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. [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, April 1, 2010
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The older we get, the more our minds seem to play “hide-n-seek” with us. We begin to experience our first “senior moments” when we are not senior at all – like around our early forties, sometimes earlier still. How often have you forgotten what day it is? Following the calendar was never this difficult only [...]
Continue reading...Saturday, March 20, 2010
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Having watched firsthand the diminishing mental acuity of several elderly people I know, I wanted to learn more about keeping my own brain fit and healthy, more as an exercise to alleviate my own anxiety than anything else. I am told it is normal at about the age of fifty to forget where I placed [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, March 11, 2010
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Research teams are now delving to decode the genome sequences and its hidden origins for various diseases. Previously, two independent teams began to study the genome of patient suffering from various health pathologies. The study of genome sequences have up to now only been conducted on healthy individuals. It was extremely costly to decode the [...]
Continue reading...Saturday, March 6, 2010
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Develop your brain’s capability to cultivate new neurons. Our brain is an amazing organ, as we all know; also interesting is the brains ability to continue producing new brain cells daily. However, what is truly astonishing is our own capacity to augment the brains ability to produce these new neurons. Upon turning fifty, [...]
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Tuesday, June 15, 2010
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