Healthy Aging News
Are You Aging Faster than You Think
In this month’s (June 2016) Men’s Journal, an article by Joe Hooper explains in layman’s terms the importance of knowing the physiological age of your major organ systems. Each of the three men, age 39, 59, and 82, [...]
New Understanding of the Importance of Sleep
This fascinating research into the brain’s “glymphatic system,” which functions as the house cleaner of the brain, is beginning to provide a deeper mechanistic understanding of why 7-9 hours of good quality sleep is so important [...]
Second TA-65 Cohort study paper published online
The second paper describing the effects of TA-65 and a comprehensive health maintenance program has been published online on pubmed. In it we demonstrated that the program reduced total and LDL cholesterol, fasting glucose and insulin, [...]
How to prevent holiday weight gain
A little holiday weight gain may not seem too bad, if you plan to lose the extra pounds after New Year’s. In reality, most Americans never lose the weight they gain during the winter holiday season. [...]
Danish Study Shows HRT Cuts Heart Disease by 50% without Cancer Risk
Just a week after being disappointed by the KEEPS trial report, I am delighted by a new Danish study demonstrating very positive results for recently menopausal women on long term HRT. The study appeared in the [...]
Monkeys on Monk Diets Don’t Live Longer
Will you live longer if you stick to a diet that severely restricts your calorie intake? Some longevity researchers have been working on that theory since the 1980s, hoping the answer is yes. But the largest [...]
Latest HRT Study Needs a Critical Eye
Here’s the latest entry in the decade-long debate over the benefits and risks of hormone replacement therapy in post-menopausal women: A report from Boston that says women who take hormones for more than 10 years have [...]
Stanford Opens New Front on Immune Aging
There’s probably no aging process more intricate than how our immune systems gradually make our bodies more defenseless. That’s what makes it one of the most fascinating and important frontiers of research in the world of [...]
The Myth Decade: Hormones, Breast Cancer and WHI
Do hormones cause breast cancer? Over the past decade, this is by far the most common question I’ve heard from women trying to decide whether to take hormone replacements to reduce the symptoms of menopause and [...]
