Q&A 445: The Best New Anti-Aging Compounds, Gut Healing Supplements, What Ben Would Do If He Got Cancer, The Worst Things For Fertility & Much More!

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• Ginger may not be as sexy and expensive as the trendy anti-aging drugs out there, but it has fabulous evidence for longevity enhancement: Ginger for Healthy Ageing: A Systematic Review on Current Evidence of Its Antioxidant, Anti-Inflammatory, and Anticancer Properties...05:00

• Fantastic paper on the latest anti-aging drugs and compounds, and how they work: Antiaging agents: safe interventions to slow aging and healthy life span extension...09:40

• Here's all the stuff that is bad news bears for fertility: Addiction and human male fertility: A systematic review and a critical appraisal...21:01

• Hey fellas, maybe you should focus on *this* more than, say, bench pressing: Handgrip Strength as a Darwinian Fitness Indicator in Men...28:17

• A plant-based diet doesn’t necessarily mean a healthy or high-quality diet - this study found that biomarkers of cardiometabolic health are associated with diet quality, not “plant-based” classification (or vegetarian vs. omnivore): Health Biomarkers in Adults Are More Closely Linked to Diet Quality Attributes Than to Plant-Based Diet Categorization...37:01

• This systematic review found some evidence that supplements such as bovine colostrum, glutamine, single-strain probiotics, nitric oxide precursors, and antioxidants may reduce exercise-associated gut damage and therefore limit gastrointestinal symptoms during exercise: A systematic review: Role of dietary supplements on markers of exercise-associated gut damage and permeability...46:52

• Baby food pouches more sugary than Coca-Cola, dentists warn amid "epidemic'"of tooth decay: Baby food pouches 'more sugary than Coca-Cola', dentists warn amid 'epidemic' of tooth decay (FYI, I would not say this about the baby food pouches from Serenity Kids (use code BEN to save 15%) I have for lunch each day - not kidding!)...50:27

• Mushrooms communicate with each other using up to 50 "words," scientist claims: Mushrooms communicate with each other using up to 50 ‘words,’ scientist claims...54:15

• Good calculator for balancing your food and activity levels (especially the expert mode): Body Weight Planner...56:54

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