Do Statins Speed up Aging… Or Slow It?
"What the researchers showed was that statin drugs make stem cells – that rejuvenate the body – divide more slowly in a test tube. This could be expected, as statins slow access to the cholesterol building blocks needed for cell division.
However, slowing the division of stem cells is not necessarily speeding up the aging process (even if it might feel that way). As stem cells have a limited number of divisions it could actually preserve stem cells. It could be argued to likely slow the aging process."
Read the complete article here.
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Monday, September 28, 2015
Sunday, September 27, 2015
Statins: Their Pleotropic Beneficial and Adverse Clinical Effects
The Impact of Statins on Biological Characteristics of Stem Cells Provides a Novel Explanation for Their Pleotropic Beneficial and Adverse Clinical Effects.
A highly interesting paper on the effects of statins on mesenchymal stem cells
Axel F Sigurdsson MD
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