Blood platelets activated during exercise increase neurogensis: mouse study

Also a nice source: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3902221/

There's still the concern of ethics with individual organs, though. How much of a person can you get without it becoming one? Is the idea of a "soul" reality? Tough questions.

For now, mouse studies are imperfect but necessary. Like it or not, they may allow research that is not feasible on humans in terms of safety or cost. We probably need to continue them, albeit taking them with a grain of salt. In mice is worth something, mostly getting the next set of research funded.

Instead of thinking of the problem, let's start thinking of solutions. For example, can we genetically humanize mice or other mammalian models to more closely resemble human?

Presumably you are not suggesting experimenting on humans to answer basic science questions?

All things in moderation—including moderation.

My takeaway from many mental health discussions has been to:

* Look after your body/love yourself by being good to your body (this includes your takeaways)

* Try to see things from others' perspectives

* Relax and just have a damned beer if you want a damned beer. It's not all that heavy—it's life and life only.

(just an aside/tangent: I'm not for fasting in the way you've prescribed. From what I understand about it is that it won't hurt you, but it doesn't gain you anything either unless you're having difficulty managing your caloric budget)

If you think about it, you can go without food and water for long-ish periods of time, but you can't go without sleep longer than a week or maybe two before you have irreparable damage. From an evolutionary perspective, this seems crazy since you're in your most vulnerable state and you're missing out on 8 hours of food foraging, or procreation. Obviously evolution has found that sleep is absolutely necessary for all living organisms. It's by far the most important aspect of living healthy lives, but it's the least appreciated in Western society.

One thing I'd add is: avoid stress whenever possible. Learn perspective and don't sweat the small stuff.

In 2003, the organization was made public as the Methuselah Foundation at the 32nd Annual Meeting of the American Aging Association,[7] where they awarded the first Methuselah Mouse Prize to Andrej Bartke for his work on mice that lived the equivalent of 180 human years.