Comments on: Blueberries and health – the research case http://anti-agingfirewalls.com/2009/09/03/blueberries-and-health-%e2%80%93-the-research-case/ A weblog on the science and practices of living healthily very long - perhaps hundreds of years. Thu, 09 Sep 2010 10:03:20 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2.1 By: eric25001 http://anti-agingfirewalls.com/2009/09/03/blueberries-and-health-%e2%80%93-the-research-case/#comment-4125 eric25001 Wed, 23 Sep 2009 03:14:21 +0000 http://anti-agingfirewalls.com/2009/09/03/blueberries-and-health-%e2%80%93-the-research-case/#comment-4125 Like Greg I would like to thank you. I also have some diet related information and questions. A few (many) studies indicate that diet effects life span. However, more than just calories seems to be involved. What biomarkers can we look for to see how our diet is working? A1C, CRP, ?? Many of the up or down regulated genes associated with life span are not generally available. I would like to see a shoy gun approach to study diet and aging in yeast, worms, flies, and mice/rats to look at sources of carbs (Sucrose, glucose, maltose, lactose, alcohol (proaging) glycerol); and then protein (each amino acid tested and levels tested and vegtable vs animal tested; and our fat or lipid sources from olive oil to corn oil to fish oil to beef tallow Trans fat, mono saturated, poly saturated It has been reported that yeast live longer when the carbohydrate is switched to glycerol. This leads to the possibility of a switch in the American diet of about 40% of our calories from sugars like High Fructose Corn Syrup to Glycerol. Glycerol Provides a Carbon Source without Blocking the Anti-Aging Effect of Calorie Restriction http://www.plosgenetics.org/article/info:doi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pgen.1000467 Have you heard or read any updates? I have also read the experiment of switching flies from a diet higher in carbs or higher in protein. http://www.plosbiology.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pbio.0030223 And mice or rats need the amino acid methionine but low mythynine diets extend life span http://lib.bioinfo.pl/pmid:12543260 and also studies that suport fat from fish is better than corn oil for rats. So it seems that sources or types of Carbohydrates, protein, and fat need a lot more study. Why has so little research been done in the the last 70 years? Like Greg I would like to thank you. I also have some diet related information and questions. A few (many) studies indicate that diet effects life span. However, more than just calories seems to be involved. What biomarkers can we look for to see how our diet is working? A1C, CRP, ??
Many of the up or down regulated genes associated with life span are not generally available.

I would like to see a shoy gun approach to study diet and aging in yeast, worms, flies, and mice/rats to look at sources of carbs (Sucrose, glucose, maltose, lactose, alcohol (proaging) glycerol); and then protein (each amino acid tested and levels tested and vegtable vs animal tested; and our fat or lipid sources from olive oil to corn oil to fish oil to beef tallow Trans fat, mono saturated, poly saturated

It has been reported that yeast live longer when the carbohydrate is switched to glycerol. This leads to the possibility of a switch in the American diet of about 40% of our calories from sugars like High Fructose Corn Syrup to Glycerol.

Glycerol Provides a Carbon Source without Blocking the Anti-Aging Effect of Calorie Restriction

http://www.plosgenetics.org/article/info:doi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pgen.1000467

Have you heard or read any updates?

I have also read the experiment of switching flies from a diet higher in carbs or higher in protein.

http://www.plosbiology.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pbio.0030223

And mice or rats need the amino acid methionine but low mythynine diets extend life span

http://lib.bioinfo.pl/pmid:12543260

and also studies that suport fat from fish is better than corn oil for rats.

So it seems that sources or types of Carbohydrates, protein, and fat need a lot more study. Why has so little research been done in the the last 70 years?

]]> By: admin http://anti-agingfirewalls.com/2009/09/03/blueberries-and-health-%e2%80%93-the-research-case/#comment-3843 admin Thu, 03 Sep 2009 16:52:29 +0000 http://anti-agingfirewalls.com/2009/09/03/blueberries-and-health-%e2%80%93-the-research-case/#comment-3843 Greg You are welcome. Again,comments like yours keep me going. Vince Greg
You are welcome. Again,comments like yours keep me going.
Vince

]]> By: Greg http://anti-agingfirewalls.com/2009/09/03/blueberries-and-health-%e2%80%93-the-research-case/#comment-3842 Greg Thu, 03 Sep 2009 15:29:50 +0000 http://anti-agingfirewalls.com/2009/09/03/blueberries-and-health-%e2%80%93-the-research-case/#comment-3842 Thanks for all of the great information you have been collecting and making available! I've learned a lot from all of your work and really appreciate it! Thanks for all of the great information you have been collecting and making available! I’ve learned a lot from all of your work and really appreciate it!

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