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10th July 2008

Afraid of Infection?

Although I don’t like to write articles that may have an element of making you fear something, I sort of got caught up in a documentary I saw on Public Television last night about super bugs and how they are becoming resistant to antibiotics.

Today’s article isn’t really about super-bugs, but it is about the fact that germs have become public enemy number one. It’s getting so that the risk of infection seems to be everywhere — airplanes with their stale air — buses and subways where people are coughing and sneezing, flu outbreaks, and how about all those crazy infections people are picking up in hospitals? Now we’re even getting warnings just about every week about sicknesses people are getting from eating food — e-coli — salmonella, etc. Just this morning the news warned people like me to stay indoors because of the pollution expected outside this afternoon.

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Yikes!! That’s getting discouraging!

If you go over to my other blog, http://www.theleaderinside.com, you’ll see that I’m also writing there about what we’re doing to our planet and to ourselves in the process. Stop by — it’s a message that needs to get out there.

I read another article a few days ago that talked about all the new products that are coming out to protect us. Some subway trains are adding anti-microbial covers on their subway poles in their new trains coming out next year. There’s another company called CityMitts in New York that’s producing anti-microbial gloves using microfiber laced with silver ions — the same stuff they put in anti-microbial soaps and lotions.

Here’s some more stuff that was in the New York Times, recently:

• A new product called HYSO, an acronym for Cantonese words meaning “happy hands,” disinfects public restroom door handles. The $60 US device sprays a hospital-grade disinfectant on doorknobs every 15 minutes.

• An around-the-neck air purifier by Air Supply Ionic Personal Air Purifier, which the company promises will repel allergens and viruses. The device is becoming increasingly popular, especially among air travelers.

• Are you one of those cautious types who remove the bed cover as soon as you enter a hotel room, whisking it, bottom side up, into a corner? For hotel guests concerned that bedspreads are not washed as frequently as sheets, Marriott hotels now offers Revive comforters which are encased in white cotton covers. The covers are removed and washed with the bed sheets.

• SteriPEN, a portable, ultraviolet device used to disinfect drinking water for adventure travelers is increasingly being used by urbanites wanting to take extra precautions.

• Other gadgets including a portable subway strap that latches onto the overhead bar and a protective vinyl strip that adheres to shopping cart handles.

Whether you think the hygiene-brigade is born of necessary caution or the “ick factor” gone out of control, no doubt the anti-germ marketplace will continue to flood the market with an ever increasing arsenal of microbe-fighting products.

Just passing it along.

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3rd July 2008

Drink Up and Live Longer?

There has been more and more written about how red wine can help to reduce the risk of heart attack, stroke, cancer and even obesity. Now some scientists are saying the wine extract known as resveratrol just might turn out to be the Holy Grail of anti-aging.

Interest in resveratrol began several years ago when a group at Harvard reported that it boosted the life of yeast cells by 70 per cent. Other studies over the past few years have found that resveratrol can extend lifespan in worms, flies and fish. And according to preliminary tests, resveratrol has the same effect as reducing calorie intake by a third which scientists say boosts the life spans in animals by as much as 40 per cent.

“In mice, calorie restriction doesn’t just extend life span,” said LeonardP. Guarente, professor of biology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. “It mitigates many diseases of aging: cancer, cardiovascular disease, neurodegenerative disease. The gain is just enormous.”

For years, the U.S. National Institute on Aging has financed studies of rhesus monkeys on restricted and normal-calorie diets. Calorie restriction involves eating about 30 percent fewer calories than normal while still getting adequate amounts of vitamins, minerals and other nutrients. Aside from direct genetic manipulation, calorie restriction is the only approach known to extend life consistently in a number of animal species.

Okay, I hear you saying, “Yeah! But I’m not a bunch of yeast, nor am I a worm, fly, fish, mouse or monkey. Do people even stand a chance?”

How this drastic diet affects the body has been the subject of much research. Some scientists theorize that the low-calorie-provoked increase is linked to an ancient survival strategy. Put simply: when food is plentiful, live fast and breed prolifically. But when famine strikes, focus resources instead on body maintenance to live longer and ride out the famine.

So could scientists actually be close to developing life-extending drugs for humans?

“It is difficult to predict whether resveratrol will be effective in humans,” Matt Kaeberlein of the Department of Pathology, University of Washington told The New York Times. “But if Resveratrol doesn’t make the grade, it is not the last hope of gerontologists, or necessarily even the best. Studies of other, potent antioxidants are under way at the National Institute of Ageing.”

Using data from recent animal findings, Dr. Richard A. Miller, a pathologist at the University of Michigan, estimated that a pill mimicking the effects of calorie restriction might increase human life span to about 112 healthy years, with the occasional senior living until 140, though some experts view that projection as overly optimistic.

Hmmm, I’m not so sure that would be the best thing for the planet. What do you think? Let me hear from you.

There is this caveat: While Resveratrol is available to buy as a nutritional supplement on the internet, health experts advise caution because the safety of taking it at high-dose levels, comparable to those given to the mice, is yet to be established.

I wouldn’t try it myself, but it was interesting to research it.