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Antidepressant extends lifespan in worms

A team at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle blitzed the C. elegans roundworm with tens of thousands of chemicals and found 115 that prolonged their short lives. But one, the antidepressant mianserin, is now commanding all of their attention. The chemical inhibits two neurotransmitters and appears to offer the same kind of extended longevity that severely restricted food consumption can have--without the diet. In the worm, a regular in early-stage studies, the chemical induced a 30 percent increase in average life spans. That translates to about one extra week for the worm, potentially much more in humans.

- read the report from The New York Times

ALSO: Both humans and mice that manage to live to a ripe, old age show a clear change in their glucose metabolism, but it's unclear whether this change alone can increase lifespan. Release

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I have learned during working on my on constructs questioning the measurement of cognition during self awareness. I have found out that the mind can be stimulized and a vision of a pleasant or not pleasant time is a available for people with the potential of having alzhiemers disease, of course in a stable environment, the consistent timing for storytelling, saftey, and familiar faces.

secondly, cancer patients whom were terminally ill. I have worked with the terminally ill cancer patients in the nights. I have learned even duringthe most demented stages, while the brain is erroding, there is still enough secretions from neurotransmitters which offer empathy, to a caregiver.
I started out by washing the patient with janet sartin products. The rasberry and lotioning with another scent. While the patient was unable. The patient asked, once he got stronger, "why did you treat me this way, he paused... while I looked puzzled he then went on to say you washed me and made me feel better."
I responded "because you always took very good care of yourself, therefore I should keep you looking this way." The other care givers were laughing and making sure he heard, that I was in love with him, I was not aware, he was HIV positive.

Even with all of the tyranny this client had to go through and as his health, erroded as well and his brain, he never tried to hurt me, he never tried to spit on me, or the other types of things, patients act out during the end stages of cancer and HIV.

Lastly an English as a second language cancer patient. She complained of being abused, by her husband, whom was a chronic alcoholic. She had to hide her daughters under the bed, for protection.
Because his behavior was too risky.
She began too cry, and wished there would be a way, she could tell him, she had cancer and the cancer was terminal.
Her urine was a murky color. She would urinate on the floor, because she began to believe, all of the malicious myths her husband rang out with.
Her wish was to see her husband once again, before she died. I wrote a paper on prohibition of alcohol in regards to the christian womens society, this exercise put her into a new stream of thought.
Each night I would come in to check her vitals, she would be awake, but she slept in the nights.
I never responded to her, I listened. one night I realized a new patient was occuppying her room.

If you are wondering what my position was. I am a certified nurse technician and I was a ultrasoundsonograpy student at New York University.
I specialized in echocardiology. Dallas Texas, I was a student of Radiology-- specialized in special procedures. I was injured on the job, and now am recovering to enter the field of health policy, once I obtain my masters degree from columbia University. I now have my bachelor's degree in professional studies for human services and education. This degree allows me to continue to utilize my past lifestyle while adding on to it. I can counsel on a myraid of life issues and be of help to the community of healthcare, law, and housing.

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