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Jul 22, 2022 · Healthy AgingChronological Vs. Biological Age
It’s easy to feel the urge to turn back time as you watch the years quickly pass you by. Luckily, your chronological age (i.e., how old you are) may not be what defines your vitality. The concept of biological age is another way to consider how old you are, and it doesn’t involve looking at how many years you’ve lived.
Jun 20, 2022 · Healthy Aging7 Essential Ways to Protect Your Heart – and Save Your Brain
As the heart goes, so goes the brain. At one level, it’s common sense that the major organ systems in your body depend on each other. If one organ heads south – be it the kidneys, lungs, liver, what have you – the whole person is in trouble. But the connection between heart and brain is especially intimate. They can help each other, and hurt each other in ways that, odds are, will determine how long and how well you live from middle age on. Our advice? Do everything you can to protect them both.
Jun 17, 2022 · Healthy AgingSlow Down Aging With Meditation
In her debut book Why Meditate? Because it Works, Vedic Meditation expertJillian Lavender shares ten reasons why meditation, when done properly, has the power to positively change the way you feel and perform. One key benefit of a daily meditation practice is to rest the nervous system and provide an antidote to premature aging.
Jun 3, 2022 · Healthy AgingHow NAD+ Impacts Your Sleep
A healthy sleep schedule may be one of the most underrated ways to maintain overall health. One effective way to support a healthy sleep pattern is by supplementing NAD+.
May 27, 2022 · Healthy AgingA Lesson From Centenarians: Physical Activity
In general, those who reach age one hundred in good health have stayed active or very active into old age. There are of course exceptions. If you look at centenarians, or even just within your own extended family, you will likely find someone who beat the odds: eating whatever they wanted, seldom exercising, yet making it to a ripe old age.
May 23, 2022 · Healthy AgingHormesis: The Little 'Good Stress' Keeps You Young
How well you age is largely under your control, with genetics thought to be responsible for just 25% of your health. What that means is that incorporating healthy behaviors now is an excellent way help slow your aging roll over time, boost longevity and sidestep many of the problems that can take the life out of your lifespan. How create a better and longer ‘healthspan’? One of the simplest and most effective ways is to do it is to harness the health-boosting power of hormesis.
May 20, 2022 · Healthy AgingCellular Health: A Key To Healthy Aging
Many people are aware that the human body is made up of microscopic cells. However, not everyone is aware that you can take steps to maintain your health on a cellular level. Cellular health is a modern approach to wellness that involves supporting your body’s health by keeping your cells abundant and thriving.
May 2, 2022 · Healthy Aging8 Simple Ways to Slow Aging from the Inside Out
If you want to increase your “healthspan” – the number of healthy years you can enjoy – step away from the Botox needle and towards these highly effective youth-preservers, to stay young on the inside
Apr 11, 2022 · Healthy Aging9 Ways to Hack Your HGH (Human Growth Hormone) – And Put the Brakes on Aging
The idea of the Fountain of Youth, has been around thousands of years, with writings on the subject going as far back as the 5th century or so. Throughout history, explorers have gone in search of it and some have even died trying. You, however, don’t have to. Instead, you can tap into one of the best anti-aging ‘fountains’ out there and doesn’t require any travel at all. Best of all, it’s actually inside you – and it’s called HGH, or Human Growth Hormone, your natural, internal “fountain of youth.”
Apr 4, 2022 · Healthy Aging6 Ways Manage Your mTOR – and Show Aging the Door
Though there are quite a few ways to go about it what you may not know is that how well (or poorly) you age has a lot to do with mTOR, an under-the-radar body system that helps guide the aging process. Here’s a topline on how manage it, put it to work for you when needed, and tame it when you don’t.
Mar 25, 2022 · Healthy AgingInflammation and Genetics: What You Need To Know To Balance Your Immune System
Inflammation seems to underlie all sickness, linked to everything from depression and Alzheimer’s to gastrointestinal disorders and heart disease, but the term “inflammation” is very broad and sometimes misunderstood. Genetics plays a major role.
Mar 18, 2022 · Healthy AgingFAQ's on Protein Sources for Aging Well
When changing your personal food regimen shoot for a baseline of healthy food and protein habits geared towards aging well.
Feb 18, 2022 · Healthy AgingHow NMN Helps You Age Better
To age better, replenishing our cells' energy and sustaining our cellular health becomes crucial. Here is a way to do so: Nicotinamide mononucleotide(NMN).
Jan 3, 2022 · Healthy Aging5 Easy and Essential Ways to Stop Your Aging Clock
Looking for the fountain of youth? There are several every-day habits and behaviors you can do, starting now, that can slow down aging at the most basic cellular level. They don’t cost much, or in most cases, anything, and they can, and should, last a lifetime -- in other words, a lot longer than ‘miracle’ potions or jars of skin cream. While absolute lifespan, for instance whether your grandmother lived to 85 or 95, is very much influenced by genetics, your ‘healthspan’ – how long you live well, is very much up to you.
Nov 15, 2021 · Healthy Aging7 Ways Tracking Your Heart Rate Variability Can Save Your Health
One often overlooked but extremely helpful health marker I encourage everyone to track is their heart rate variability or (HRV). Learning more about your HRV can give you a better picture of your cardiovascular fitness and your over-all resilience, as well as helping to steer you toward more health-supportive daily behaviors and lifestyle tweaks. Think of HRV as a sort of on-demand monitoring and feedback system for doing stuff that keeps you well.
Oct 29, 2021 · Healthy AgingWhat Can You Learn From a 3X4 Genetic Test? A Lot
When you take a genetic test, it looks at a selection of genes that work together to provide you with a blueprint for how your own body functions. Here are the major areas where genetic testing can give you insight into your body's functionality, and where you can make better diet and lifestyle choices that will be more optimized for you.
Oct 25, 2021 · Healthy AgingWhy Genetic Testing is About Much More Than Just Your Ancestry
Here are some reasons why health and wellness genetic testing is a powerful tool that provides insights into how your unique body functions.
Sep 10, 2021 · Healthy AgingWhat Is Precision Personalized Medicine?
Precision personalized medicine is all about developing a plan of care to maintain optimal health and performance while minimizing the risk of illness, and it’s catered to the unique goals and needs of each individual person.
Aug 9, 2021 · Healthy Aging20 No-Brainer, Do-Every-Day Tips for Maximum Immunity Against COVID-19 and the Delta Variant
As much as we were all hoping to have COVID-19 on the run by now, it is still very much with us, with the Delta variant currently taking center stage. As the virus grinds on, continuing to follow CDC guidance and local mandates, getting the shot, masking, hand-washing and social distancing are all a big part of the ongoing battle. What else can you do to keep this unprecedented menace at bay? Do everything possible to support your immunity and remember, you’ve got a tremendous amount of control over it.
Jul 23, 2021 · Healthy AgingMen’s Health: Three Tests That Could Save Your Life
If you’re relying on the basic tests for men's health – the ones that you get at your annual physical, you may not be seeing the whole picture. Many diseases won’t be caught, much less prevented, by the American Medical Associations’s standard of care testing.
Apr 5, 2021 · Healthy AgingProtect Your Heart, Brain and Life with Sulforaphane
If I had to pick a ‘best of’ group for your body, tying for first place with leafy greens would be cruciferous vegetables, those slightly sulfuric-scented veggies from the brassica family. They’re versatile, tasty, fairly easy to grow and most importantly, they’re nutritional superstars, rich in a very powerful sulphur-based nutrient compound, known as sulforaphane or SFN, whose benefits can push your health in a very positive direction and could even help save your life.
Mar 8, 2021 · Healthy Aging6 Ways Cold Exposure Helps Slow – and Even Reverse – Your Aging Roll
If you want to live well longer, the classics of good sleep, good food, plenty of movement and relaxation are absolutely foundational. Building on that solid base, you can get a little more creative with this powerful anti-aging, vitality-enhancing health hack, cold exposure, incorporating brief periods of exposure to cold temperatures into your daily routine. Why? In simplest terms, it may help make you one of the physiologically youngest people you know!
Dec 11, 2020 · Healthy AgingNew Book, The Immunity Fix, Provides Strategies to Support the Immune System
2020 has put a spotlight on immune health. With the spread of COVID-19, we are taxing the health systems at an alarmingly high rate. We have shown just how sick our population is and the need for an overhaul of our diets and nutrient statuses. The positive news is you are not powerless.
Dec 4, 2020 · Healthy AgingThe Most Important Thing To Know About Cholesterol
There’s enough misinformation about cholesterol to fill a book-- which is exactly what cardiologist Steven Sinatra, MD and I did in our recent, updated and expanded edition of “The Great Cholesterol Myth”. One of the book’s most important take-home points -- and there are many you should know about-- is the difference between “cholesterol” and “lipoprotein."