Transformer: The Deep Chemistry of Life and Death, book

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I’m reading this book, by a person named Nick Lane, a biochemist working in London.

The essence of it is that the mitochondria & the TCA (Krebs) cycle have a lot more effect on aging & cancer than one would imagine (or at least than people once thought).

It’s fairly dense biochemistry & I’m not going to try to summarize it. That would be like me trying to sculpt Michalango’s David from a stick of butter while sitting in a tent in the Sahara.

My point in bringing it up, besides that it’s interesting to me, is that it appears to me that close study of the mitochondria may be a fruitful direction for research into longevity, so others on this forum might be interested as well.

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Another new book out (or out soon, but announced this week) is Peter Attia’s book:

PeterAttiabook

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Thank for the lead, just purchased an audiobook version and ordered a hardcover.

Located the following, a Talk by the author Nick Lane

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Release date is March 23, 2023

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Looks like a really interesting book - and an interesting guy:

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Thanks for the links to the youtubes, I’ll watch them in my next youtube session (it’s something I do while exercising).

I found out about the book because it was an Audible deal of the day a little while ago. It seems pretty detailed for a deal of the day, but I’m glad I grabbed it.

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