We at Ballon Juice HQ understand the importance of drinking safely. If, for example, you’re reading this blog while drinking and driving we recommend that you should stop at least one of those things and probably two. But let’s think about the word ‘safety’ for a minute. If you define safety as reducing your risk …
Friday Beer Blogging – Beer Is A Sign That God Loves Me And Wants Me To
Friday Wine Blogging
This is getting ridiculous: A drug already shown to reverse the effects of obesity in mice and make them live longer has now been shown to increase their endurance as well. […] An ordinary laboratory mouse will run one kilometer on a treadmill before collapsing from exhaustion. But mice given resveratrol, a minor component of …
Saturday Red Wine Blogging
More progress on that absurdly positive red wine compound, resveratrol. From the Washington Post: A key compound in red wine known as resveratrol appears to protect against many of the health ravages associated with growing old, new animal research reveals. […] Daily consumption of the compound — also found in the skin of grapes and …
Wednesday Night Wine Blogging
It’s late and for some inexplicable reason I feel uninspired to write about politics. Not that there is anything going on at the moment, eh. Go figure. Inexplicable ennui notwithstanding the Washington Post just ran with a piece that will likely get lost in the melee if some enterprising blogger (me) doesn’t catch it first. …
…And It Can Hit The High E In The Star-Spangled Banner
Even crappy science fiction usually shies away from contrived plot devices like the cheap miracle pill that extends your life, prevents disease, makes you smarter, boosts strength and lets you live on glazed donuts, red meat and beer. It’s hard to create a believable future where the world is that nice to us. So don’t …
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Hope For Alzheimer’s
Before going too far into this new study, non-scientist readers should remember that every year basic research produces hundreds of promising leads that for whatever reason don’t pan out. Either the proposed treatment has too many side effects, it doesn’t work as well as something already on the market, follow-up work discredits the original report …
Good Mojo
B-J favorite drug resveratrol (RV) keeps cranking out the hits: We report here that chronic treatment with RV in a subapoptotic concentration induces senescence-like growth arrest in tumor cells. In contrast to the widely accepted antioxidant property of RV, we demonstrate that one causative stimulus for senescence induction by chronic RV is an increased level …