March 10, 2010 – 12:04 pm
This was a new way of thinking about fat in the body, for me. A review suggests that increasing fat storage helps protect against metabolic syndrome. Most researchers and physicians will tell you that obesity, itself, is a major part of the cause of metabolic syndrome.
What is metabolic syndrome?
Metabolic syndrome, also called syndrome [...]
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Also posted in Diabetes, Heart, Weight
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Tagged adipose, age-related diseases, ageing, Aging, anti-ageing, anti-aging, belly fat, cardiovascular disease, Diabetes, fat, fat storage, heart disease, insulin resistance, metabolic syndrome, obesity, pancreas
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Research suggests that if we are not getting sufficient sleep, it may be increase the decline of both neurological and muscular functions and reduce our ability to handle oxidative stress. The net result of this is speeding the rate of many aging processes.
Most animals, including humans, have an internal clock. This is called [...]
February 22, 2010 – 12:41 pm
Vitamin D has suddenly become the most popular vitamin in articles about nutrition and health. It is taking over from vitamin C.
With recent horror for the damage that sun can do, plus our increasingly indoor lives, many people are vitamin D deficient.
Vitamin D plays a major role in our immune systems, cancer, heart [...]
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Also posted in Aging
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Tagged age-related diseases, ageing, Aging, anti-ageing, anti-aging, cardiovascular disease, Diabetes, heart disease, telomere length, telomere shortening, type 2 diabetes, vitamin D
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February 15, 2010 – 12:13 pm
One thing that most of us want is a long healthy life. We want to age slowly, be healthy and keep our mental faculties, so we can have a long life with a good quality of life. One panacea would be a long life cocktail.
Unfortunately I am not referring to an alcoholic cocktail. [...]
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Tagged age-related diseases, ageing, Aging, anti-ageing, anti-aging, antioxidant, long life, mitochondrial function, movement, ROS, supplement, supplement cocktail
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February 10, 2010 – 10:58 am
Now there is evidence that some people may age faster than others, due to their genes.
Recently a post talked about how exercise may keep you younger. This post described research that suggested that those who exercise may have healthier cells. The post described how the ends of chromosomes (the strands of DNA that [...]
February 5, 2010 – 11:56 am
We all know that having lots of belly fat is bad. We are told that it increases the risk of cardiovascular disease, diabetes and a range of other health problems. But why is belly fat bad?
There are number of reasons but I will explain one of the major ones. This has to [...]
January 31, 2010 – 9:34 pm
We are frequently told that exercise is good for us. It reduces the risk of a range of diseases, such as heart disease and stroke.
What is often not clear is why it is good for us. How exactly does exercise help?
Here is one way that researchers have found that exercise helps with cardiovascular [...]
January 25, 2010 – 9:12 am
If you have high blood pressure, you have probably been told to cut down on your salt intake. Many, but not all, who have high blood pressure, have salt-sensitive hypertension.
With the increased consumption of processed foods and eating out, the amount of salt in the diet has increased dramatically. Take a look at [...]
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Also posted in Heart
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Tagged 3g salt, age-related diseases, atherosclerosis, Blood Pressure, cardiovascular disease, CHD, heart disease, high blood pressure, MI, Roman, salt, sodium, stroke
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January 22, 2010 – 6:00 pm
For many years it was thought that high iron levels were a good thing. Remember the huge amount of advertising for iron supplements particularly Geritol (see old ad below).
More recently it has been realized that high levels of iron and some other minerals, such as copper, may be bad for us, particularly as we [...]
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Also posted in Diabetes, Heart
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Tagged age-related diseases, ageing, Aging, Alzheimer’s disease, anti-aging, antioxidant, atherosclerosis, cardiovascular disease, copper, Diabetes, Geritol, high levels, iron, oxidation damage
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January 18, 2010 – 2:15 pm
How far would you go to slow or stop aging?
There is a recent (very longwinded) article in the NYT that discusses some people, all male, who are willing to go quite far.
These middle-aged men are doing more than just the exercising and eating right. They are injecting themselves hormones and growth factors such as [...]
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Also posted in Body, Life
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Tagged age-related diseases, ageing, Aging, anti-aging, Body, hCG, Health, human chorionic gonadotropin, human growth hormone, muscle mass, slow aging, testosterone
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