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Plants vs. pills

Headline on the CNN website Monday: "Dr. Sanjay Gupta: Cannabis is having a senior moment."

Beneath it, celebrity sawbones Gupta reports that more and more of us old people are discovering pot's medicinal versatility.

In December 2018, when Michigan legalized the use of recreational marijuana for adults, I acquired a new hobby.

As somebody in an on-again, off-again relationship with sleep, I had, while investigating my options, read about cannabis as an alternative to sleeping pills, which I've always avoided.

A neighbor of mine, who was ahead of the curve on this, offered me some seeds. Hmmmm ... an opportunity to experiment ... and I always have enjoyed watching things grow.

I did some research, bought some equipment, started a dozen plants under a grow-light in my basement, then transferred them to a sunny patch of ground once the threat of frost had passed.

To my surprise, my crop flourished, but that was only the beginning of my education in cannabis husbandry. I still had a lot to learn - about which plants to nurture and which ones to execute; about THC and trichomes and pollination; about harvesting, drying, trimming, decarboxylation; about making cannabis-infused butter for the cookies that do, indeed, help me sleep.

Gupta, who was originally skeptical about the use of marijuana as medicine, wrote: "I would’ve never imagined a time when I would openly recommend cannabis to my own parents – or a time they would openly consider taking it."

That time has come. But don't expect an endorsement from Big Pharma; according to one estimate I read on the Internet, drug-makers lose about $10 billion every time a state legalizes pot.

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Naidu interacts with YouTube, Google honchos on tech support

Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu has been making efforts to attract global investors to AP and as part of it, he interacted with YouTube CEO Neel Mohan and Google APAC head Sanjay Gupta virtually on Tuesday.

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Railway Demolishes Encroachments Near Jugsalai Crossing

Railway authorities conduct anti-encroachment drive near Jugsalai crossing; demolish 25 illegal structures. The Railway’s land department seeks to clear encroachments near Jugsalai crossing to ensure safety and order. JAMSHEDPUR – The Railway’s land department conducts an anti-encroachment drive near Jugsalai crossing, demolishing illegal structures. The Railway’s land department carried out an…

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CNN's Dr. Sanjay Gupta explores his own dementia risk

CNN’s Dr. Sanjay Gupta has reported on Alzheimer’s and other dementias over the years, but recently he became the subject as he explored his own dementia risk, knowing his family history with the disease. The takeaways were enlightening, though it may be some time before such tests are widely available to the general public and covered by insurance. Gupta is not an ordinary patient; he is a…

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TWO (1964)

Director - Satyajit Ray, Cinematography - Soumendu Roy

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Sanjay and Craig meet Sammy and Raj, but little do they know is that Sammy and Raj has something that can alter time — and also make Sanjay and Craig freeze!

Made this for S&C’s 11th anniversary, as well as Asian-American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month!

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kinky and an intimidating figure is found in @chrism02’s Snake zodiac, Dr. Harding Hooten 😍🔥which will be the spicy date for the 12th chapter of their multi-molina character fic.

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Main Hi Hoon Bhedia: A New Bhediya Series Begins - Raj Comics by Sanjay Gupta

मैं ही हूँ भेड़िया: शुद्धिकरण श्रृंखला के बाद नई भेड़िया सीरीज का आगाज़ - राज कॉमिक्स बाय संजय गुप्ता (Main Hi Hoon Bhedia: A New Bhediya Series Begins - Raj Comics by Sanjay Gupta)

Raj Comics-By Sanjay Gupta

#ComicsByte #RajComics #bhediya #newseries #comicbooks

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Sanjay Mishra, Vivaan Shah, Amir Ali Shaik, Sonal Jha, Pooja Pandey, Akansha Shrivastava, Badal Rajpoot, Navin Prakash, Afsar Khan, Gagan Gupta, Ritesh Rajput, Gagan Gupta, Sidharth Singh, Ajit Kumar Srivastava,

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CNN 5/28/2025

Want to live to a healthy old age? Here’s what a top doctor does based on hard science

By Andrea Kane, CNN

Updated: 9:01 AM EDT, Wed May 28, 2025

Editor’s note: The podcast Chasing Life With Dr. Sanjay Gupta explores the medical science behind some of life’s mysteries big and small. You can listen to episodes here.

Who among us wouldn’t want to live a good life well into our 90s, especially if we could do it disease-free while still being as witty and spry as Betty White, as eloquent as Toni Morrison or as civically engaged as Jimmy Carter?

But you’d need good genes to live that long, right?

Not necessarily, according to Dr. Eric Topol, founding director of the Scripps Research Translational Institute in La Jolla, California, and former chairman of cardiovascular medicine at the Cleveland Clinic.

For almost 20 years, Topol has been studying a group of 1,400 Super Agers, or people who reached the age of 80 and beyond without developing one of three common, chronic, age-related conditions (cancer, heart disease and neurodegenerative disease), as part of the Wellderly study.

To his surprise, when his team conducted whole-genome sequencing on all the Wellderly study participants, the researchers found nothing genetic, across the board, that conferred an age and health advantage.

Topol’s new book, “Super Agers: An Evidence-Based Approach to Longevity,” explores the other factors at play and the science that backs them up. He examines lifestyle factors such as diet, exercise and sleep. He also looks at new technologies including the following :

All these technologies show promise in helping more people, if not reach Super Ager status, then achieve a longer health span by either delaying the onset of disease or aggressively treating conditions to prevent progression and complications.

Topol, who will soon turn 71, practices what he preaches.

“I hope to be (a Super Ager),” he told CNN Chief Medical Correspondent Dr. Sanjay Gupta, recently, on his podcast Chasing Life. “If I can get another 10 or 15 years without an age-related disease, that’d be great. And I’ve really doubled down on the things that I can do to help get there.”

Exactly which steps has the doctor-scientist who studies Super Agers taken to increase his odds of reaching their ranks?

You can listen to the full episode here.

“I made extensive changes from the research, once we learned that it isn’t in your genes … to achieve healthy aging, free of cancer, free of cardiovascular disease and free of neurodegenerative disease,” Topol said.

Lessons taken to heart: exercise, sleep and diet

One of the biggest changes Topol said he made was to his exercise routine. “I used to only do aerobic exercise, and as a cardiologist, that was my thing,” he said. “Now I do balance training and strength training (as well). It’s an extensive difference. … And so, I’m more strong and fit than I’ve ever been.”

In fact, exercise is so important that Topol ranks it as No. 1 on the list for anyone who wants to get started on the path of a longer life.

“It’s free. And if you’re not doing anything, if you’re a sedentary, then start with walks, brisk walks if you can, and keep increasing it,” he said. “Challenge yourself (with) hills and pace … if you are working up a sweat, that’s a really good sign.” (Check with your doctor before starting any new exercise routine.)

To get your upper body in shape, he recommends resistance bands, and to improve balance, he said to practice standing on one foot, then the other. “These are all free or cost minimum,” he said, noting that with a few inexpensive items you can do this at home, no gym membership required. “So work on that and then other things will start to fall in place. … If you exercise more, you’ll sleep better, too.”

Which brings us to the next major change Topol made.

“I realized how important (sleep) is because of ‘glymphatics.’ That was a new insight in the book: about deep sleep and getting these waste products out of your brain,” he said, referring to the recently discovered glymphatic system, which helps flush out waste products in the brain and central nervous system, much like the lymphatic system does for the rest of the body.

“I was a poor sleeper,” he confessed, so he worked “extensively” on improving the different factors that could impact it. “Things like … what do I eat? And when do I eat? Also hydrating, mostly early in the day … to have less interrupted sleep.” He added that for him fasting is “detrimental” to his sleep, as are both exercising or eating a big meal too late in the evening.

And, do not give short shrift to sleep regularity, Topol advised. “I used to go to sleep all over the place (in terms of time), and now I’m very regimented, except for maybe one night a week,” he said, noting that this tweak was “phenomenally effective” in levelling up his sleep game.

As for diet, Topol (who hasn’t touched red meat in 40 years but does eat fish) said he wasn’t surprised the evidence showed that a plant-based diet with enough lean protein “prevailed as the best.”

“What was interesting, though, is how toxic (and) pro inflammatory ultraprocessed foods were,” he said, adding that he does everything he can to minimize UPF — which he jokingly calls UFOs, or alien food . “It’s hard to get it to zero, but I’ve (made a) conscious effort.”

Topol said he also increased his protein intake “some,” due to his age and because he started strength training, “but I don’t go to toxic levels that are advocated by others, that have no evidence (and) that are pro-inflammatory.”

He said he keeps protein to about 90 grams a day for his 180-pound (82-kilogram) frame, by adding nuts, legumes (including beans) and more fish, even canned tuna in water, to his diet.

“I generally eat a salad every night,” he said. “Now I’m a little more conscious about having something with it. … But (it’s) not the protein craze that’s being advocated by some of the extremists.”

Supplements, alcohol and stress

What about supplements and vitamins? “I don’t rule out that they could help (if) you have a specific deficiency — if for some reason your vitamin D is very low, or your vitamin B12,” Topol said.

But “for healthy people who are not symptomatic (and) who take good care of themselves,” he said, “there’s no data to show that these provide any benefit” much less an antiaging one.

“I think they’re a waste of money, and some of these supplements have potentially adverse effects,” he said. “It’s just infuriating because they’re not regulated, so (marketers) can say anything, and people believe it and buy it.”

When it comes to consuming alcohol, Topol said he keeps his drinking “light,” to fewer than seven drinks per week, after which the risks start adding up quickly. He said it doesn’t seem to affect his own sleep, but it might impact that of others, so he recommends watching out for that.

Another top-of-the-list item: mental health and stress management. Topol mainly turns to exercise to help navigate both of these elements, but he said being out in nature is another often-overlooked route.

“The nature prescription is part of the book. There really is something to this,” he noted, adding that he takes advantage of San Diego’s climate and location to do plenty of hiking and walking. “It’s good for mental health, it’s good for stress and anxiety, just to be out in our environment.”

It’s never too late to start any or all of these lifestyle adjustments, Topol said.

“These diseases take 20 years at least (to develop). So, you get even more (bang) if you start in your 40s and 50s or 60s … but if you start when you’re 70 (or) 80, you’re still going to derive years of healthy aging, maybe not quite as many, but still,” he said.

And because these common, chronic, age-related conditions — cancer, heart disease and neurodegenerative diseases — do take so long to fully manifest, Topol said we have time to intervene to change their trajectory.

Medical technologies gaining traction

But to fully leverage that latency period before the symptoms of a disease appear, it’s important to be aware of personal risk, so people and their doctors (and society more broadly) can focus prevention and early detection efforts on the right people at the right time.

“Knowing one’s risk — that’s the next part, which is: we’re going to prevent these three diseases in the future. We can now, and we’re going to even get better at that,” Topol said.

Topol said he learned from his polygenic risk scores that he’s at high risk for coronary artery disease, despite not having a family history. So, he has focused on getting his LDL cholesterol down. “I’ve gotten it low, and perhaps I got more aggressive about that. I’ve checked my other lipids, like Lp(a) (lipoprotein[a]), so I feel like I’ve done everything I can to go into high prevent-mode for that.”

Topol said wants to get his immunome (all the genes and proteins of his immune system) mapped, to measure how well his immune system is functioning. It’s a measurement he believes will one day soon be commonplace for everyone. He already has data on “every virus I’ve ever been exposed to and every autoantibody that I have.”

He also plans on having his organ clocks measured, because different organs (such as the heart and brain) age at different rates, putting people at higher risk for certain diseases. “I think it’s going to be very helpful, because then I’ll know (how) my heart organ clock correlates with my risk of heart disease.

“So those are some of the things I’ve done and/or I want to do,” he said.

“It’s an extraordinary time in medicine, because we have a path to prevention,” Topol said, “because of the way the science of aging (is developing), with these metrics like organ clocks and protein biomarkers and our genetics — all these layers of data — we are going to be able to prevent these diseases. And that’s exciting. We’ve never done that before.”

We hope these insights help you extend your health span. Listen to the full episode here. And join us next week on the Chasing Life podcast when we dive into the mysteries of memory.

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Railway Land Clearance Operation in Jugsalai, Jamshedpur

Dozens of illegal structures demolished; RPF and local police ensure security In a major anti-encroachment drive, the Railway Land Department cleared illegal structures on railway property in Jugsalai, Jamshedpur. JAMSHEDPUR – The Railway Land Department conducted a significant operation to remove encroachments from railway land in Jugsalai, Jamshedpur. The operation targeted unauthorized…

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Dr. Sanjay Gupta: Benefits of vaccines are a matter of fact

Source: CNN

Dr. Sanjay Gupta: Benefits of vaccines are a matter of fact

Source: CNN

No shit

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lets listen to this podcast with mama (me)

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রিক্সাওয়ালা : একজন বাবার সংগ্রামের হৃদয়স্পর্শী গল্প | Rikshawala: New Bengali Web Series Full Short Film Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F7-7vQCSKlU

🎥 Team Credits: Story Name: Rikshawala Category: Bengali Short Film 🎭 Cast: Sanjoy Biswas, Koushanwi Ghosh, Rana Mukherjee, Alok Chatterjee, Rajkumar Sanyal, Málay Mukherjee, Chinmay Chakraborty, Tirtha Bagchi, Joyesh Chatterjee, Udoyan Chakraborty, Arpita Ghosh, Narayan Paul, Devdas Saha, Arun Saha, Sawmen Bera, Mainav, Anjan Halder, Rupsayan Biswas, Sanyasi Banik 🎙️ Vocal Artist: Papiya Chakraborty 🎨 Art Director: Arup Ghosh (Paul) 🎶 Music & Singer: Bappaditya Subhra 🖋️ Lyrics & Script: Tirtha Bagchi 🎚️ Sound Design: Arindam Chowdhury 🎬 Director: Sukamal Nath 🎥 DOP: Debabrata Mallick ✂️ Editor: M. Susmit 💄 Make-up: Md. Mausad Hasan, Rakesh Goswami 🎥 Producer: Arup Ghosh (Paul) 🙏 Special Thanks: Mr. Snehasish Chakraborty & Team Blues 🔧 Crew Highlights: Assistant Director: Shuvam Bhattacharya Assistant Cameraman: Tapas Samadder Art Team: Amit Dutta, Ranjit Dutta, Chiranjit Halder, Pradip Banik Subtitle: Susmita Chaudhury Dubbing Recordist: Koushik Ghosh Electrician: Debu Hazra Hair Dresser: Pinki Gupta Cat Walk: Jitendar Shaw Production Car: Kishore Mitra Production Manager: Partha Pratim Mishra Assistant Manager: Sushanta Acharya Production Assistant: Joydeb Majhi Thank to Sumalya Bhattacharya, Arpendu Narayan Paul, Tanumay Digital Advisor: Sanjay Sen ‪@StudioViolina‬ Label: ‪@ScriptAndSound‬

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