Something drastic needs to be done. People are dying by the thousands and casualties are rising daily. The death is rampant and there seems to be no end in sight to it all. Worse yet, it is not just in one location but in many regions of the world. One would think I am talking [...]
Continue reading...Saturday, July 17, 2010
A research is suggesting that aging and wisdom go hand-in-hand. There is a particular molecule linked with learning, memory and aging. The well-known anti-aging protein SIRT1 appears to have several roles. It does both reduce the aging effect as well as helping learning and memory to be enhanced. This study was published online in Nature [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, June 24, 2010
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It happens to everyone. We forget where we put our car keys, cannot place a name with a face, these are natural memory lapses that happen to us all as we get older. They begin to occur more frequently the older we get and when it becomes worrisome we should speak to our physician, no [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, June 24, 2010
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Do you think you will remember everything as you age? Well, it depends. Researchers at the Princeton University have carried out a study that shows that there are two methods of prolonging a person life span that have very varied impacts on the performance of the memory and decline with age. The study is published [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, June 15, 2010
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There is no doubt about it; it has become extremely difficult to sift through the commercial hype with regards to supplements. A person could lose sleep in their attempt to separate the fact from fantasy while establishing which supplements work and which ones do not, what can harm you and what is safe. As far [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, June 9, 2010
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The value we place on our cars is sometimes more than we give our brains – proof of this is riding a motor cycle without a helmet. That is a different topic however. What I am discussing here is keeping our cognitive ability well after we are old enough to get a discount everywhere we [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, June 3, 2010
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Unless an advertiser wishes to risk a penalty by placing an advertisement promising you will live longer if you partake of a certain product or service, you will not see this form of false advertising in the media. That is why when a particular New York Times edition had dedicated a complete page talking about [...]
Continue reading...Friday, May 28, 2010
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Longevity and how to extend your life is actually quite possible and hard science backs it up. Are you the kind of person that never accepts anything as truth until there is evidence to back it up? If you count yourself as a skeptic, you are certainly not on your own and you can be [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, May 27, 2010
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Recently at a family gathering it occurred to me how old we were all getting. Sure, our chronological age never eluded me, I knew how old everyone was but somehow seeing each person for the first time in well over a year made quite a difference at this gathering. Sagging skin, age spots, graying hair [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, April 28, 2010
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The general feeling of most people is that genetics plays the most significant role in determining the life spans of most people, lifestyle choices are not as important to the process. This theory was knocked flat due to several studies that evaluated the progression of age and used sets of twins to make their discoveries. [...]
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