Phytonutrients: Paint your plate with the colors of the rainbow
Did you know that adding color to your meals will help you live a longer, healthier life? Colorful fruits and vegetables can paint a beautiful picture of health because they contain phytonutrients, compounds that give plants their rich colors as well as their distinctive tastes and aromas. Phytonutrients also strengthen a plant’s immune system. They protect the plant from threats in their natural environment such as disease and excessive sun.
When humans eat plant foods, phytonutrients protect us from chronic diseases. Phytonutrients have potent anti-cancer and anti-heart disease effects. And epidemiological research sug...
Source: Harvard Health Blog - April 25, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Katherine D. McManus, MS, RD, LDN Tags: Health Healthy Eating Source Type: blogs
Natural Ways to Relieve IT Band Syndrome
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Your endorphins are up. Your stride is smooth. You glide through the park with peaceful solitude, having the track to yourself for once.
Then bang! Your foot hits the pavement and you buckle your knee in pain. When you try to straighten your leg, you feel a click so strong that you can almost hear it.
You have just developed Iliotibial Band (IT Band) Syndrome, one of the two types of “runner’s knee,” the most c...
Source: PickTheBrain | Motivation and Self Improvement - January 17, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: smithwillas Tags: health and fitness IT Band Syndrome Pain management Source Type: blogs
Fight Aging! Newsletter, December 24th 2018
In conclusion, we found a gradient of increasing blood pressure with higher levels of BMI. The fact that this gradient is present even in the fully adjusted analyses suggests that BMI may cause a direct effect on blood pressure, independent of other clinical risk factors.
PRRX1 as a Possible Point of Control for Remyelination
https://www.fightaging.org/archives/2018/12/prrx1-as-a-possible-point-of-control-for-remyelination/
Researchers here outline what is possibly a new point of intervention in the processes that maintain the myelin sheath that wraps nerves. This sheath is vital to the correct operati...
Source: Fight Aging! - December 23, 2018 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Newsletters Source Type: blogs
Engineers, Particularly Software Engineers, Have Long Supported SENS Rejuvenation Research
The SENS approach to the treatment of aging is explicitly engineering, in the sense that engineering is the application of science to produce useful technology in absence of full knowledge of the systems influenced. It is right there in the name: Strategies for Engineered Negligible Senescence. In fact all medicine is engineering, as no-one yet has access to the full map of cellular biology that would allow for complete knowledge of how any particular therapy actually functions. SENS is merely a particularly obvious example, perhaps because of the great divide that exists in the aging research community.
Firstly, th...
Source: Fight Aging! - December 20, 2018 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Activism, Advocacy and Education Source Type: blogs
3 Easy Tips to a Good Night Sleep
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Good night sleep. The best thing in the world (Second to a nice Cheeseburger on a rainy morning).
According to a 2010 survey, 30 percent of Australians reported experiencing a severe sleeping disorder. Whereas in America, the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) says that one of every four Americans reports not getting enough night sleep. This corresponds with another survey saying that around 60 million Americans...
Source: PickTheBrain | Motivation and Self Improvement - November 8, 2018 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Marwan Jamal Tags: featured health and fitness self improvement health benefits of sleep how to get a good sleep pickthebrain Source Type: blogs
5 Beverages That Can Boost Your Health and Help Cure Arthritis and Joint Pain
Conclusion
Healthy, natural beverages made of fruits, vegetables, spices, and oils prevent cancer, obesity, high blood pressure and diabetes. They have anti-inflammatory properties and can even reduce joint pain and other arthritis symptoms.
In addition to healthy beverages, you should also use a supplement Flexoplex, an excellent, natural product that will provide you with the best possible support for your knees, shoulders, and sore hips.
The best thing about healthy, homemade beverages is that they can be made easily and at the convenience of your own home. They are full of nutrients that are good for your health and jo...
Source: PickTheBrain | Motivation and Self Improvement - May 9, 2018 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Katleen Brown Tags: health and fitness Source Type: blogs
Digestive enzyme supplements for heartburn?
My love affair with spicy food came to a sad end a few years ago. Age — and I’m guessing too many jalapenos — have left me prone to heartburn if I eat meals with a fiery flare. My doctor says there’s no underlying condition causing the problem, and advises me to avoid the foods that seem to trigger symptoms. But that’s tricky sometimes.
So I was particularly interested when a friend suggested that an over-the-counter (OTC) digestive enzyme supplement might help. I learned pretty quickly that there are lots of ads for the pills and powders. It’s a booming business, with sales for OTC digestive enzymes of all kin...
Source: Harvard Health Blog - April 13, 2018 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Heidi Godman Tags: Complementary and alternative medicine Digestive Disorders Health Source Type: blogs
Scientific Studies Show How Nutrition Influences Our Creativity
In conclusion, our creative thinking is affected by a number of external elements, but the food we eat is such an important part of it. Choosing a diet with ingredients that are gradually processed by our body are crucial to staying productive. At the same time, our diet will also affect mental energy and positivity, and the combination of these factors will determine our levels of creativity.
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Source: PickTheBrain | Motivation and Self Improvement - February 21, 2018 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Maria Onzain Tags: featured productivity tips self improvement creativity improve well-being nutrition nutrition and creativity nutrition and mental health pickthebrain Source Type: blogs
Trial By Error: QMUL and FOI; Nature and Cochrane; the Pineapple Fund
By David Tuller, DrPH Queen Mary University of London seems to have devised a fail-safe method of avoiding having to comply with more PACE-related freedom-of-information requests—just declare no one is around who can deal with it. Earlier this month, the U.K. Information Commissioner’s Office issued a decision in an appeal of QMUL’s rejection of a […] (Source: virology blog)
Source: virology blog - February 13, 2018 Category: Virology Authors: David Tuller Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: blogs
Fight Aging! Newsletter, February 5th 2018
In this study, we tested the hypothesis that Gbp1 plays a role in regulating immunometabolism and senescence of macrophages. We found that Gbp1 was mainly expressed in macrophages, but not adipocytes in response to IFNγ/LPS stimulation; Gbp1 expression was significantly decreased in inguinal white adipose tissue (iWAT) of high-fat diet (HFD)-fed and aged mice. We also observed that downregulation of Gbp1 in macrophages resulted in M1 polarization and impairment of mitochondrial respiratory function possibly via disrupting mitophagy activity. Moreover, macrophages with downregulated Gbp1 displayed dampened glycolysis and e...
Source: Fight Aging! - February 4, 2018 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Newsletters Source Type: blogs
The Pineapple Fund Donates Millions to the Organ Preservation Alliance and Methuselah Foundation
The anonymous principal of the Pineapple Fund is a long-term holder of bitcoins, one of a number of people who have achieved considerable wealth in this way. Unlike most of the others, this individual holds the - eminently sensible - viewpoint that, after a certain point, the only real use for wealth is to craft a better world. Since the human condition, (Source: Fight Aging!)
Source: Fight Aging! - January 29, 2018 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Activism, Advocacy and Education Source Type: blogs
Fight Aging! Newsletter, January 22nd 2018
In conclusion, death is a natural part of human existence, but human progress is essentially a story of overcoming undesirable natural limits. In the near future, technological progress might make it possible to stop natural biological death. Should humankind embrace such technology? Yes: Even though such technology would not be without risks, the risks are almost certainly manageable. The benefits of ending natural death, on the other hand, are immense. Death is an obstacle that is slowing down human progress. If we remove that obstacle, humankind could increase the speed of both its moral and its epistemic progress.
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Source: Fight Aging! - January 21, 2018 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Newsletters Source Type: blogs
SENS Research Foundation Raises $5 Million, Largely in Cryptocurrency Donations
I'm pleased to note that the 2017 year end SENS Research Foundation fundraiser raised far more than anyone thought was likely - more than $5 million, in fact. This was due to the generosity of a number of high net worth individuals who committed sizable philanthropic donations from their cryptocurrency holdings. These are exciting times for the treatment of aging as a medical condition! Many thanks are due to those people, and to everyone else who supported the continued work of the SENS Research Foundation staff and associated scientific groups to reverse aging through damage repair. We stand upon the verge of a truly mas...
Source: Fight Aging! - January 17, 2018 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Activism, Advocacy and Education Source Type: blogs
Fight Aging! Newsletter, January 1st 2018
Discussion of advocacy for the cause is a usual feature of our community, as we try things and attempt to make progress in persuading the world that rejuvenation research is plausible, practical, and necessary. There are more people engaged in advocacy now than at any time in the past decade, and so discussions of strategy come up often. New ventures kicked off in 2017 include the Geroscience online magazine, and among the existing ventures the LEAF / Lifespan.io volunteers seem to be hitting their stride. The mainstream media continues to be as much a hindrance as a help, and where it is a help you will usually find Aubre...
Source: Fight Aging! - December 31, 2017 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Newsletters Source Type: blogs
A Look Back at the Science of Longevity and Advocacy for Rejuvenation in 2017
Discussion of advocacy for the cause is a usual feature of our community, as we try things and attempt to make progress in persuading the world that rejuvenation research is plausible, practical, and necessary. There are more people engaged in advocacy now than at any time in the past decade, and so discussions of strategy come up often. New ventures kicked off in 2017 include the Geroscience online magazine, and among the existing ventures the LEAF / Lifespan.io volunteers seem to be hitting their stride. The mainstream media continues to be as much a hindrance as a help, and where it is a help you will usually find Aubre...
Source: Fight Aging! - December 29, 2017 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Of Interest Source Type: blogs
