diets and new research suggests may be responsible for many of the positive health benefits 

Edit  I am not suggesting Elysium is peddling radically overpriced snake oil --- which if you had half a brain you would buy at 1/3 price elsewhere .

Nor am I insinuating that they are unethically using the allure of scientific research,  to illegally make lots of claims,  without any solid  benefits for their products. All the while slandering companies selling better products with decades of solid research ( like PQQ ) . I'm not saying this.  

Just like Elysium cant actually legally say  their products can help you, or their ridiculous buzzwordy claims  ( ZOMG: "longevity""healthspan"  "machine learning"?  "cellular health" ) are backed up  with any human evidence.

  #extropian       #HumanPlus     #Elysium

related links
Pterostilbene 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pterostilbene
A Resveratrol analogue
Pterostilbene and Resveratrol on Brain and Behavior
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S019701861530019X  

Its in Grapeleaves, but not grapes. 

( someone Please jailbreak this>> ) Examines role in #Cognitive decline 

http://hms.harvard.edu/news/genetics/new-reversible-cause-aging-12-19-13  ( they claim its NAD. I'm skeptical ) 

NAD>>  ( its a B3 based co-enzyme  nucleotide ) 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicotinamide_adenine_dinucleotide

But from this article  you would never know NADH has been a major supplement for decades.  ( Hint, Krebs Cycle for those who misremember any Biology ) 

#ScienceOnGooglePlus  
http://www.fastcoexist.com/3041800/one-of-the-worlds-top-aging-researchers-has-a-pill-to-keep-you-feeling-young

#Transhumanists are often bio-phobic; they forget biological organisms are #machines too.

Originally shared by Singularity 2045

#Transhumanists are often bio-phobic; they forget biological organisms are #machines too. In the not too distant future we will rewrite the code of biological systems to create absolutely anything.

At the moment we are hardly scratching the surface, but gene-therapy, synbio, and biotech already reveal awesome possibilities.

Here is an article from PopSci (20 May 2015) regarding a synthesis of #bacteria and concrete, to create self-healing concrete. Biocrete?

At the moment this biocrete is a crude exploitation of #biological potential. In the future bacteria and other organisms will be re-engineered in novel ways, to produce astounding solutions. Imagine transforming the bacteria within biocrete into biological computers, while retaining their traditional bacterial qualities, we could then have self-healing super-intelligent biological buildings, perhaps?

PopSci: "The bacteria are packaged in minuscule pellets, which together look like a fine, white powder. These pellets contain dormant Bacillus and/or Sporosarcina bacteria, as well as their food source, calcium lactate. The powdery substances are then mixed into wet concrete before it gets poured into place. When a crack forms and water seeps in, the bacteria "wake up," and start eating the food. As a result, the bacteria excrete a hard limestone filler, which fills in the crack and prevents the water from doing more damage (such as rusting the steel bars that are present in a lot of concrete structures)."
http://www.popsci.com/futuristic-concrete-heals-itself-built-bacteria-0