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Oct 9, 2023 · Healthy AgingAnti-Aging with Spermidine – and How It Can Save Your Brain, Heart, and Youth
Sometimes I come across cutting edge information about health therapies that just excites me, and ‘spermidine’ is a case in point. If your first response is: “what the heck is that?” you’ve got plenty of company, even though it was first discovered by the inventor of the microscope, Antonie van Leeuwenhoek, way back in 1678. But only recently have scientists come to appreciate that this compound plays a valuable role in all sorts of key physiological processes and anti-aging, which, no matter your years, is a fascinating proposition.
Sep 18, 2023 · Healthy Aging13 Ways Peptides Make Vibrant Health Happen
Safe to say, just about all of us want to remain as vital as possible for as long as possible. To help our bodies do that, our cells, organs and systems need to work in concert, to ‘talk’ to each other to keep everything running smoothly. Helping to keep that communication moving along are peptides, natural signaling agents which go to work inside in our cells and have a host of positive effects on our physiology. In short, they help make good health things happen throughout the body and it’s a big reason why I’m such a fan of putting peptides to work with a number of my patients.
Sep 11, 2023 · Healthy Aging6 Things to Know About the “Miracle” Drug Ozempic And Its Weight-loss Cousins
Ozempic and a handful of similar drugs have been grabbing countless headlines these days, marketed as ‘miracle drugs’ to millions of people who are struggling with weight problems, not to mention diabetes, which these drugs were originally designed to treat. But are these drugs right for you?
Aug 21, 2023 · Healthy AgingMy 7 Point To-Do List for Aging Well – and Slowly!
One of the most frequent questions I get from my patients is: “How do I slow down aging?” I get it. Nobody wants to look, and more importantly, feel like they’re getting old. And by “getting old,” they mean losing the spark and sparkle and wrinkle-free skin they may have taken for granted in their twenties and thirties. What I tell them is, if you follow some basic rules of slowing down aging, you’ll help take care of the wrinkles on the outside of you at the same time you’re addressing the wrinkles on the inside – dysfunctions in the way your metabolism, cardiovascular system, immune system and your brain work, in other words the big things that can reduce both the quality and the quantity of your years on the planet.
Aug 11, 2023 · Healthy AgingThe Secret to Longevity: The Gut Microbiome
Aging is a natural process, and while we cannot control time, there is a remarkable ecosystem within us—the gut microbiome—that might hold the key to aging gracefully.
Aug 6, 2023 · Healthy AgingHealthy Aging and the Brain: 5 Ways to Improve Neuroplasticity
The importance of exercising our brains as we age and advice for easy ways to strengthen cognitive functioning.
Jul 31, 2023 · Healthy Aging5 Health-Enhancing and Life-Lengthening Benefits of Grandparenting
Parenting. As any mother or father can tell you, it’s not easy. Rewarding, for sure, often joyous, but it’s still a job that can sometimes feel overwhelmingly challenging. (Remember the terrible two’s? The teen years?) But, when all those years of parenting give rise to the next generation and you become a grandparent, delight becomes the default. As a very proud grandfather, it is pure joy to watch my young grandson grow physically, mentally, emotionally is a thing of beauty. And, seeing how much he loves having Janice and me spend time with him, fills us with love and gratitude as we nurture this very special, life-long relationship.
Jul 14, 2023 · Healthy AgingUnlocking Your Brain’s Potential: Increasing Neuroplasticity with Functional Medicine
Neuroplasticity enables the brain to rewire itself, supporting memory formation, rehabilitation after neurological conditions, and overall brain health and longevity – discover how to promote it here!
Jun 16, 2023 · Healthy AgingMethyl-what? A Beginner’s Guide to Methylation
Methylation is a hot topic in health these days, but do you have any idea what it means? Put simply, it’s a cellular process constantly happening in your body, and when it’s working optimally, so are you.
Jun 2, 2023 · Healthy AgingThe Best Ways To Integrate Cold Into Your Life
Looking for ways to benefit from cold exposure? Check out these possibilities to get some cold into your life!
May 8, 2023 · Healthy Aging7 Ways Positive Relationships Support a Healthy Brain, Heart and Life!
While we have finally emerged from the social darkness that came with the pandemic, a lot of us are still working on finding our footing again. It’s not unusual for patients to tell me they don’t go out as much anymore, or don’t see friends and relatives as much as they used to before COVID changed the ground rules. While these slightly untethered feelings are fairly normal, and may be with us for a while, it’s extremely important that we work on rekindling relationships and retraining ourselves to cultivate new ones. Why? Because social interaction is one of the keys to health and longevity.
May 5, 2023 · Healthy AgingOsteoporosis - Take Action To Boost Your Bone Health
Whether you are a young or older person with healthy bones or someone dealing with bone loss - start with the basics.
Apr 17, 2023 · Healthy AgingWhether you have Insulin Resistance, Metabolic Syndrome, or Pre-Diabetes, You Can Stop Diabetes Before it Gets its Hooks in You
The food we eat to keep our metabolism running and us alive can, if we’re not careful, poison us. If we’re consuming too many carbs and not burning them off, glucose (sugar) builds up in the bloodstream which in turn drives up the hormone insulin required to get it out of the blood and into our cells for fuel. Unchecked, that sends us down the path of “insulin resistance” -- the pancreas can’t make enough insulin to do the job because the cells on the receiving end are becoming progressively less sensitive to it. Worst-case scenario: type 2 diabetes – but you don’t have to go there.
Apr 7, 2023 · Healthy AgingOsteoporosis - How Strong Are Your Bones?
I’m the nutritionist at Dr. Lipman’s Eleven Eleven Wellness Center and I recently received a diagnosis of osteoporosis. Osteoporosis is a disease of the bone, learn about the risk factors and how to address them.
Mar 31, 2023 · Healthy AgingLow-Dose Naltrexone: The Best Kept Secret in Autoimmunity, Cancer, and More
What if I told you there was a single medication that could have a dramatic impact on a wide range of conditions including cancer, autoimmunity, Crohn’s disease, and long COVID (just to name a few)? And what if I told you that this medication came with virtually no side effects or adverse risks?
Feb 17, 2023 · Healthy Aging5 Hallmarks of Aging and How to Stop Them in Their Tracks
There are ten distinct hallmarks of aging—the underlying common pathways or mechanisms of aging.
Feb 6, 2023 · Healthy Aging7 Thoughts on Why Everyone Should Explore Wearable Health Tracking Devices
OK, so let’s say you’ve resolved to improve your health this year but got disheartened when the mirror and the numbers on the scale didn’t appear to reflect the effort you’ve been putting in. How to stay motivated regardless? Wearable health tracking devices provide a great boost. Not only do they show you the stuff below the surface, that you literally cannot see, but they provide both doctor and patient with a clearer picture of what’s going on with your physiology before the real ills can get a toehold – that is, if you start monitoring early enough. Wearable health trackers can be literally life-changing, not to mention potentially life-saving – and it’s why I’m encouraging my patients to start using them – and you should too!
Jan 30, 2023 · Healthy Aging5 Foods To Get Rid Of For Better Brain Health
The classic bad-for-your-brain foods are the kinds I’ve talked a lot about a lot over the years – they’re the ones that inflame the body, and drive up risk for numerous chronic health conditions like obesity, high blood pressure, and diabetes, etc. But what we often forget is that this stuff is bad for your head too – pro-inflammatory foods are simply awful for brain health in the near term – think brain fog, anxiety, depression – and long-term, increased risk of developing – Alzheimer’s, dementia, neurological disease., etc. Simply put: you need to kick them now to save your brain.
Jan 23, 2023 · Healthy AgingIs Melatonin The New Anti-Aging Hormone?
Melatonin is becoming a hot corner of the anti-aging research world. A lot of folks are taking a second or third look at melatonin, including me.
Jan 4, 2023 · Healthy AgingHealth Coach Tip - What is NAC?
Adding NAC into your supplement arsenal comes with many benefits, especially throughout flu season, and here’s why.
Dec 12, 2022 · Healthy Aging7 Ways to Save Your Bones and Keep them Healthy
Bones are the scaffolding that holds us up and when they’re lashed together by connective tissue in joints, they allow us to move. When everything is working the way it should, they’re pretty easy to take for granted, that is until you take a tumble and fracture your wrist or your hip. That’s when many women discover that their bones are precariously thin, or worse, dangerously fragile. But, as I tell my patients, the time to wake up to the reality of thinning bone is now, before there’s a calamity and when there’s still time to slow down the loss of bone tissue.
Nov 21, 2022 · Healthy Aging7 Life Saving Reasons to Walk More, and 10 Ways To Do It
Walking. For most of us, it’s easy to do and hey, we do it every day but doing enough of it may be an entirely different question. Chances are, if you’re a traditional, car-driving, office-working person, you’re probably not walking nearly as much as your body would like you to.
Nov 14, 2022 · Healthy AgingWhy I am Such a Big Fan of CoQ10
We’ve all heard the expression, “If it sounds too good to be true, it probably is.” Well, guess what, that’s not always true. Here’s one of my favorite counter-examples from the health world: CoQ10 supplementation. CoQ10 is a vitamin-like compound found in every cell in your body, essential for powering it up. Fortunately, our bodies make it. Not so fortunately, our bodies don’t not make quite enough of it to power us through our whole lives as vigorously as we’d wish. And that’s where CoQ10 supplements come in.
Nov 4, 2022 · Healthy Aging10 Essentials of Aging Well
Functional-medicine pioneer Frank Lipman, MD, offers simple strategies to improve how we age.