Category: Forever Young
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Intermittent Fasting: Two Month Follow-Up
A recent small study asked the question “Is early time-restricted eating (TRE) more effective than eating over a period of 12 or more hours for losing weight and body fat?” In a randomized clinical weight-loss trial involving 90 adults with obesity, early time-restricted eating was more effective for losing weight (down 14 pounds on average…
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Salt: Two Sides Of The Coin
Two separate studies showed that 1) Adding salt to your prepared food is bad for you. 2) Replacing salt with a salt substitute is good for you. Instead of looking at total salt intake—which for years has been linked to high blood pressure (and high blood pressure is one of the top five preventable conditions…
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How Much Strength Training Is Optimal For Longevity?
Spending as little as half an hour each week on strength building exercises is linked to a lower risk of premature death. Researchers have been studying the effects of strength training for more than 40 years and have identified multiple ways it can benefit older adults, including maintaining muscle mass, improving mobility, and increasing the…
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Repigmentation Of Gray Hair Documented
If you read my earlier post, you may already have known that it is possible for gray hair to return to its original color. A recent article in the prestigious New England Journal of Medicine documented a case where treatment with an unrelated medication apparently induced re-pigmentation of gray hair in a middle-aged man. According…
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The Impact Of Increased “Cognitive Reserve”
An important concept that is crucial to the understanding of cognitive health is known as “cognitive reserve” (CR). You can think of cognitive reserve as your brain’s ability to improvise and find alternate ways of getting a job done. Your brain can change the way it operates and thus make added resources available to cope with…
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Intermittent Fasting: One Month Follow-Up—The Early Results
Many of you might have read my post from a month ago titled “Have You Heard About The Benefits Of Intermittent Fasting?” If you read to the end, you would have seen that it wasn’t just academic—I planned to put it into practice myself. As I stated: “Today I started with a ten-hour eating window…
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If A Once-A-Week Pill Could Extend Your Life By 7+ Years, Would You Take It?
The drug rapamycin was discovered in the soil of Easter Island in the 1960s. According to one researcher, the overwhelming evidence suggests that rapamycin is a universal anti-aging drug—that is, it extends lifespan in all tested models from yeast to mammals, suppresses cell senescence (aging) and delays the onset of age-related diseases. Rapamycin, an inhibitor…
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What Is “Negligible Senescence”—And Can We Achieve It?
Some animals, like tortoises and lobsters, never grow old, and learning their secrets could let humans live as long as they want. For most animals, there are three basic ways they can die: disease, injury, or old age, which is also called senescence. But a select few species are seemingly immune from aging itself, a…
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The Anti-Aging Effects Of HGH—And Can You Produce More Naturally
We make less human growth hormone (HGH) as we get older, resulting in many aging symptoms: loss of muscle tone, increased weight gain, loss of stamina, hair loss and graying, and many diseases linked to aging. If we can increase HGH, can we reverse many of the signs of aging? Growth hormone fuels childhood growth…
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Can The Air We Breathe Shorten Our Lifespan?
Scientific research has clearly established that particle pollution and ozone are a threat to human health at every stage of life, increasing the risk of premature birth, causing or worsening lung and heart disease, and shortening lives. One new study by the AQLI finds that particulate air pollution takes 2.2 years off global average life expectancy,…