Stephan: After you read this, particularly if you are an older individual you might consider some alterations in your diet. I take this as good news.
Citation for the paper referenced in this report:
Matthew J. Rossman, Jessica R. Santos-Parker, Chelsea A.C. Steward, Nina Z. Bispham, Lauren M. Cuevas, Hannah L. Rosenberg, Kayla A. Woodward, Michel Chonchol, Rachel A. Gioscia-Ryan, Michael P. Murphy, Douglas R. Seals.
Chronic Supplementation With a Mitochondrial Antioxidant (MitoQ) Improves Vascular Function in Healthy Older Adults.
Hypertension, 2018; HYPERTENSIONAHA.117.10787 DOI:
10.1161/HYPERTENSIONAHA.117.10787
The study, published this week in the American Heart Association journal Hypertension, adds to a growing body of evidence suggesting pharmaceutical-grade nutritional supplements, or nutraceuticals, could play an important role in preventing heart disease-the nation’s No. 1 killer. It also resurrects the notion that oral antioxidants, which have been broadly dismissed as ineffective in recent years, could reap measurable health benefits if properly targeted, the authors say.
“This is the first clinical trial to assess the impact of a mitochondrial-specific antioxidant on vascular function in humans,” said lead author Matthew Rossman, a postdoctoral researcher in the department of integrative physiology. “It suggests that therapies like this may hold real promise for reducing the risk of age-related cardiovascular disease.”
For the study, Rossman and senior author Doug Seals, director of the Integrative Physiology of Aging Laboratory, recruited 20 healthy men and […]
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Ian Millhiser, - Think Progress
Stephan: I have been telling my readers for months that one of the most enduring degradations of American democracy that Trump is effecting are his appointments to the bench. They are the same kinds of ideological sleazeballs he has appointed to every other post in government.
These are lifetime appoints of early middle aged individuals who will serve for decades. Here is an example of what I mean. This is a very serious problem that gets almost no popular mainstream media coverage.
James C. Ho, Trump nominated judge Credit: Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call
Judge James Ho has been a federal judge for only a few months. Until Wednesday, he had never handed down a judicial opinion in his life. But the Trump appointee’s very first opinion, a dissent calling for a sweeping assault on campaign contribution limits, is a doozy.
More than just an ideologically radical opinion, Judge Ho’s dissent from the full United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit’s decision not to rehear Zimmerman v. City of Austin is a monument to conservative political rhetoric and right-wing historical myths. It’s the sort of commentary one would expect to find in an especially strident political magazine — perhaps one of the publications one of Ho’s current law clerks used to write for. It is emphatically not the sort of writing one expects to find in a judicial opinion.
Newly confirmed judges — or, at least, newly confirmed judges who aren’t named “Neil Gorsuch” — are typically more careful than this. They […]
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Cody Fenwick , - Alternet
Stephan: In my view the charter school movement championed by Secretary of Education Betsy Devos has three purposes none of which proponents acknowledge:
1.) To end public education
2.) To indoctrinate the peasants so they are pliable ignorant twits who will vote as they're told.
3.) To use the peasants as valves to tap the public treasury to further enrich, the already rich.
Here is an example of exactly what I mean.
An enraged father was in disbelief when he saw his eighth grader’s homework assignment. The student was given a paper with two columns to fill out by listing the “positive aspects” and the “negative aspects” of life as a slave.
The worksheet was titled: “The Life of Slaves: A Balanced View.”
“What the hell is this revisionist history lesson trying to achieve here?!?” asked father Roberto Livar in a furious Facebook post.
Roberto’s child, Manu, attends the San Antonio, Texas charter school Great Hearts Monte Vista, CNN reported.
The school has now come out and distanced itself from the assignment.
“To be clear, there is no debate about slavery. It is immoral and a crime against humanity,” Superintendent Aaron Kindel said in a statement.
He continued: “Our review of the situation found this incident to be limited to one teacher at just one campus. It was a clear mistake and we sincerely apologize for the insensitive nature of this offense. We want to thank the parents who voiced their concern and brought this to our attention.”
The teacher who gave the assignment has been put on leave, the […]
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Older adults who take a novel antioxidant that specifically targets cellular powerhouses, or mitochondria, see age-related vascular changes reverse by the equivalent of 15 to 20 years within six weeks, according to new University of Colorado Boulder research.
