Writer Elisabeth Rosenthal has worked as a physician and says it’s far more lucrative in the U.S. health system to provide a lifetime of treatments than a cure. Her new book is An American Sickness. Health care is a trillion-dollar industry in America, but are we getting what we pay for? Dr. Elisabeth Rosenthal, a… Read More »
Older adults who favored this eating style lost less brain volume, study finds Source: More Signs Mediterranean Diet May Boost Your Brain – News – Health.com
The ads started popping up about a decade ago on social media. Instead of selling alcohol with sex and romance, these ads had an edgier theme: Harried mothers chugging wine to cope with everyday stress. Women embracing quart-sized bottles of whiskey, and bellying up to bars to knock back vodka shots with men. In this… Read More »
World’s Oldest PersonBorn on 29 November 1899, Emma Morano is 116 years old and is currently the world’s oldest living person. She is believed to be the last person living born in the 19th century. So, what’s her secret to longevity? Well, she has been following the same diet for around 90 years. She has… Read More »
Ten years ago, Shinya Yamanaka revolutionized biological research with his discovery of how to turn ordinary skin cells into stem cells with just four key genes. Source: Reflecting on the Discovery of the Decade: Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells | Gladstone Institutes
Mice were rejuvenated through a four-gene cocktail that allowed them to repair aging signs including loss of hair and organs malfunction. There were no signs of cancer and compared to untreated mice, the reprogrammed mice looked younger, with better organ function, improved cardiovascular performance and lived 30 percent longer. Source: Study shows aging might be… Read More »
No, your pubic hair cannot prevent STDs. Source: Myths about pubic hair you must stop believing t1216 | Photo Galleries of Weight Loss, Diet Plan, Healthy Recipes, Sexual Health | TheHealthSite.com
The mis information begins with a study that has no causation links to anything just much innuendo and misdirection from facts. Source: Not to shave? In life (and TV), pubic hair is staying on
Dr. Mercola discusses the role of B vitamins and other valuable nutrients to support brain health. Reprinted with the kind permission of Dr. Mercola. By Dr. Mercola A number of studies have investigated the impact of vitamin supplementation to prevent and/or treat cognitive dysfunction and decline. It’s well-established that healthy fats such as animal-based omega-3 fats are… Read More »
Symptoms of small intestinal bacterial overgrowth, according to the SIBO Center for Digestive Health, include: Bloating Belching Cramps Constipation Diarrhea Heartburn (reflux or GERD) Nausea Food sensitivities Headaches Joint pain Fatigue Skin rashes Respiratory symptoms (such as asthma) Mood symptoms (such as depression) Brain symptoms (such as autism) Eczema Steatorrhea (fatty stools) Iron deficiency anemia… Read More »
For decades, neuroscientists and physicians have tried to get to the bottom of the age-old mystery of post-traumatic stress disorder, to explain why only some people are vulnerable and why they experience so many symptoms and so much disability. All experts in the field now agree that PTSD indeed has its roots in very real,… Read More »
February 13, 2013 Shocking Alien Fears Force Pope From Office By: Sorcha Faal, and as reported to her Western Subscribers A stunning Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) report prepared for President Putin, which is circulating in the Kremlin today, states that Pope Benedict XVI was forced to resign this past week over Catholic Church… Read More »
How Can We Defy Aging?Many anti-aging studies are being conducted nowadays with the hope of discovering new methods of finding out which substances can halt the progress of aging in the body. Recently one study has shown that a vitamin, nicotinamide riboside, can stop the aging process in body organs.Nicotinamide riboside is a substance that… Read More »
Mechanisms and methods of methonine restriction Life Extension Benefits of Methionine Restriction by Ben Best CONTENTS: LINKS TO SECTIONS BY TOPIC METHIONINE BASICS METHIONINE RESTRICTION EFFECTS METHIONINE RESTRICTION FOOD DATA METHIONINE RESTRICTION DIET HEART MUSCLE METHIONINE I. METHIONINE BASICS Methionine is the only essential amino acid containing sulfur. Methionine is the precursor of the other… Read More »
She was proud to be a vegan and wanted her son to live like she did. But her family members said she took her food choices too far — her diet became a danger, in their eyes, something closer to an obsession than a healthy lifestyle. “She was going to live on water and sunlight,”… Read More »
Former president Jimmy Carter, who disclosed in 2015 that he had advanced melanoma, was treated with surgery, radiation and an immunotherapy drug. In December, he said his cancer had disappeared. (Elise Amendola/Associated Press) The idea of using the body’s immune system to fight cancer has been around for a century, but only in the past… Read More »
Driven by technological progress, human life expectancy has increased greatly since the nineteenth century. Demographic evidence has revealed an ongoing reduction in old-age mortality and a rise of the maximum age at death, which may gradually extend human longevity. Together with observations that lifespan in various animal species is flexible and can be increased by… Read More »
Source: Next Big Future: Research towards enabling minds as healthy and productive as twenty year olds in people who are 60-80
Source: Next Big Future: Toxic air pollution nanoparticles discovered in the human brain and could be a possible cause of Alzheimer’s disease
Source: Next Big Future: Ten percent have immune systems that ignore HIV and thus the immune system is saved and AIDS does not develop
Source: Next Big Future: Towards pills that can mimick many of the benefits of exercise
Source: Next Big Future: DARPA funds seven teams to modulate nerves to treat disease
Skeletal muscle secretes several bioactive proteins from within the cell into extracellular fluid. The secretion of several proteins, whose levels increase in response to exercise, can mediate exercise-induced benefits such as metabolic improvement, anti-inflammation, and muscle hypertrophy. We recently found a novel muscle-secreted protein SPARC which may be fundamental for the colon cancer prevention mechanism… Read More »
An estimated 180,890 American men will be diagnosed with prostate cancer this year. The disease will also take the lives of 26,120 patients. But according to a new 10-year study conducted on more than 1,500 men in the United Kingdom, those who are diagnosed may want to hold off on starting aggressive treatment right away.Typically,… Read More »
After three months, more than a third of study participants grew back more than half of their lost hair Source: Arthritis drug Xeljanz may help with the hair loss condition alopecia – CBS News
Drug deaths over the past 15 years have been rising so rapidly that experts say they’ve rarely, if ever, seen anything like it. This is America on drugs: A visual guide By Jen Christensen and Sergio Hernandez, CNN Updated 11:28 AM ET, Fri September 23, 2016 In modern history, few things have caused such a… Read More »
The opinions voiced in this material are for general information only and are not intended to provide specific advice or recommendations to any individual. For your individual planning and investing needs, please see your investment professional. Jonathan DeYoe has been a financial advisor in San Francisco for the past two decades, giving him a first-row… Read More »
There are also natural compounds that elevate sirtuins—one is resveratrol, which is already sold as a dietary supplement today. Another is called NAD. NAD—Nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide—is one of the most compelling bits of chemistry related to aging. Its presence in the body is directly correlated with the passage of time: An elderly man will have… Read More »
Archival documents reveal how the sugar industry secretly funded heart disease research by Harvard professors Archival documents reveal how the sugar industry secretly funded heart disease research by Harvard professors The sugar industry has a long history of skewing nutrition science, a new report suggests. By combing through archival documents from the 1950s and… Read More »
An epigenetic clock analysis of race/ethnicity, sex, and coronary heart disease Steve Horvath†Email authorView ORCID ID profile, Michael Gurven†, Morgan E. Levine, Benjamin C. Trumble, Hillard Kaplan, Hooman Allayee, Beate R. Ritz, Brian Chen, Ake T. Lu, Tammy M. Rickabaugh, Beth D. Jamieson, Dianjianyi Sun, Shengxu Li, Wei Chen, Lluis Quintana-Murci, Maud Fagny, Michael S. Kobor, Philip S. Tsao, Alexander P. Reiner, Kerstin L. Edlefsen, Devin Absher† and Themistocles L. Assimes† †Contributed equally Genome Biology201617:171 DOI: 10.1186/s13059-016-1030-0 © The Author(s). 2016 Received: 6 July 2016 Accepted: 18 July 2016 Published: 11 August 2016 Abstract Background… Read More »
Dietary supplements are not regulated the same way as medications nor promoted for huge profits and force fed to the public. This lack of greed in the market helps consumers! Edited from the original bullshit published. SHARES 2.4K Calvin Jimmy Lee-White was tiny. He was born on Oct. 3, 2014, two months premature, weighing about… Read More »
Euthanasia is on it’s way Treating a seriously ill patient who suffers from multiple chronic conditions can be difficult and expensive. These so-called high-need, high-cost (HNHC), or “complex care” patients make up about 5 percent of the U.S. population, but by some estimates, account for 50 percent of healthcare spending. In other words, someone with three or four… Read More »
It is common knowledge that antidepressants can take weeks or even months to start working. But it has been a mystery why antidepressants take so long to take effect. But now there is a ray of light in the darkness. The slowness with which antidepressants take effect has been correlated with the slowness of a… Read More »
Citations Willerson JT, Ridker PM. Inflammation as a Cardiovascular Risk Factor. Circulation. 2004; 109: II-2-II-10 [Link] Barter P, Gotto AM, LaRosa JC, Maroni J, Szarek M, Grundy SM, Kastelein JJ, Bittner V, Fruchart JC; Treating to New Targets Investigators. HDL cholesterol, very low levels of LDL cholesterol, and cardiovascular events. N Engl J Med. 2007… Read More »
High blood pressure is the most important controllable risk factor The researchers looked at the proportion of strokes caused by specific risk factors to determine the extent to which eliminating each risk would reduce the impact of stroke. Eliminating high blood pressure was estimated to reduce risk by nearly 48 percent, the findings showed. The… Read More »
Source: How Our Immune Systems Are Directly Tied To Our Personalities As part of the research conducted at the University of Massachusetts Medical School and the University of Virginia, scientists keyed in on an immune system molecule called interferon gamma. This particular immune system molecule is activated in certain animals – including humans – when… Read More »
The clincher was the link between memory improvement and cathepsin levels, Duzel says. “Those individuals that showed the largest gains in memory also were those that had the largest increase in cathepsin,” he says. Of course, cathepsin is probably just one of several factors linking exercise and brain function, van Praag says. “I don’t think… Read More »
Autophagy – the housekeeper in every cell that fights aging Posted on19. April 2013by James Watson By James P Watson and Vince Giuliano Background and introduction There is a wide variety of genetic manipulations, pharmacologic manipulations, and nutrient manipulations that have been shown to alter lifespan in model organisms. These include caloric restriction, “loss of… Read More »
Source: A simple, comprehensive plan to prevent or reverse Alzheimer’s Disease and other neurodegenerative diseases – Part 1: The Plan | AGINGSCIENCES™ – Anti-Aging Firewalls™ A simple, comprehensive plan to prevent or reverse Alzheimer’s Disease and other neurodegenerative diseases – Part 1: The Plan Posted on 18. February 2015 by James Watson By James… Read More »
Scientists now know a lot about Alzheimer’s disease, and preventive therapies probably aren’t far off. But even when they become available, such therapies will almost certainly be very expensive. The only products currently being tested in large-scale Alzheimer’s prevention trials are antibodies against the Alzheimer’s-associated amyloid beta (Aβ) protein. Antibodies are large and delicate proteins… Read More »
The Inflammatory Seven- Foods That Increase Inflammation Soda pop and sugary drinks Commercial dairy products including commercial milk, ice creams and powdered milks Meat including smoked or cured luncheon meat, sausage, bologna, bacon and ham Most commercially refined vegetable oils French fries or, for that matter, pretty much anything deep fried Commercial baked goods made… Read More »
Telomerase and cancer Jerry W. Shay1,+, Ying Zou1, Eiso Hiyama2 and Woodring E. Wright1 + Author Affiliations 1The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Department of Cell Biology, 5323 Harry Hines Boulevard, Dallas, TX 75390-9039, USA and 2Department of General Medicine, Hiroshima University School of Medicine, Hiroshima, Japan Next Section Abstract Telomerase, a eukaryotic ribonucleoprotein… Read More »
D EMENTIA P REVENTION D EBORAH C OLSON MS C D IP ION Guildford GP Education – Update Week Royal Surrey County Hospital, 6 November 2014. Source: Presentation “D EMENTIA P REVENTION D EBORAH C OLSON MS C D IP ION Guildford GP Education – Update Week Royal Surrey County Hospital, 6 November 2014.”
Source: Next-Generation Biomarkers of Health – Abstract – Next-Generation Nutritional Biomarkers to Guide Better Health Care – Karger Publishers
In one study, the researchers show that a reactivated herpes infection doubled the risk of developing Alzheimer’s disease. This study had 3,432 participants who were followed for 11.3 years on average. In another study, 360 people with Alzheimer’s disease were examined and compared to 360 others who had not developed dementia. The samples were taken… Read More »
PMC full text: Aging (Albany NY). 2014 Sep; 6(9): 707–717. Published online 2014 Sep 27. Copyright/License ▼Request permission to reuse Copyright : © 2014 Bredesen This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and… Read More »
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Reversal of cognitive decline: A novel therapeutic program Dale E. Bredesen1,2 Author information ► Article notes ► Copyright and License information ► This article has been cited by other articles in PMC. Go to: Abstract This report describes a novel, comprehensive, and personalized therapeutic program that is based on the underlying pathogenesis of Alzheimer’s disease,… Read More »
Reversal of cognitive decline in Alzheimer’s disease Dale E. Bredesen1,2, Edwin C. Amos3, Jonathan Canick4, Mary Ackerley5, Cyrus Raji6, Milan Fiala7, and Jamila Ahdidan8 1Easton Laboratories for Neurodegenerative Disease Research, Department of Neurology, University of California, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA 2Buck Institute for Research on Aging, Novato, CA 94945, USA 3Department of Neurology, University… Read More »
Alzheimer’s disease is one of the most significant healthcare problems nationally and globally. Recently, the first description of the reversal of cognitive decline in patients with early Alzheimer’s disease or its precursors, MCI (mild cognitive impairment) and SCI (subjective cognitive impairment), was published [1]. The therapeutic approach used was programmatic and personalized rather than monotherapeutic… Read More »