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Anti-aging is NOT Anti-death: Understanding Aging Processes

Why we age

There is much confusion regarding anti-aging and anti-death - anti-death is actually extending life but not necessarily the quality of it. Aging is the processes by which an individual gradually weakens and loses functions.

Anti-aging seeks to understand the processes and use natural methods to intervene so that youthful characteristics are preserved. Exciting new discoveries are being made daily for controlling genetic agings and I will continue to report to you as information is available. Click to continue reading...

Female Hormone Therapy and Cataracts....What's Next?

 

Hormone replacement therapy (HRT) was pushed for decades by the conventional medicine establishment as being nothing sort of an insurance against aging along with its long list of remarkable "claimed" health benefits. I know, I fell into their spell and subjected my body to HRT after a complete hysterectomy at the young age of 30.

 

Somehow, even back then when we didn't know better, the thought of taking concoctions made from pregnant horses' urine combined with a toxic soup of chemicals, just didn't sound healthy. Soon I found out, as have millions of woman, that the side effects were devasting; weight gain, blood clots, mood swings, hair loss, vision changes, cravings for sugar and simple carbohydrates...wait a minute...weren't these the symptoms HRT was suppose to protect us woman from? Yup, it was all a huge lie and millions of us fell victims...Click to continue reading

Stimulating DNA Ability to Self-Repair Healthy Aging Part 3 of 3

I've discussed significant information about various new research and nutrients that have proven effective in our constant thirst to slow the aging processes. Vitamin C is, again, one of those nutrients that, until now, has not received the credit its due.

According to research conducted by Marcus Cooke (co-author) at the University of Leicester, UK, their team is encouraged because Vitamin C shows the definate ability of the DNA to repair itself after being damaged; as well as being protective through its strong antioxidant properties. Click to continue reading...

How We Age and How to Prevent it Prematurely Part 2 of 3

C...ing Why We Age

I don't know about you, but I'm beginning the best part of the rest of my life at age 62! We do not have to accept aging natural phenomenon as the "natural order of things". That said, we must keep some important facts in mind in order to truly understand why we age and why we age prematurely. We die because we get sick, and we get sick because our cells become old and/or die-off. Click to continue reading...

Anti-aging is NOT Anti-death: Understanding the Aging Processes....Part 1 of 3

Why we age

There is much confusion regarding anti-aging and anti-death, which is actually extending life but not necessarily the quality of it.

Aging is the processes by which an individual gradually weakens and loses functions.

Anti-aging seeks to understand the processes and use natural methods to intervene so that youthful characteristics are preserved. Exciting new discoveries are being made daily for controlling genetic agings and I will continue to report to you as information is available. Click to continue reading...

Baby-Boomers Re-invent Grand-parenting: The Youngest Older Generation Ever!

 

Being Thankful...for our grandchildren, that is!

When people hear I’m a grandparent of three they comment “you can’t possibly be” – but a proud grandparent I am. Likewise, are the over 75 million baby-boomers who are entering this amazingly rewarding right of passage and redefining their image about how a grandparent looks, acts, and thinks. Photo left is of my two handsome grandsons, Christian and Kaden, on Christian's first day of school 2009. Click to continue reading...

Your Brain...Nourish and Use It...or Lose It

With aging comes the reality that our brain chemistry can easily become unbalanced if it lacks proper nutrition, healthy stimulation, minerals and electrolytes – the body’s electrical transmitters. Click to continue reading...  

The Energy "Currency" of Your Body: How to Keep from Bouncing Metabolic Checks

After working with thousands of patients whose foremost complaint when seeking my counsel is, "I just don't have enough energy and I have terrible brain-fog," I began using and recommending what is referred to by my peers as "Currency for the Body." I like to describe the lack of energy and the exasperating lack of concentration as, "Your mind is writing checks your body can't cash." Click here to continue reading...