Over a lifetime, iron will accumulate in certain cells and tissues. Too much iron can accelerate cellular decay and tissue damage, eventually inflicting systspan-wide failure. Age-related iron overload is a known contributor to diseases like atherosclerosis, neurodegeneration, liver failure, and cancer.^1-3 The significant dangers posed...

Teenagers and young adults benefit from a high resting metabolic rate, which simply means that they burn more calories at rest than older adults. For those of us in the “older adult” group, wouldn’t it be nice if we could restore a more youthful resting...

Biotin is part of the B vitamin family. Like the rest of its mspanbers, it plays a key role in the body’s metabolic processes. Mainly known for the benefits it confers to nails, biotin is needed for so much more. Deficiencies may lead to many...

Could injecting blood from young, healthy adults into Alzheimer’s patients become a prescribed treatment sometime soon? Apparently, young mammalian blood contains compounds, specifically one called GDF11, that improve brain cell connections. These are the same connections that are destroyed by amyloid-beta deposits characteristic of Alzheimer’s...

A Treatment Thousands of Years Old

Today in most Western cultures acupuncture is considered a new alternative medicine. Actually, acupuncture is a medical treatment that is more than 5,000 years old. Very basically, acupuncture is the insertion of very fine needles, sometimes in conjunction with...

Although all of us experience worry from time to time, some people live full-time with chronic anxiety. In fact, at least 10% of the population suffers from some form of chronic anxiety, ranging from long-term generalized anxiety to full-blown panic attacks. While some of the...