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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."
Nov 23, 2020 · Healthy Aging6 Ways to Age Well by Tending Your Spirit
When most of us think of ‘spirit’ or ‘spirituality,’ things like a moral code, religious services or houses of worship come to mind. And that’s fine. But, tending to your spirit doesn’t necessarily require a heavenly choir or a donation box. Spirituality can be thought of in broader, less religious terms and still help guide you through tough times, supporting your emotional health.
Nov 9, 2020 · Healthy Aging9 Ways Tending Your Telomeres Keep You Younger Longer
Spot those first laugh lines across your forehead and your first thought likely is, make it stop! While there’s no sure-fire way to stop aging – both visible and not – it is possible to slow the process down quite a bit, if you make the effort to protect the length of your telomeres.
Nov 2, 2020 · Healthy Aging3 Ways Others Help Keep You Younger Longer
When we think about how we can put the brakes on aging, what’s usually top of mind is how well we take care of our bodies with food, movement, exercise, rest -- the physical essentials. And that’s a good thing. But let’s not forget there is another extremely important element that’s often given short shrift, the emotional one.
Oct 26, 2020 · Healthy AgingMove It, Don’t Lose It: How Staying Active Slows Aging
While deepening laugh lines on the outside are a give-away, it’s often the slow and not-always-visible chipping away of muscle mass, power, strength, and endurance which are the more significant signs of time marching on. That and lot of aches and pains. As these rather humbling physiological hiccups begin to add up, the question becomes, how to slow the slide – or prevent it altogether? The answer: staying physically active!
Oct 19, 2020 · Healthy Aging4 Ways mTOR Influences How Well You Age
Aging – we’re all doing it, every second of every day. But, how well we do it – ideally with health, vitality and great-looking skin – is another question entirely. The good news is that many studies show that it’s never too late to embrace new habits and start enjoying the health benefits. In other words, it’s still possible to put the brakes on aging!
Oct 12, 2020 · Healthy Aging4 Youth-Preserving Behaviors to Embrace Now
Aging is inevitable, but doing it badly is most definitely not – and aging well is far more under your control that you may realize, so now’s the time to work on embracing several of my favorite, super-supportive health behaviors. They’ll help you extend both lifespan and “healthspan,” allowing you to sidestep many of the health problems that can make aging so difficult.
Aug 28, 2020 · Healthy AgingHow to Strengthen Your Bones
We often forget about our skeletons, but they are essential to multiple aspects of our health.
Jun 8, 2020 · Healthy Aging9 Ways To Embrace Optimism – And Why You Must!
Some people are born optimistic, while others choose it, learn to embrace it, or, resist it altogether. But in the middle of a pandemic, maintaining optimism may require more effort, even for those who don’t usually struggle.
Mar 4, 2020 · Healthy Aging30 Ways to Boost Immunity Right Now
Health crises of any kind be they local, national or, like the current coronavirus, global in scale, are a wake-up call for all of us. As one of my patients recently said, “There’s nothing like a potential pandemic to make you think about upping your immunity.” Dark humor aside, she makes a good point: boosting immunity needs to become a top priority.
Feb 24, 2020 · Healthy AgingHow Your Daily Lifestyle Choices Are Affecting Your Genetics
Most of us were raised to believe that the genes we were born with are our destiny, and that the diseases that “run in the family” are most likely coming for us too. I myself have wrestled with this demon, as I have a strong family history of heart disease and I, now...