Daniel Tawfik
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Founder and developer https://t.co/Xh5vXA1042, https://t.co/G5rNcJ3A6t & fmr Obama '08 I write @ https://t.co/L0KR2J2AXm. Molecular biologist turned dev. product of big government @ucla
Los Angeles, CA
Joined August 2013
My wife @ElanaMD is an unstoppable force. A month in a small hospital room—chemo, radiation, and a bone marrow transplant— and she still manages to smile through it all.
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We sat down with Francisco Gonzalez-Lima to unpack mitochondria, brain energy metabolism, photobiomodulation, methylene blue, and why dysfunction appears before Alzheimer’s pathology. Watch. Share. Let serious neuroscience travel further. https://t.co/vUZdGg1ZsY
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What if cognitive aging isn’t primarily a problem of memory, neurotransmitters, or plaques—but a problem of energy? In this episode of Beyond Healthspan, we sit down with Dr. Francisco Gonzalez-Lima, Professor of Neuroscience, Pharmacology, and Toxicology at the University of
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🧬 2025 may be remembered as the year healthspan research quietly matured. Here’s a year-in-review of the most interesting healthspan research from 2025—organized around ten findings that reshaped how we think about aging biology. 👇
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🧬 Hair Loss as a Window into Aging: How Autophagy & Senescence Drive Follicle Decline Hair loss is often dismissed as a mere cosmetic issue—but mounting evidence suggests it’s a powerful biomarker of systemic aging. Recent research highlights two cellular processes at the
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Hair loss, beyond its aesthetic implications, serves as a visible indicator of the broader, systemic aging processes occurring within the body. This research review article examines the potential of...
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1. 🧬 A protein found in human milk is now showing up in adult nutrition research—for reasons that go well beyond muscle. Most people think “protein quality” = muscle protein synthesis. But a growing body of evidence suggests protein composition may influence sleep, circadian
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1. 🧬 A protein found in human milk is now showing up in adult nutrition research—for reasons that go well beyond muscle. Most people think “protein quality” = muscle protein synthesis. But a growing body of evidence suggests protein composition may influence sleep, circadian
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My guess is aging of women’s eggs will turn out to be largely epigenetic and reversible. We’ve already seen NMN reverse the infertility in old female mice
For decades, scientists have attributed the decline in fertility after age 35 mainly to chromosomal errors in aging eggs. Yet new evidence suggests the process begins earlier—and within the cellular machinery that maintains egg quality and longevity. A new study examined the use
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1/ 🧬 Can a longevity molecule improve fertility? A new study in Cell Reports Medicine explored the use of Rapamycin—a compound long studied in aging research—in women undergoing IVF. The result? A short course of Rapamycin doubled IVF success rates. Here’s what the science
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Zone 2 training has become one of the most talked-about ideas in fitness and longevity — often portrayed as the sweet spot for building mitochondrial health, improving fat metabolism, and extending endurance. But is the science really that simple? In our latest Beyond
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For decades, compounds like rapamycin, metformin, and acarbose have shown the ability to improve metabolic health and extend lifespan in animal models. Now, a new class of drugs is gaining attention for their healthspan-promoting benefits in human trials. Originally developed
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Speak to a doctor about longevity protocols and prescriptions.
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One of the most striking things about aging is how it quietly reshapes the heart. It doesn’t stop beating—it just becomes less flexible. The walls stiffen, the muscle can’t relax as easily, and what once was effortless rhythm starts to strain. For decades, rapamycin has been
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For decades, rapamycin has been recognized for its ability to extend lifespan in animals by targeting one of the central drivers of aging—the mTOR pathway. But what does that actually look like in humans? A new pilot study from the University of Texas Health Science Center
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For decades, women entering midlife have been told that fatigue, brain fog, weight changes, and mood shifts are “just part of aging.” At Healthspan, we hear the same story from countless patients — women who’ve spent years trying to understand what’s happening to their bodies,
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One of the most common stories we see at Healthspan starts the same way. A patient tells us they feel like their body isn’t responding the way it used to. Workouts that once felt effortless now drain them. Recovery takes longer. Energy fades faster. They’re eating “healthy.”
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🧠 What if Alzheimer’s isn’t caused by plaques at all—but by an energy crisis inside your brain cells? When you dig into the research of Dr. Francisco Gonzalez-Lima and Dr. Jack de la Torre on mitochondrial dysfunction in Alzheimer’s disease—and the potential of methylene blue
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Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is often associated with amyloid plaques and neurofibrillary tangles, yet growing evidence supports a vascular-hypometabolism hypothesis in which cerebral hypoperfusion and...
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Alzheimer’s Breakthrough? Methylene Blue, Ketones & Light Therapy Explained In this episode of Beyond Healthspan, Brandon and Dr. Richard LaFountain examine the work of neuroscientist Dr. Francisco Gonzalez-Lima, whose research proposes an alternative framework for understanding
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What Does It Really Mean to Be Metabolically Flexible? In this week's episode of Beyond Healthspan, we break down one of the most influential papers in exercise physiology: “Assessment of Metabolic Flexibility by Means of Measuring Blood Lactate, Fat, and Carbohydrate Oxidation
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How Endogenous Fructose Fuels Inflammation and Accelerates Aging—Watch Now Here’s what the Healthspan Research Review unpacks: - How internal fructose production may accelerate inflammation, fat accumulation in the liver, and insulin resistance, key drivers of biological aging
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Magnesium deficiency contributes to systemic low-grade inflammation, the common denominator of most diseases. In particular, neuroinflammation is the hallmark of neurodegenerative disorders. https://t.co/PRIzkGXh7Q
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Magnesium (Mg) is involved in the regulation of metabolism and in the maintenance of the homeostasis of all the tissues, including the brain, where it harmonizes nerve signal transmission and...
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A great discussion on our community forum about whether sustained adherence to a ketogenic diet is required to achieve the neuroprotective benefits of ketones. The thread explores emerging research on intermittent ketosis, exogenous ketones, and metabolic flexibility as
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Hello! This is Brandon from the Clinical Team, and I apologize for the delayed reply as I gathered my thoughts on this. Thank you for this thought-provoking question! I think it could probably be...
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