Epithalon is the flagship product of a four-decade Soviet and Russian research program into short tissue-specific peptides claimed to reset aging biology, including telomerase activation and measurable mortality reduction in a 266-patient cohort. The mechanism is genuinely interesting. The evidence supporting it has a single-institution problem Western science hasn't been able to get past for over twenty years.
Longevity
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Diet and Cognition: What the Evidence Actually Supports, and What the Marketing Sells Most diet-and-cognition claims rest on observational studies that systematically over-promise, and the few large randomized trials that tested the headline diets came back muted. A skeptical-engineer walk through the Mediterranean and MIND data, omega-3s honestly, the supplement graveyard, and the one mechanism that actually holds up.