GlycanAge Blog: Health · Page 7
Discover health insights with GlycanAge. Explore biological age, inflammation, glycans, and expert tips for improving longevity and overall well-being.
Sweet Beginnings: How Sugars Help to Build Your Brain
The creation of a complete human being from a single cell is one of the most mind-boggling transformations in nature. An almost immeasurable number of molecular events must be precisely coordinated and each of the steps has to occur in the right sequence and at exactly the right time to go from a single, microscopic c…
Published:April 12, 2020
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Sweet Brain O'Mine: How Sugars Help You Think!
Synaptic transmission, synaptic excitability, neuronal action potentials, neuronal firing, are just a bunch of fancy terms to describe the amazing phenomenon of chemical information streaming and flowing within your brain cells. You might have been told not to skip breakfast, since glucose fuels your mind and, along w…
Published:April 7, 2020
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Mucin 4 Glycoprotein Appears to Play an Important Role in Coronavirus Disease
Many surfaces of our body, including the surface of the respiratory system (from the nose to the lung), eyes, ears, intestine and others, are covered by a layer called mucus. This mucus layer serves as the body's very first line of defence against pathogens (e.g. bacteria, viruses). The main components of mucus beside…
Published:April 2, 2020
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Glycans as Biomarkers for Liver and Pancreatic Cancer
Cancer is responsible for an estimate of 9.6 million deaths in 2018, making it leading cause of death in the world (about 1 in 6 deaths is due to cancer). Lung, stomach, liver, colon and breast cancers have the highest mortality rates among the patients. Due to that, the need for biomarkers that can determine the risk…
Published:April 2, 2020
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COVID19 Severity – Are Smokers at Risk?
Beginning of 2020 will be known for the pandemic of COVID-19, the disease caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV 2). Symptoms can be mild to severe, and all of us are aware of guidelines that should be followed to prevent spreading the virus and getting sick.
Published:April 2, 2020
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Biomarkers of Biological Age as Predictors of COVID-19 Disease Severity
Early epidemiological studies suggest the most important predictor of severity of COVID-19 disease course is age. Pre-existing conditions, including diabetes, CVD, hypertension, obesity and other consequences of an unhealthy lifestyle are also associated with increased mortality, indicating that the biological age is …
Published:March 28, 2020
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Glycosylation in Neurodegeneration
Since our world is rapidly ageing, neurodegenerative diseases, affecting mostly the elderly population, represent one of the most common causes of death. They are associated with a wide range of rather unpleasant symptoms, such as memory loss, mood changes, tremors, hallucinations, psychosis, depression and many more.…
Published:March 25, 2020
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Fighting Viruses With Glycans
COVID-19 has developed into global pandemics, which we probably cannot stop any more. The virus is not very deadly but is spreading rapidly and can cause collapse of the healthcare system, even in developed countries like Italy. Therefore, we have to do our best to slow the spread of the virus, so that people that req…
Published:March 9, 2020
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IgG Glycans & High Blood Pressure
Recent scientific publication in the leading cardiological journal “Circulation” discovered a molecular link between GlycanAge and high blood pressure.
Published:February 13, 2020
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What Are Glycans?
Glycans are complex carbohydrate molecules and one of the four primary components of the cell (alongside DNA, proteins and lipids). Our cells are coated with a thick layer of glycans.
Published:February 12, 2020
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The GlycanAge Method
Welcome to Glycanage, the revolutionary, science-based test offers an accurate and insightful view into the true condition of an individual’s health by defining the difference between their chronological and biological age. To calculate biological age, cutting edge technology analyses an individual’s IgG glycans, prov…
Published:February 12, 2020
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