[neverdem]

Growth Hormone Receptor Deficiency Is Associated with a Major Reduction in Pro-Aging Signaling, Cancer, and Diabetes in Humans

[Walkingfeather]

ping

[Alter Kaker]

These folks would live forever except, according to the article, they’re all accident-prone alcoholics. So maybe the gene that keeps them cancer free also makes them accident-prone alcoholics instead?

[neverdem]

This discovery could lead to a drug that inhibits a part of this cell signaling pathway, thus restoring the insulin sensitivity in many, if not most, type II diabetics. I wouldn't hold my breath. If it pans out, it could take a number or years.

FReepmail me if you want on or off the diabetes ping list.

[Charles Henrickson]

A 67-year-old man who has Laron-type dwarfism with his daughter, 5, and sons, 7 and 10.

[bunkerhill7]

Little things mean a lot.

[gleeaikin]

My grandfather was a smallish man of Welsh, Scots, English ancestry who lived to be 98. All his siblings except the youngest lived into their 90’s, and one lived to 103 or 104. I have heard that large men tend to die sooner.

[Secret Agent Man]

Also probably were never vacinnated with tainted vaccines that had SV-40 and other cancer causing agents in them.

[max americana]

So? Helen Thomas was there at the signing of the Declaration of Independence and this deficiency explains her longevity...aside from sucking the blood of virgins every full moon.

[Tainan]

may be of interest

[Defiant]

Bilbo Baggins lived a long life, too.

[mrreaganaut]

Oompa loompa, doo-pah-dee-doo! I've got another riddle for you!

Yes, but can they mix chocolate?

[dixiechick2000]

I’m sure you have some kind of comment...like “ewoks”, or something.

[DaxtonBrown]

Very interesting. My brother was diagnosed with deadly melanoma just two weeks ago and he has diabetes. The PET scan just came back this morning negative for metastases, making him maybe the luckiest guy on the planet. I just about wrote a whole book on melanoma in the last two eeks and te link to diabetes came up.

[bert]

-——Sephardic Jews from Spain and Portugal who were forced to convert to Christianity in the 1490s but were nonetheless persecuted in the Inquisition-———

Hmmm...... the inquisition of peace

[StraightDave]

My grandmother lived to 106. Of normal stature, her longevity was attributed to the bowl of oatmeal she had for breakfast every morning. BTW, in her late 90s she flipped her walker at a home intruder and scared him off :) Oatmeal power!

[martin_fierro]

The villagers are very small, generally less than three and a half feet tall, and have a rare condition known as Laron syndrome or Laron-type dwarfism. They are probably the descendants of conversos, Sephardic Jews from Spain and Portugal who were forced to convert to Christianity in the 1490s but were nonetheless persecuted in the Inquisition. They are also almost completely free of two age-related diseases, cancer and diabetes.

[Citizen X_Area 51]

Simple explanation: Not tainted by liberalism!