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For a decade, the anti-aging bet was to lower NLRP3, a protein that switches on inflammation and helps drive age-related disease. A new paper says lowering it partway made mice age faster. The logic was sound. Chronic inflammation rises with age and contributes to heart disease, Alzheimer's, diabetes, and frailty, and NLRP3 is a major source. Removing it entirely in mice makes them age more slowly. That result, from 2013, kicked off a race to drug NLRP3. But a drug doesn't delete NLRP3. It only lowers it. So @CorderoMarioD's team made mice with one working copy instead of two, which is closer to what a drug does. Those mice aged faster: shorter lives, more frailty, worse metabolism, and, in females, earlier ovarian failure. The mice compensated. Lowering NLRP3 caused a second inflammasome, NLRP1, to rise and form a hybrid complex that produced more inflammation, not less. Cutting both restored them. Those blockers are already in clinical trials in people. Roche, NodThera, Ventyx, and Novartis all have NLRP3 inhibitors in human trials for conditions including Parkinson's, obesity, and heart disease, and each one lowers the protein rather than deleting it, the exact move that backfired in these mice. If that carries over, a partial blocker could worsen the inflammation it targets unless it also hits NLRP1. Still, it's mice, it's genetics not a drug, and human NLRP1 biology differs. A flag, not a verdict. Thursday, 16th July, @LauraMinquini and I will cover it with the author @CorderoMarioD on @athenabiorg's Menopause and Fertility show. The same inflammation that ages the body also ages the ovary.


Ro Khanna isn’t pro resistance enough for Drop Site News. Can’t make this up.






@AmYisraelChai_X He identifies Xtianity with the Romans? He is proud of murdering people and looting the Temple? "They hate to be reminded of that" We hate to be reminded that the entire false premise Catholic theology was built on (replacement theology) was disproven 2,000 years later? Lol ok


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Settler harassment of Palestinians in Taybeh, West Bank 🇵🇸




Alas, Mr. Congressman, I'm not lying. And I started this line of questioning assuming you were telling the truth. I've written long essays on extremist Israeli violence in the West Bank. I know it happens. I was ready, at first glance, to believe it happened here. But it didn't. This wasn't Israeli violence. This was agitprop for your American audiences. I said explicitly that I'm not familiar with the details of that area. It took a lot of effort for JPost to find out what it found out -- which was that it was a closed military zone only recently opened. But if you'd coordinated your visit with Israeli authorities, this would have been sorted out from the start. Those soldiers weren't angry or aggressive, they seemed mostly just confused about the status of the area and how to handle your visit. Because, you know, there was no coordination. JPost suggests all that in the article you yourself shared. And what of the violence? Your group had cameras -- a professional photographer and at least one bodycam -- yet you've produced no evidence that I've seen of the violence you claim to have experienced. Remember that you claimed the violence was sufficient to demand that Netanyahu order the prosecution of those soldiers. I've seen that sort of violence before; if you produce that footage, I'll join your demand for prosecution. That's not rhetoric. I really will, wholeheartedly. But if you don't, I think it's safe to assume you blew up a small inconvenience caused by your own refusal to talk to Israelis. In a similar vein, you used the word "detained" as if you were unlawfully held against your will -- and hide behind its second meaning, that you were a bit delayed in driving forward into the area. The first is on the spectrum of kidnapping crimes, the second is the sort of problem you'd encounter at the entrance to a federal building as you search your pockets for an ID. Which was it? Anyway, you were angling for some domestic political brownie points, and congratulations, you got 'em.


💢 Jeremy Scahill asks Rep. Ro Khanna: “Do Palestinians have a right to kill Israeli soldiers, Congressman?” “On October 7, did Palestinians have a right to attack Israeli military bases in the Gaza envelope? Yes or no?” 🎥 Watch Khanna’s response in the attached clip. Longer discussion in the post below ⬇️













