I have been simplifying the mainpage. I moved sections Diet, Supplements, Drugs and Medications and Living Conditions under a new health section. I also added a new section to the Health section called Exercise.

I have also moved Biological Pathogens, Mitochondria, Cancer and Symbiosis to under Molecular biology

OK I have been thinking about emotions today especially anger.

I read the how stuff works article on anger and posted to imminst about it.

http://health.howstuffworks.com/human-nature/emotions/other/anger1.htm

http://www.imminst.org/forum/index.php?showtopic=30800&hl=

I then decided to start a section on rejuvepedia about controlling the emotional state.

I'd like to anger less.. laugh and cry more.. be more affectionate and so on.

I've been joining in discussion on imminst about soft tissue calcification. Basically I can see that hypothryoidism contributes to the build up of calcium and plaque in the heart and arterial walls. K2 is a vitamin that helps stop this.

I was also reading the article "Coronary plaque: Is your thyroid to blame?" on trackyourplaque.com Damn it being a subscription site and me being broke but it did give me some information and ideas. I wasn't able to read the full article as it told me I need to be a member to see the rest of the article.

http://www.trackyourplaque.com/library/fl_06-029hypothyroid.asp

One interesting thing I have come across is the theory that nanobacteria exist inside tissues and cells that make a calcium based carbonate apatite formation. This is the major cause of the buildup of plaque.

There is a company listed on one of the US stock exchanges called nanobaclabs is studies and has released numerous documents and papers about the role of these nanobacteria in plaque and soft tissue calcification.

Here is there website:

http://www.nanobaclabs.com/

I have added a page called Calcifying Nanobacterium to the site on the "protect yourself againt" section on the mainpage.

I have also starting building the page on the thyroid gland.

Here is the link to the imminst discussion about calcification. http://www.imminst.org/forum/index.php?showtopic=30691&st=0

Of the things recommended to help break up calcification were D3, K2, Chanca piedra, EDTA but it it appears that K2 is better and safer than EDTA.

Some anti nanobacterium therapies use a combination of EDTA and an antibiotic such as tetracycline. These can be found on the nanobaclabs website.

In recent weeks I have been putting consideration and action into the the problem of bad breath. It is quite clear to me now that I had an issue with my breath that I was not aware of. I had done everything else e.g. getting a scale and clean, using an ionic toothbrush and starting to floss but I still had the problem of bad breath. To make matters worse I was not aware of the how my breath smelt to others. I had been looking it up on the internet and I discovered that the way to test how your breath smells is actually to lick your forearm and wait about 60 seconds. After that smell the area that you licked and that is what your breath smells like. Well I tried it one morning and it smelled pretty awful.

How I was alerted to the smell of my breath was that I was out a shop with a girl by name of Tara. She suggested we go to a healthfood store because she was looking for something for her skin. When going into the healthfood store she told me that my breath stank and asked me if I had brushed my teeth. I had of course been brushing my teeth in fact I was using the sola dey eco ionic toothbrush and was flossing regularly. The problem was not what was on my teeth but what was on my tongue.

I asked the lady at the health food store was she recommended and she said chlorophyll. This had been suggested to me a while ago by another lady as something I could take to improve my body odor. She was also recommending inner health plus probiotics but I wasn't sure about this. I also wasn't sure which one of us she was recommending them to. Perhaps she thought we were a couple.

I didn't buy the inner health plus there and then but after thinking about and reading up on the internet about the problem more over the next couple of days I decided to get some protein dissolving enzymes based on the theory that the hydrogen sulfide was produced by bacteria that live off proteins in the mouth and on the tongue. I also read that pro-bioitics would help a lot but I was more gung-ho to get the protein dissolving enzymes. I went to a another healthfood store this time one local to me and I spoke to a lady that worked there. I told her I was looking for something to get rid of bad breath and was considering either protein dissolving enzymes or pro biotics. She recommended the inner health plus to me and some broad spectrum digestive enzymes. I bought both. I'm really glad now I bought the inner health plus because when I got home I emptied some into a glass of water and gargled with the water then spat it out.

It didn't take long for my breath to improve quite a lot and my tongue to turn a much healthier pink color. The digestive enzymes were interesting because I accidentally tried using the digestive enzymes once to gargle with and they smelt disgusting. I thought at first it was the probiotics and they had gone off. It was only then I realised I had the wrong capsule.

I will now include a link to an old Listerine commercial. The funny thing is that the listerine does not actually kill the bacteria responsible for bad breath or if it does it easily repopulates. Fight fire with fire kill bacteria with an army of another bacteria.

Advacements in bioatomic imaging

There is an article on science daily "New Microscope Able to 'See' Atoms for First Time: Atomic Structure of Tiny Virus Imaged" http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/05/100504095216.htm

This is quite interesting because we can learn a lot more about virus's and the different stages of their life cycle. It may be possible to learn how to interfere with viruses to stop them infecting cells.

Gene therapy to improve vision

"Looks like we have found a cure for genetic blindness (clinical trial — abstract — paper [PDF] — ABC News video). This gene therapy treatment increases both cone and rod photoreceptor-based vision. These engineered viruses are implanted to do our bidding to restore vision. Clinical trials on 6 children and young people proved the therapy and didn't find any notable side effects."

http://science.slashdot.org/story/10/05/03/2341209/Gene-Therapy-Restores-Sight-To-Blind

lipopolysaccharides

Scientists Discovered How Bacteria Builds Its Molecular Shield ( lipopolysaccharides ) Against Our Immune System

Scientists have combined chemistry and biology research techniques to explain how certain bacteria grow structures on their surfaces that allow them to simultaneously cause illness and protect themselves from the body's defenses.

http://www.physorg.com/news191396901.html

Community and outreach

Heales have launched the heales journal of biogerontology (HBJ).

It will allow people to submit manuscripts for peer review. There is already an opensource journal system called PLoS one but HBJ is specific to aging to it will be interesting to watch. It will be interesting to see how this relates to the journal of rejuvenation research.

http://www.healesjournal.org/

Wiki development

I have been experimenting with mind maps and hypergraphs. I have downloaded Freemind and started to make some mind maps for the different systems of the body.

There is an extension to display mind map mm files created with Freemind in either flash or Java but for the time being I have gone with the simpler option of taking a screenshot of the mindmap and saving the section as a png file and uploading the png file to Rejuvepedia.

Here is an example:

The red icons with the white strip denotes that the page requires development.

I didn't go the way of installing the freemind extension because basically that didn't really make it much easier for people to collaborate either.

Looking at the discussion page for the freemind extension I have seen that a better option may well use text in the wiki specifying parent and child relationships and build the mindmap using that. That will make improve collaboration but at a cost of making the mindmap editing process less visual.

I am also looking into Hypergraphs and the Semantic graph extension. The hyper graph is really neat check out: http://semanticgraph.sourceforge.net/

The hypergraph is the third graph on that page. You can use your mouse to select and zoom into parts of the hypergraph and explore sections and branches in more detail.

To use the Semantic graph extension it says we need:

• Semantic mediawiki
• Semantic Forms
• Graphviz

http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Semantic_Graph

At the moment Rejuvepedia is not a semantic wiki. The idea of making Rejuvepedia a semantic wiki sounds really cool and could probably make it much more robust and powerful. It would be a big jump from what we have now though and I would test all of this stuff on a separate installation before going live on the main website.

Collaboration and outreach

Still on the subject of hypergraphs it has struck me that I don't know of anyone that has made a hypergraph of the human anatomy. I did a little google searching but could not find one. It is something that Rejuvepedia could really benefit from and so could other projects as well. I could perhaps try to get in touch with people from anatowiki to see if this is a project we could collaborate on.

Wiki development

I haven't been blogging much lately. There have been some minor modifications. I have started adding a "more" hyperlink from each section on the front page to try to make it more user friendly in case people didn't know they could click on the heading. I tried adding an image button for more like in adciv.org but I just couldn't get it to work so text it is.

I have also been working on the table of antibiofilm agents and put up a video about honey being used to treat diabetic wounds on the feed.

I also added a video to the Teeth section from experts village posted on youtube about proper brushing technique.

Personal health

I recently ordered some Soladey eco toothbrushes from online retailer. The tooth brush does seem to be working. I have brushed twice with it so far and also was a lot more careful to brush everywhere especially parts of my teeth that I normally miss. I ended up with the gums around my wisdom teeth bleeding. I must miss that area a lot. I brushed my teeth again with the Soladey in the morning and there was still some blood but I am hoping that it will stop soon.

I feel pretty bad about how long I have been using a very substandard and slack toothbrushing technique.

BTW here is a video about the Soladey Eco

Community development and out reach

I have also been in contact with Edouard of http://www.longecity.com/

He has developed a very nice portal for the life extension scene and communities. The website also has an active topics button which is the show active forum posts from various life extension forums. When I first looked you could see forum posts from both imminst and mfoundation.org but now I only seen posts from imminst. When trying to joing mfoundation.org forums so I could post a suggestion that they start a wiki I was completely unable to register because registration had been disabled by the administration.

Rejuvepedia does have a forum but they aren't really used very much. The software is the AWC forums and there isn't a lot of work going into developing them at the moment. There is a new version that is still in alpha I believe but they might not be ready for release for quite a while at the main developer is actually now doing a lot of work on his own house.

The AWC software is worth keeping an eye on though and I could consider testing out the new software on a separate wiki installation. Mediawiki 1.16 will probably be out in not to long and I would like to update to that when it is available.

Discussions on imminst

I also recently posted a topic on the computer science section of imminst in regards to data mining.

http://www.imminst.org/forum/index.php?showtopic=40377&hl=

I was basically talking about the differences between forums and wikis and how the developed of the imminst wiki has stalled despite such an active forum presence. I suggested that the best way to get data out of the forum and into the imminst wiki rather than interrogation of posters was actually to datamine the forum in such as way that we take most of the grunt work out of sorting posts into relevant sections ready to write wiki articles on.

So far no one has replied to the post and I could really do a lot more work and research on the topic myself. Quite a few people have viewed the topic and those people are quite active on imminst so I don't think my post has fallen on deaf ears.

It is definitely a subject to follow up and blog more about and hopefully we can have some more action in this area.

I have added the intro text for the exercise section as well as started creating the suppelments section.

I have added a link to the imminst discussion on "Cyclist in need of Mitochondrial Biogenesis" to the Mitochondria section under "Molecular biology".

I also have been investigating my nearlyfreespeech account. It seemed as if I was rapidly losing pennies from my webhosting account. I was getting charged 1c a day for about 16 different sites many of them not being used or only having static content. I deleted a lot of them and the rest I made sure were on static content. I also went through and removed a lot of unneeded DNS entries. Hopefully the loss of pennies from my nearlyfreespeech account will now be at a much slower rate.

I got a response back in regards to my question of mediawiki and HTML5.

http://www.mwusers.com/forums/showthread.php?14521-HTML5-integration&highlight=html5

"Not yet.

The core team is looking into changing the DocType to HTML5, but it's in the very early stages."

I have also posted again to imminst asking JLL for more advice on improving the wiki mainpage:

http://www.imminst.org/forum/index.php?showtopic=27554&st=40&p=396872&#entry396872

What should be do about our banner?