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January 13, 2020 References: Building Bone Vitality, Osteoporosis International, J Zoo Wild Med, Nature, AZCentral, Jehle J Clin Endo Meta, Moseley J Bone Min Res., The unspoken scourge of advanced western civilization is osteoporosis. It leads to broken bones and broken lives. Break a hip and you are not going to escape a nursing home over 30% of the time. But this… Continue reading Cure Your Osteoporosis for 15 Cents a Day

January 06, 2020 References: US and News and World Report, DASH Diet, Flexitarian Diet, Keto Diet, Ornish Diet, Fast Mimicking Diet, It’s the new year and you are 10 pounds overweight, or worse? Want a ranking of the diets from top to bottom? Good old US News and World Report does it for you. And they get it mostly right, but not quite.… Continue reading Rank the Diets for 2020!

December 30, 2019 References: NEJM, Harvard Health Blog, Newsweek, CNN, Longo, Nutritional Metabolism, Annual Review of Nutrition, We have tons of evidence that fasting works well on longevity in animals. There is proof that reducing calories 30% makes chimpanzees live much longer. Rats having their calories compacted into short time periods lose weight, while those same calories spread out make for weight… Continue reading Intermittent Fasting Can Help You Live Longer!

December 23, 2019 Increased Body Fat Makes the Brain Shrink Faster References: Newsweek, Aging Research Reviews, Cell Metabolism, Frontiers in Neurology, Nature Medicine, Frontiers in Physiology, There is beginning to be a robust literature that goes as follows, your brain shrinks as your waistline gets bigger. Simple. Plain. Awful. This week’s study is from England looking at 4,431 adults over 6… Continue reading Increased Body Fat Makes the Brain Shrink Faster

December 16, 2019 References: Science Daily, NEJM, ScienceNews, Science Direct, Brain, New York Times, You can’t see it. You may not be able to smell it. But those tiny particles put out by fires, factories, busses are there in the air. The NEJM study quoted here is a massive study looking at 652 cities over 30 years. On average, an increase in 10… Continue reading Air Pollution Kills, Rapidly and Surely

December 09, 2019 References: Resilient by Rick Hanson, Greater Good Magazine, Open Journal of Social Sciences, Frontiers in Psychology, Resiliency, one of the strongest correlates of longer, happier living is a vital component of thriving 100-year-olds. Rick Hanson lists 12 features of resiliency but mindfulness comes up first. He defines mindfulness as being fully in the present and not distracted or… Continue reading Building Resiliency with Mindfulness

November 25, 2019 References: Lamond, Curr Geront Ger Res., J. Psychiatric Research, Philip Chard, What’s resiliency? The most straightforward definition is that resilience connotes the ability to adapt positively to adversity. Folks who are 100 years old have it. If you are 60, or 50 or 40, and you want to live to be 100, it might just serve you well… Continue reading Building Resiliency: Don’t Visit Pity City

November 18, 2019 References: Biomedical Research, Science Daily, Nature Communications, Diabetes Poster Presentation 2017, Medical News Today, Time Magazine, Jr Sci Food Ag, PLosOne, Are artificial sweeteners safe for you? What effect do they have on weight? How do I sort all this out? The first and foremost point to understand is that insulin is not, repeat NOT your blood sugar controlling hormone. It… Continue reading Insulin release and artificial sweeteners

November 11, 2019 References: Appl Phys Nutr Met., Am Jr Phys Heart Phys,Inter Jour Mol Med., Cosmic Heart, Human Heart, This is so sobering! You just can’t sit for 3 hours at a time. It’s a big, fat problem. It makes “endothelial dysfunction” in the walls of your arteries. The language that is used sounds like this: “sustained… Continue reading Prolonged Sitting Isn’t Helped by Fish Oil, But Exercise, Fidgeting, and Standing Does Help

November 04, 2019 References: New York Times, Kim Kardiashian, Dr Mercola, Medical Medium’s Celery Juice, Natural Medicine Journal, Advances in Regenerative Biology, US Weekly, Dirty Dozen Vegetables, Ok, everyone is doing it! You can’t miss Kim Kardashian no matter where you hide, so when she touts celery juice, you hear about it. US Weekly will tell you all the stars snarfing it down. If you want to… Continue reading Celery Juice – Miracle or Sham?