After spending the last years of my life pondering on aging and working with people at the end of their lives, I welcomed the challenge of turning one fertilized egg into an adult. This marathon is not over yet. For reasons unknown to me, it is unusual to be interested in longevity while being female.…… Continue reading What pregnancy taught me about aging
Tag: Pregnancy
Immunotherapy for senescent cell removal – lessons from human embryo development and other species
For a long time I had this simplistic view that senescent cells accumulate with age, contributing to many age-related degenerative diseases through the sterile inflammation and regeneration impairment they cause. I also thought their removal with the help of drugs is the only possible solution to get rid of them. Destroying senescent cells shouldn’t be…… Continue reading Immunotherapy for senescent cell removal – lessons from human embryo development and other species
Promises I Can Keep
Middle- and upper-class women have a set list of priorities in life – first career, then a house, then some more career and in the end, the easy part – having children (after getting married, of course). Poor women don’t do it that way – why? This is what this book is trying to answer…… Continue reading Promises I Can Keep
Book Review: Natural Pregnancy and Parenting
During my last two posts, I placed some subtle hints that I’ve been through a very stressful period of my life because of an exam – now that it passed, I feel somehow lost, without an immediate goal in sight 🙂 Although I had to force myself to stop reading anything else than the…… Continue reading Book Review: Natural Pregnancy and Parenting