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b'Phil and Stephen discuss medical breakthroughs that promise to help us all stay young, thin, and healthy.\\n\\nThe \'Big Bang\' of Alzheimer\'s: Scientists ID genesis of disease, focus efforts on shape-shifting tau\\n\\nScientists have discovered a "Big Bang" of Alzheimer\'s disease \\u2013 the precise point at which a healthy protein becomes toxic but has not yet formed deadly tangles in the brain.\\n\\nThe revelation offers a new strategy to detect the devastating disease before it takes hold and has spawned an effort to develop treatments that stabilize tau proteins before they shift shape.\\n\\nNew Pill Can Reverse Obesity And Type 2 Diabetes\\n\\nHow to Eliminate Cancer from Our Genome\\n\\nThese anti-aging pills seem to be actually working\\n\\nPills hailed as the first real \\u201canti-aging\\u201d drugs inched a little closer to the market after a study found they cut the number of respiratory infections in the elderly by half.\\n\\nThe drugs: The pills act on an aging-related pathway called TORC1. Inhibiting this pathway \\u201chas extended life span in every species studies to date,\\u201d according to Joan Mannick, who led the study for drug giant Novartis. Those species include mice and worms.\\n\\n\\n\\nWT 458-776\\n\\nEternity Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) | Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0\\n\\nVideos and Images from Pixabay.com and other sources.'