Aging and Longevity Articles

The American thyroid Association states, “An estimated 20 millio Americans have some form of thyroid disease. Up to 60 percent of those with thyroid disease are unaware of their condition. Women are five to eight times more likely than men to have thyroid problems. One woman in eight will develop a thyroid disorder during her lifetime.

Did you know that the average primary care doctor’s office visit is less than 11 minutes? How can anyone get to the root cause and treat a whole person in that amount of time?

Selenium is a vital trace mineral found in every cell of the body and is required for proper body function. The fact is that higher concentrations of this mineral is not needed, hence it is referred as a micronutrient. Although only small amounts are required on a daily basis, it is an essential nutrient for our body.

Achievement, victory, accomplishment, and attainment are all terms that we commonly associate with success. It is today’s hallmark that we link success with monetary gain. As many of us have discovered, financial wealth does not guarantee bliss nor bring a satisfying meaning to life. Fiscal wealth can create different opportunities for you and make the ‘creature comforts’ of life easier to obtain. However, money by itself is not the ultimate measure to meaningful success.

December is the time of year of many holiday celebrations that involves eating more food than usual. Special holiday sweets – cookies, candies, cakes, and pies – are always part of the merrymaking that most people look forward to creating and eating. It helps draw our attention to a disease that limits thousands of Americans from indulging in traditional holiday sweets.

Its always mixed feelings when we approach year-end. We get busy to meet our end year budget for our company or close our books for the year. On the other hand, we try to squeeze in some time in between to pamper ourselves so that we can look good for the year end parties in December. Isn't it true that our big plans to go for treatments and look good are always foiled by our hectic work schedule in Q4 every year? There is one way to ensure that you keep to your beauty schedule: Line up some crucial beauty appointments in advance so that you’ll stick with it.

It turns out that getting the proper amount of sleep each night is perhaps the number one thing we can do to live longer and healthier lives. More studies showing the consequences to lack of sleep continue to appear. And it is also looking like sleep depravation can not be made up at a future date. The damage is done.

With people living longer and medical treatments improving, anti-aging medicine is slowly becoming a lucrative business. If numbers are anything to go by, the global Botox market is valued at USS3.8 billion in 2017 and it is expected to hit US$9.8 billion by the end of 2025. Medical equipment companies are aware of the growing market of anti-aging medicine, urging them to develop new technology and treatments to potentially achieve newer, better results that benefit patients.

Let’s recap the important concepts of the last article (Nutrition (Part 1)). The first important concept is that in order to optimally perform the daily process of repairing the body and meeting its energy demands; we must eat <u>REAL</u> foods and eat very little industrially altered, manufactured pseudo-foods. The second is that consistently eating too much and too often is the fast track to metabolic syndrome, a fat belly, type 2 diabetes, loss of health and function and a pain-filled old age.

Until 1990 tryptophan was by far the most popular natural sleep aid on the market. In 1990 the United States Food and Drug Administration pulled all tryptophan from store shelves due to a sudden outbreak of eosinophilic-myalgia syndrome that occurred among some people who had taken the sleep aid. Once the United States banned the nutrient many other countries soon followed. Ultimately almost five thousand people reported getting sick and twenty seven people died from the serious illness. The symptoms included muscle pain, weakness, and severe joint pain.

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When most people here hops they immediately think of beer. Hops provide a bitter aromatic flavor to beer. They are used to offset the sweetness of the malt in beer production. Before people began using hops in beer brewing many other herbs and flowers were regularly used for bitte ess including dandelion, burdock root, and heather. Hops have a strong antibacterial property and it was noticed that when they were used in beer production the beer would last much longer and not be as prone to spoiling.

In my last article I described the absolute essential nature of the two fats; linoleic acid (LA) and alpha-linolenic acid (LNA), how the human body cannot make these fats and requires them to have life at all, let alone health. I further described how modern food processing removes nearly all of the LNA in any manufactured or processed foods, especially the cooking oils and salad oils you see in clear bottles on our grocery shelves.

In the last few decades the large pharmaceutical companies have made a concerted effort to get as many people as possible using prescription medicines. Often our doctors are willing accomplices in the business strategy of these drug companies. Of course the more people that are dependant on these medications the more money the drug companies and the doctors make. This effort has paid off in billions of dollars in pharmaceutical sales each year. Nearly half of all Americans are currently using at least one prescription medication.

Aging is a natural process that everyone has to go through regardless of your race or ethnicity. The natural process of aging and gravity’s toll will cause your skin to age and sag. You might think that you didn’t sleep well the previous night but you know that sleeping early will no longer cause your skin to go back to its original place.

First, cut this out and put it on your refrigerator with some magnets: SIGNS OF A STROKE – SAVE A LIFE! Tell the person: S “Smile.” T “Talk to me. Say, ‘Mary had a little lamb.’” R “Raise both arms.” O “Open your mouth and stick out your tongue.” Then you: K Kall 911 if the person has trouble with any ONE of these. E Educate others on these signs.

Magnesium is the fourth most common mineral in the human body and is needed for more than 300 biochemical processes. It is essential for normal muscle and nerve function and is commonly recommended for any type of muscle cramping, muscle spasms, and restless leg syndrome. Magnesium plays a major role in the absorption of calcium, and therefore critical in preventing age related bone loss. It is advised to take half the milligrams of magnesium to calcium in your supplement regime. Magnesium also helps to regulate blood glucose levels; it is needed to regulate proper blood pressure levels.

(Part 1 of a 5 part series discussing the delicate issue of asking an elderly parent to retire from their driving career) Remember that day way-back-when that you finally mustered up the strength to sit your adolescent son or daughter down on the living room’s couch, and begin the dreadful process of explaining the birds and bees? Don’t you still wonder what you even said, and what it must have sounded like? Now…do you want the good news or the bad news first?

On stage in front of 500 women at the first Sister GIANT gathering the end of February, Marianne Williamson stood as a radiant beacon calling women to use their power to make Earth a better place for us all. You’d never believe she’s 57. Or even 47. Stunningly beautiful with a trim, curves-in-the-right-places body, Marianne is the epitome of a Baby Boomer who will never be old. Why? For one thing she has no time or patience to absorb the programming and conditioning of old age.

I don’t know how many of my patients come in with constant lower back pain to some degree. They’ve tried muscle relaxants, stretching, heating pads, but somehow it always returns. There isn’t anything really wrong with their backs. They didn’t injure themselves in any way, haven’t been over-exercising, or doing heavy house or outdoor work, haven’t been lifting any heavy objects or moving furniture. Yet, they have chronic lower back pain and want to know why.

“Hey, Ellen,” a friend called to me from two check-out counters away in the supermarket, “did you see the cover story in TIME magazine about epigenetics?” He wasn’t the only one asking me if I’d seen the issue a few months ago called “Why Genes Aren’t Destiny.” They were all aware that in my talks I tell about the latest scientific findings in epigenetics that prove beliefs and thoughts affect how the body changes with age. And I always quote the first scientist to share his research findings on epigenetics, the internationally recognized cell biologist, Dr. Bruce Lipton.

Many of my patients, older than 40, ask me what products to use on their skin to keep it from showing signs of aging. Although there are products I would recommend to keep skin youthful looking, there are plenty of natural remedies and solutions that prevent skin aging from the inside out. Paying attention to what you put in your body nutritionally can really pay off in helping your skin stay young. Here’s what I recommend: Prevent Aging Skin with Good Nutrition

When you push exercise to your aerobic limits, your cardiovascular/pulmonary system improves; it's called the 'training effect'. Your body adapts to the measured stress by becoming more efficient at getting oxygen to the cells, and the cells become more efficient in performing all their various functions. The bottom line is that the perceived effort in climbing a flight of stairs goes down; you don't have to breathe as hard to get to the top, and you recover from being out of breath faster.

Most people that have any of the common digestion problems are lacking in either probiotics or digestive enzymes. These digestive problems can be everything from heart burn, diarrhea, constipation, nausea, and gas to more serious conce s like diverticulosis and ulcers. Both probiotics and enzymes are essential for breaking down the food we eat into usable caloric energy. But, it is often very impossible to know which one of these we are lacking. In many cases we are lacking in both.

Aesthetic laser treatment is estimated to worth about US$400 million in the U.S. annually, according to a 2011 industry report. This is partially due to the ever-increasing costs of the CO2 and ND:YAG laser machines, which are typically in the range of US$50,000 each.

Every now and then a patient will tell me that their urine looks “funny” sometimes. When I ask them what they mean by that, they invariably tell me that it seems to change colors. They’re conce ed if these color changes are anything to worry about. Here’s what I tell them: What Color Is Your Urine? Urine can be different colors throughout the day depending on the amount of urochrome, a natural pigment, formed by the breakdown of red blood cells, which is present in urine.r

Recently, we were the speakers at a ‘caregivers’ night in a local desert community. After the conclusion of the official program, we opened the floor for those that had specific issues to address. The common question we heard was, “Why can’t I get my dad to get dressed on time in the morning? ...

“Studies show that one of the most accurate predictors of longevity is what a person thinks about their own health,” says Dr. Larry Dossey, MD, author and one of the top experts in mind-body medicine. Recent research shows that your mind, not your genes, is the primary determining factor in how long you live and how healthy you’ll be. World-renowned cell biologist, Dr. Bruce Lipton, has done extensive research into how the mind influences our biology.

LEADING DERMATOLOGIST RECOMMENDS LIFECELL My name is Janet Allenby, I am a dermatologist who has been practicing for many... many years. I am excited to report to you that now many expensive Botox injection sessions and cosmetic surgeries can be either postponed or eliminated completely because of a brand new cosmeceutical that can postpone or even prevent the need for these invasive procedures in the first place. Hard to believe? Of course, it is. I wouldn't believe it myself, if I hadn't seen it with my own eyes.

You may have 45,990 unique chemical exposures from personal care products. Are they safe? The American woman uses 12 personal care products per day with 126 unique ingredients and men use 6, multiply that by 365 days per year and you have a large exposure that your liver and kidneys have to process. Your brain, hormone systems and nervous system have to cope with them as well. Cosmetics and personal care products are the least regulated products and not much attention is paid to health conce s from prolonged chemical exposure.

There are some topics that are never easy for a patient to bring up. But in many cases, those things that are too embarrassing to talk about are the ones that are having the most effect on your daily quality of life. It’s important to trust your doctor and address your health issues. Even the ones that are uncomfortable to talk about… like incontinence.

I sometimes wonder if a doctor knows you’re on Medicare they will just “load you up” with all kinds of prescriptions or supplies and not even payMedicare help, Medicaid help, trust attention to your condition or other prescriptions you might be on. My dilemma is that my husband, who has congestive heart failure, went to see an endocrinologist the other day.

There is Life Without Chemo, at Aging Younger we know that cancer is NOT the disease but merely the symptom of the disease, the disease being an acidic and an anaerobic environment (the body). Based on this fact, we empower our clients with the tools for the body to heal itself naturally because: We know that Health is a Choice We know that the body has the innate ability to heal itself We know that the soul, mind and body connection is an integral part of self-healing. We know that alkalinity is your friend and acidity is not.

What’s fishy about your fish oil? The standard bottles boast over 2,000 mg in a capsule. However when your read the fine print, the part of the oil that has the benefits of decreasing inflammation, lowering cholesterol and preventing clotting and other health benefits are the eicosapentaenoic acid (EPA) and docosahexaenoic acid (DHA) components. When you read the label, the EPA and DHA are usually 720mg or less.

Any diet can be associated with weight loss; the question is will it leave you metabolically better or worse. There is still controversy about low fat versus low carbohydrate diets. After reviewing the literature and comments and conclusions of researchers, there is evidence to suggest that weight loss for the first 6 months is better in men and women on low carbohydrate diets than low fat diets. All conclude that there are no long-term studies on safety or efficacy of either low fat or low carbohydrate diets.

Brain health is today's hottest health topic. While research gives us more and more answers about how we can safeguard our brain health and significantly lower our risk for diseases such as Alzheimer's, the average person has little idea what exactly they can do. Often I am asked what we can do to boost everyday memory and protect our long-term brain health. Here are my top 10 things I think everyone should absolutely know about brain health – and they might just surprise you!

For more than 20 years I believed that when working out in the gym more was better. I still see people in the gym for hours believing that this is what is needed to achieve results.

This is Part 3 of a 5 part series addressing the delicate issue of asking an elderly parent to retire from their driving career. In our previous article "Giving Up the Keys…Who Should Do the Talking?” we discussed “who” should actually participate in the conversation of driving cessation. Today we will briefly discuss “why” an older driver might be so reluctant in deciding to transition from the driver’s seat to the passenger seat, even when they know it’s in the best interest of safety.

Not feeling like yourself anymore? Are you perhaps feeling fat, flabby, flaky, foggy, fatigued or forgetful? When you go doctors, they say you’re stressed, getting old or this is “normal for your age.” You may be prescribed some medication with side effects that are scarier than the symptoms. You ask yourself, “Does it really have to be this way?” There is a better way to combat the signs and symptoms of aging, illness and degenerative disease.. What’s your biological age?

Dear Health-Minded Readers, Some of my over 40 male patients are conce ed about whether or not they may have erectile dysfunction. We go over their symptoms (see below) and often times they do have a classic ED picture. However, when I ask these patients if anyone in their family has had heart disease, they’re frequently baffled at what that has to do with their ED? As I explain, though there are other causes of ED, recent research has shown that a man’s heart health can also be directly related to ED symptoms. Here’s why. Your Heart and Your ED

Throughout my years of practice in medical aesthetics, I have been asked by my clients all the time about the differences between Ellanse and other dermal fillers in Singapore and which is better. I like to offer a range of fillers in my clinic as it gives me the choice to discuss the benefits of different fillers and find the best one that will genuinely suit them.

Often times I have patients who will tell me they hear funny snapping, crackling and popping noises coming from their knees, hips, ankles, wrists during different motions and wonder if they’ve cracked or damaged the bone somehow. I assure them this is, generally, not the case and that those funny noises can be caused by a number of things that I’d like to share with you. Why Your Bones Are Talking To You

A short time ago we were engaged to assist with a large scale merger. The senior management recognized that the working philosophies of the two companies needed a new joint culture, one more contemprary than either had been using. As they planned their first corporate retreat, we assisted in ...

These newsletters from Sing Your Life Enterprises were sent to 1757 members of Sing Your Life and are posted here for singers worldwide to receive motivation and inspiration to continue their musical pursuits. We offer them here for everyone to read. This particular article was originally written in the SingYourLife Newsletter of November, 2001 IN THIS ISSUE: Getting Through the Holidaysr Remember...Stay out of your head! The Holidays! This Holiday season is bound to be like no other we have ever known. Ther

I encourage my 50-and-older patients to get a bone density test every year. As this test tells me if they’re losing or maintaining their bone density and strength. The pelvis and femur bones of the hips and upper thighs are especially significant as we get older because they support our body walking and standing and, really, with any activity we do. If bones become weak through loss of density, they are at increased risk for serious fractures. Fortunately, there are safe, natural health options for maintaining the strength of your bones. Maintaining Healthy Bones with pH Monitoring

In this New Year, many of us have noble goals such as, to stop smoking, to continue a college education, to learn snowboarding, or even, to take the dog to training school. And how proud we are when we excel at the new skill or the dog learns to sit successfully! However, how many of us are ...