--- In morelife@yahoogroups.com, "Orhan Kulluoglu" <okulluoglu@...> wrote:
>
> A strong Anti-oxidant Astaxanthin is mentioned on Morelife pages:
>
> http://morelife.org/references/pmid_12000000+.html
> 132. Life Sci 2002 Apr 21;70(21):2509-20
> Contribution of the antioxidative property of astaxanthin to its
> protective effect on the promotion of cancer metastasis in mice
> treated with restraint stress.
>
> http://morelife.org/references/pmid_lt12000000.html
> 159. Nutr Cancer 2000;36(1):59-65
> Antitumor activity of astaxanthin and its mode of action.
>
> [The reason these citations are included in the references files is
> because they are cited by notes about changes to our supplement
> regimen pages:
> http://morelife.org/personal/health/his-regimen_changes.html
> http://morelife.org/personal/health/her-regimen_changes.html
> And astaxanthin is included on our current regimen pages:
> http://morelife.org/personal/health/his-regimen.html
> http://morelife.org/personal/health/her-regimen.html
>
> --Paul]

[Rephrasing and correction to grammar in the above. --Paul]

These links to References pages are from change notations related to
our supplement regimen change from powder to capsule astaxanthin that
were made well over 4 years ago, when at the same time we decided that
we should included some reference both for the value of everything
that we take and for any changes that we were noting as made. We
have continued to take this carotenoid for its strong antioxidative
and other properties and actually take considerably more than when we
first started. (See regimen ingredients spreadsheet linked from either
or our Regimen pages.) If we had sufficient time - or assistance from
others - we would have more references or even a separate page for
this carotenoid (particularly relating to why we increased our dosage)
and all of the items that we take or of which of which we change
dosage. Since attention has now been focused on this particular
supplement, we will try to make the time to add references for our
recently increased dosage decision.

>
> I read an old news about Astaxanthin on internet saying
> "Research is showing astaxanthin increases the life span of lab
> animals 37%"
> I wanted to learn whether its mean or maximum life span and
> also on which animal species the experiment was done.
> However, I couldn't find any reference for this.
>
> The link for the news:
> http://www.cyanotech.com/news/news_011800.html

Entering the following search string yielded only 4 abstracts:
astaxanthin AND (lifespan OR "life span" OR anti-aging OR
life-extension OR "life extension" OR longevity OR mortality). All 4
referred to mortality results among salmon when fed or injected with
astaxanthin or fed vegetable oil instead of fish oil. When "mortality"
was removed from the search, the yield was zero. While I have not done
an exhaustive search of Google using the same string, I did not find
any items within the first 4 search result pages that linked
astaxanthin to any lifespan or mortality studies, beyond those found
in the PubMed search. Several sites have lifespan references - even to
animal studies of such - on a page containing the word astaxanthin,
but the subjects are not related to each other.

I have asked Olafur to see if he can find anything more. In the
meantime, Orhan, please consider investigating that sentence in the
report at cyanotech.com further by writing the website or the author
(if you can identify hir) and ask for substantiation of that
statement. If a writer wants to be seen as credible, s/he should only
make such a statement with a cited reference.

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Readers should note that Orhan's message was the first accepted under
the new requirements stated in the Group Policy (in the File section)
and also on the Group's home page, "Posts to this group are only
acceptable when they are specifically addressed to text already in
place on the websites (or to an ongoing discussion of such text begun
on this group or elsewhere) or when they are suggestions for
alterations or changes to those websites, which are supported by
logical and effective reasons why such changes would be beneficial for
the purposes of the websites."

Initially Orhan had sent a message containing only his question and I
responded that he would need to make it conform to the group
requirement (stated above). While he used the first items that came up
with a site search (http://morelife.org/sitesearch.html ), he could
have (more easily, IMO) simply stated, with a link to either of our
Regimen pages, that we take Astaxanthin (with an amount if he wanted
to include that) and ask if among our reasons was information on
lifespan results (maybe in addition to its published carotenoid
value). Then the question regarding the 2000 cyanotech.com
article he had read would have had a clear relationship to MoreLife.org.

I and Paul hope that others will keep this in mind with their
messages, so that iterations are not necessary.

**Kitty