Wellness Business News
Fall Is the New Summer for Vacations | With Promise of Legalization, Psychedelic Companies Joust Over Future Profits | Want To Live Longer? How Life Extension Industry Will Reboot Health, Wellness and The Economy | Pig’s Heart Took Longer to Generate a Beat in Transplant Patient
Fall Is the New Summer for Vacations
Pent-up vacation demand since the pandemic and the flexibility of hybrid work are extending the travel season
With Promise of Legalization, Psychedelic Companies Joust Over Future Profits
Cash rich start-ups are filing scores of patent claims on hallucinogens like magic mushrooms. Researchers and patient advocates worry high prices will make the therapies unaffordable.
Want To Live Longer? How Life Extension Industry Will Reboot Health, Wellness and The Economy
Do you want to live a better, healthier and longer life? Me too.
Lets go back to 1937, when Albert Szent-Györgyi won a Nobel Prize for his discovery of ascorbic acid—vitamin C—that enables the body to efficiently use carbohydrates, fats, and protein (I use it a lot during cold and flu season, you?). It was a massively consequential discovery, as it not only saved and extended countless lives, but it also contributed to the foundations of modern nutrition. Szent-Györgyi, himself, was blessed with a long life; he died in 1986 at the age of 93. But he might just as well be known for what he said on his 90th birthday: “I wish I could be 75 again!”
Pig’s Heart Took Longer to Generate a Beat in Transplant Patient
Genetically modified pig’s heart transplanted into man who later died took longer to generate heartbeat than typical pig and human hearts
