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[rombus]

mmm waffles.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/13119227/


(edited by Matthias: thread moved and name added to the title)

Edited by Matthias, 20 May 2008 - 01:14 PM.

[Live Forever]

Maybe he used resveratrol syrup on his waffles.

[forever freedom]

Probably just had the genes that neutralized the bad effects of such a diet diet.

[rombus]

Hmm, I thought this was a recent article, my mistake! I failed to notice the date of Oct. 10, 2006. Ah oh well.

[Ghostrider]

Hmm, I thought this was a recent article, my mistake! I failed to notice the date of Oct. 10, 2006. Ah oh well.

Wonder how he would have done on a healthy diet.

[forever freedom]

Hmm, I thought this was a recent article, my mistake! I failed to notice the date of Oct. 10, 2006. Ah oh well.

Wonder how he would have done on a healthy diet.

Yea me too. Probably not much better, since it's not that he had the potential to live much more, but just that junk food didn't harm him much.

[Matt]

“All of his organs were extremely youthful. They could have been the organs of someone who was 50 or 60, not 112. Clearly his genes had some secrets,” Coles said.

This is a common finding in CR'd rodents. I'm not sure the exact source now, but apparently 30-40% of the last surviving animals on CR have no real organ pathology at all, their organs look very young and they just seem to die of old age. People that reach this age despite their diet probably have similar mechanisms at play which protect them in the same way which protects CR animals. This is just my opinion of course.

Edited by Matt, 16 May 2008 - 08:24 PM.

[VictorBjoerk]

Hmm, I thought this was a recent article, my mistake! I failed to notice the date of Oct. 10, 2006. Ah oh well.

Wonder how he would have done on a healthy diet.

Yea me too. Probably not much better, since it's not that he had the potential to live much more, but just that junk food didn't harm him much.

Exactly,They apparently get all their benefit from genes

http://www.sfgate.co...mp;type=bondage

"This is a mysterious case that someone could be so healthy from a pathology point of view and that there is no obvious cause of death."

Why do some really old but healthy people just die?Is it some kind of a mystic grim reaper inbuilt in the body that kills you when you reach a certain age regardless of health status or could this also be some kind of amyloidosis or electrolyte imbalance?


The same with Joan Riudavets,shortly before his death he was able to walk with a cane,read the newspapers,perfectly lucid.And then suddenly dies of a mild cold.

[eternaltraveler]

He only lived to be 112 on the sausage and waffle diet?

Like magnet rings, sausage and waffles are one of the secrets of the immortals.

Edited by elrond, 16 May 2008 - 08:35 PM.

[Mind]

"This is a mysterious case that someone could be so healthy from a pathology point of view and that there is no obvious cause of death."

Why do some really old but healthy people just die?Is it some kind of a mystic grim reaper inbuilt in the body that kills you when you reach a certain age regardless of health status or could this also be some kind of amyloidosis or electrolyte imbalance?


The same with Joan Riudavets,shortly before his death he was able to walk with a cane,read the newspapers,perfectly lucid.And then suddenly dies of a mild cold.

Just speculation here, but there was probably some part of his body that was "going out of whack". Just because some organs looked quite good doesn't mean they were all in great shape.

[VictorBjoerk]

"This is a mysterious case that someone could be so healthy from a pathology point of view and that there is no obvious cause of death."

Why do some really old but healthy people just die?Is it some kind of a mystic grim reaper inbuilt in the body that kills you when you reach a certain age regardless of health status or could this also be some kind of amyloidosis or electrolyte imbalance?


The same with Joan Riudavets,shortly before his death he was able to walk with a cane,read the newspapers,perfectly lucid.And then suddenly dies of a mild cold.

Just speculation here, but there was probably some part of his body that was "going out of whack". Just because some organs looked quite good doesn't mean they were all in great shape.

It would be great if imminst could invite Stephen Coles or someone in a similar position to a chat where you could ask questions about cases like this as well as other things related to supercentenarians and aging in general.

[eternaltraveler]

There is no reason we can't ask Dr. Coles to one of our sunday chats. I met him at the last SENS conference.

[VictorBjoerk]

There is no reason we can't ask Dr. Coles to one of our sunday chats. I met him at the last SENS conference.

[VictorBjoerk]

In the Movie on the main page at http://www.grg.org/ posted on 30 october 2007 featruing Gertrud Baines he mentions the amyloidosis phenomenon and how it causes system collapse in the body...