10 October 2017 3 10K Report

Can caffeine slow the aging process by impacting genetic pathways in the human?

In developing their scientific hypothesis,

Furman et al

(Nat Med. 2017 Feb; 23(2): 174–184.

Published online 2017 Jan 16. doi:  10.1038/nm.4267 )

argued that "Since caffeine antagonizes adenosine due to their structural similarity, we [next] asked whether caffeine levels were associated with inflammasome-module gene expression" and found that "caffeine negatively regulates the NLRC4 inflammasome" 

What do you think about the study design?

What should the next study be?

Dennis

Dennis Mazur

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5320935/

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