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April 26, 2012; Click for a Flash Animation of
Scope of the Universe , a video assembled by a pair of 14 yo twin brothers; TRT = 6:25
min. This animation will give students of gerontology a feeling for the vast dynamic range {from
atoms and molecules to organelles, cells, tissues, organs, subsystems, and our largest Earthly
creatures, whales} about 10 orders of magnitude, in which Darwinian stochastic processes have
been operating on our relatively undistinguished planet for more than five billion years. Aging
and senescence can take place at any one of the ten levels.
May 12, 2012; Click for a scan of a small portion of a
mouse brain , in a false-colorized video (to the accompaniment of classical music) that
reveals the complexity of the mammalian brain in unprecedented detail (as published by Stephen
Smith of the Department of Molecular and Cellular Physiology at Stanford University in the
journal Neuron (2010). (TRT = 4:26 min.)
Click on either of the photos above for 41 PowerPoint slides on "The Secrets of the Oldest Old". [Microsoft browser Internet Explorer ver. 7.0.6 or above preferred.] This presentation was given by L. Stephen Coles at the SENS-3 Conference at Queen's College, Cambridge University; UK on Thursday, September 6, 2007; [3:35 3:50] PM GMT.
1. Jon Eisenberg, Using Terri: The Religious Right's Conspiracy to Take Away Our Rights (Hardcover; 288 pages; ISBN: 0060877324; Harper, San Francisco, CA; 2005; $15.72 on Amazon.com).
Comment: "If you care about preserving your right to control how you die this book will prove to be vital reading." -- Prof. Arthur Caplan, The Emanuel and Robert Hart Professor of Bioethics, Chair of the Department of Medical Ethics, and Director, Center for Bioethics University of Pennsylvania.
2. Michael Schiavo and Michael Hirsh Terri: The Truth (Hardcover; 384 pages; ISBN: 0525949461; Dutton Adult, New York; 2006; $15.72 on Amazon.com).
3. Mary and Robert Schindler, Bobby Schindler, Terri's Family, and Suzanne Schindler Vitadamo, A Life That Matters: The Legacy of Terri Schiavo -- A Lesson for Us All, (Hardcover, 272 pages; ISBN: 0446579874; Warner Books, New York; 2006; $15.57 on Amazon.com).
Click on either of the photos above to review the 29 PowerPoint slides of the Autopsy of
California Supercentenarian, Mr. George Johnson, 112 yo World War I Veteran performed at the
Palo Alto VA Hospital, presented by L. Stephen Coles at Noon on Saturday, November 11th at
The Age Management Medicine Conference at the Red Rock Hotel and Casino in Las
Vegas, NV.
Click to view the 28 PowerPoint slides presented by Prof. S. Jay Olshansky of the University of Illinois at the Longevity Dividend Conference on Tuesday, September 12, 2006 at 11:30 AM EDT at the Hart Senate Office Bldg. in Washington, D.C. sponsored by The Alliance for Aging Research to an audience of about 60 persons. Jay made it clear that, although he believes that stopping or reversing human aging is still practically impossible, he and some of his colleagues now endorse the prospect of slowing the aging process through various types of medical interventions. Jay and the next speaker, Prof. Leonard Guarente of MIT, addressed the topic of "How Soon before Science Can Slow Aging and at What Cost?"
Click on the photo of the King Frederick II's Palace [1296 - 1336] above (which is the oldest
building still standing in Palermo with its original Roman arches preserved inside) to review the
39 PowerPoint slides now containing photos taken at The Third International
Conference on Functional Genomics and Aging, [March 29th - April 1st] in Polermo, Sicily;
ITALY on the topic of "Why Supercentenarians Live So Long?" by L. Stephen Coles.
Click on the photo of Jay P. Sharma, CEO of Celprogen, Inc. for the 23 PowerPoint slides from our January 2006 LA-GRG Guest Lecture at UCLA on "Synchronized Contraction of Differentiated Cardiomyocyte Stem Cells Derived from Tissue Culture."
Click on the photo of Dr. Jennifer R. Berman, M.D. for her 47 PowerPoint slides from our February 2006 LA-GRG Guest Lecture at UCLA on "Female Sexual Medicine."
Click on the photo for 121 PowerPoint slides taken from the presentation on Bioethics for Anti-Aging Medicine by L. Stephen Coles, M.D., Ph.D. presented at the 2nd Annual East-Coast Primedia Anti-Aging Conference held at the Palm Beach Convention Center in Palm Beach, FL on Saturday Morning, November 19, 2005; [8:45 - 10:15] AM EST). The audio and video clips linked to the PowerPoint slides have been deleted to conserve on bandwidth. A full VHS Video Tape is available upon request. Click to obtain your free copy of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute DVD on "Ethics in Biomedical Research."
Click on Stan's photo for the PowerPoint slides on the Supercentenarian Research Foundation by Stanley Primmer, Elliot Bergman, and L. Stephen Coles presented at the 34th Annual Scientific Meeting of the American Aging Association (AGE) in Oakland, CA (Saturday, June 3, 2005 [5:30 - 6:30] PM PDT).
77-slide PowerPoint-Presentation (but without video clips) of Dr. Stephen Coles's
talk on "Ethical Challenges in Anti-Aging Research --
Profits vs. Science" presented on Tuesday, March 16, 2004 at a Noon-time Seminar on
Medicine, Ethics, and Human Values at the Santa Monica UCLA Medical Center (best viewed in
Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0 or greater). Click on the photo for the slides.
90-slide PowerPoint-Presentation (including background slides but, due to
bandwidth limitations, without audio or ten video clips) from Dr. Stephen Coles's talk on "What Can We Learn from Supercentenarians? The
Implications for Human Longevity" the first part of which was presented on October 31,
2004 at the 12th Congress of the Anti-Aging Medicine at the Hilton Hotel in Las Vegas (Revised
on November 24, 2004). There is also a 44-slide PowerPoint Presentation entitled "Nutritional Supplements: The Scientific Data" that was presented in San Francisco on September 29, 2002 (revised on September 17, 2004 and November 10, 2004). In particular, in Slide 18 regarding Vitamin E (Alpha Tocopherol), we have withdrawn our prior recommendation of [400 - 800] iu qd based on a report from Johns Hopkins of increased mortality of 5 percent at these higher doses. We now recommend only 150 iu qd.
Furthermore, on April 20, 2005, the US Department of Agriculture has issued a new Food Pyramid. If you click on the icon above, you can link to a much larger poster-quality version (in pdf format) that can then be printed out on a color printer for wall mounting.
The new pyramid is actually 12 different pyramids indexed by age, gender, and level of physical exercise on a typical day that needs to be customized for each subject at the USDA website.
The two presentations above taken together replace slides from four previous talks as follows:
(1) a Symposium on Anti-Aging Skin in May 2001 in San Diego;
(2) "Ten Unsolved Problems in Anti-Aging Medicine" presented on December 15, 2001 at the annual A4M Conference in Las Vegas;
(3) "Why Do Centenarians Live So Long?" presented at the Longevity Boot Camp on April 27, 2002 in Las Vegas, and
(4) a talk given at the Annual Plastic Surgery Conference on May 27, 2002 in Rancho Mirage.
(These presentations can at last be viewed in either Microsoft's Internet Explorer 6.0.2 or Netscape Navigator 7.2 or greater. It was not always the case that the Netscape browser could show PowerPoint slides in html format.)
Chapter 48
"Epidemiology of Antioxidants in Cancer and Cardiovascular Disease;" by Dr. L.
Stephen Coles in SECTION 7 EPIDEMIOLOGY AND INTERVENTION STUDIES of the
new textbook Oxidative Stress and Aging: Diagnostics, Intervention, and Longevity,
Edited by Richard G. Cutler and Henry Rodriguez, pp. 821-844 (World Scientific Publishing
Company, Ltd.; Singapore; 2002); Proc. of the Second International Conference on
Oxidative
Stress and Aging, Technologies for Assessment and Intervention Strategies (April 2-5, 2001;
Maui, Hawaii). Click the photo of the book cover to access this chapter. Click for the full version of the Bridge Plan GRG Recommendations. This 48-page document provides our life-style and supplement recommendations, first published in 1996 and revised continuously since then, as to what we should be doing while we're all waiting for the predicted breakthrough in Anti-Aging Medicine. This current version was revised on October 23, 2007.
Click for the Maximum Life Foundation's SALADS Document by David Kekich (61 pages).