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Optimism & Living Longer: Does A Shift In Your Attitude Also Raise Your Altitude?

Filed Under: Aging, Highlights

Optimism & Living Longer: Does A Shift In Your Attitude Also Raise Your Altitude?
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Optimism & Increased-Longevity. Does The Mindset Control Matter?:
The more Science progresses, the weirder it seems to get.

And conversely, it often tends to confirm many adages from a long time ago.

Like the one by Hippocrates about food being medicine and it being a better idea to get your vitamins and minerals there.

Well another old adage is one about being young at heart and never acting your age.

And if the work by BU, Harvard and a few others is right, a positive mindset might actually make the difference between a long life and a shorter one…

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MCTs For Alzheimer’s & Mild Cognitive Impairment: Tired Brain Cells Get A Snake-Oil-Free Lifeline

Filed Under: Aging

MCTs For Alzheimer’s & Mild Cognitive Impairment: Tired Brain Cells Get A Snake-Oil-Free Lifeline
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MCTs For Alzheimer’s & MCI: A Tiny Keto Lifeline For Tired Brain Cells:
I think we can all agree that despite what we see in the supermarket checkout-lines,

Fad Diets are bullshit.

As a matter-of-fact, most diets are bullshit.

What matters is getting the right number and type of calories, even if your count is iffy.

That and regular Cardio exercise, for about 100 reasons.

But then, all-of-a-sudden, Sherbrooke U.’s Center On Aging comes along and kicks the crap out of that theory, in a very specific way…

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Sense Of Purpose And Longevity: You Might Live Longer If You Can Figure Out A Really Good “Why”

Filed Under: Aging, Highlights

Sense Of Purpose And Longevity: You Might Live Longer If You Can Figure Out A Really Good “Why”
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Sense Of Purpose & Living Longer. “Why?” Is A Very Important Question:
When most people think about health, the thoughts that come to mind are usually, “Eat Right & Exercise”.

And if they think about brain/mental health, the ideas that come up are: Anxiety and Anti-Depressants.

There’s nothing wrong with that, because those are big-ticket items in our culture.

But the Yoga & Meditation crowd have subconsciously-circled a much deeper issue.

And scientists from the University of Michigan are finding research-backed evidence that getting the important stuff about your mind right eventually helps your body…

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Starting Exercise In Middle Age: It Really Is Never Too Late To Make A Positive Change

Filed Under: Aging

Starting Exercise In Middle Age: It Really Is Never Too Late To Make A Positive Change
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Starting Exercise In Middle Age. Late Is Better Than Never:
Many of us do what we can to Get healthy.

And then after that, comes the part about Staying healthy.

For example, getting down to a good weight is great for avoiding complications.

But Exercise is even better.

But as scientists study things we thought we knew about, they’re finding-out more things we didn’t.

This is especially-true for the NCI work that found the old saying “Use it or lose it.” might actually be true…

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Japanese Herb May Slow Down Aging: I Guess The Samurai Were Immortal After-All

Filed Under: Aging

Japanese Herb May Slow Down Aging: I Guess The Samurai Were Immortal After-All
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Japanese Herb Ashitaba May Slow Down Aging, Ninjas, & Other Problems:
So since the beginning of time, people have been trying to live longer & better.

Many quests including those for Health have been based on some kind of “Holy Grail”.

Repair the damage, cure the big diseases, then live to 100 and beyond.

But what if you’re not an immortal gorgeous Corsican vampire like our pal Yazemeenah Rossi?

Well, SCIENCE! by an Austrian team just found out some folk herbal medicine may be the next step in that quest…

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Repairing Your Brain Cells: Discoveries About Brain-Aging Also Come With A Fix!

Filed Under: Aging

Repairing Your Brain Cells: Discoveries About Brain-Aging Also Come With A Fix!
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Repairing Brain Cells As They Age, New Discovery, New Hope:
So a lot of us worry about losing our abilities, or marbles, as time goes on.

We’d all like to stay healthy as we do age, reflected in that new-ish term, “Healthspan”.

Which flies in the face of the old ideas that say there’s not much you can do.

Especially for the most important part of you, Your Brain.

Well some researchers from California and Canada present a Bad News, Good News scenario in their new work,

And if they’re right, may just prove the old ideas about brain-aging almost completely wrong…

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Reversing Wrinkles: Smoothing Out Your Skin Could Soon Be A 1-Pill Reality With Help From Babies

Filed Under: Aging

Reversing Wrinkles: Smoothing Out Your Skin Could Soon Be A 1-Pill Reality With Help From Babies
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Wrinkles Could Be Removed With Accidental New Discovery:
So one of the problems people have as they get older, is that as much and as many ways they try to improve themselves,

Sometimes, their outside appearance doesn’t catch-up with how they feel inside.

Even though for many self-improvers and age-defiers the idea that “Age Is Just A Number” absolutely-applies.

Well, some researchers at UCSD have found the next step in the journey to making your outside look as good as your inside…

Note Please: The proposed-fix does not involve installing babies on your face.

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Intermittent Fasting And Obesity: Time-Restricted Eating Makes You A Lean, Mean, Circadian Machine

Filed Under: Aging, Highlights

Intermittent Fasting And Obesity: Time-Restricted Eating Makes You A Lean, Mean, Circadian Machine
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Intermittent-Fasting’s Sneak-Attack On Obesity & Metabolic-Illness:
So losing-weight is a very tough thing, and we seem destined to get fat.

Diets to get a movie-star body are just plain crazy,

Add-on the uncertainty introduced by new Fad Diets that seem to crop-up about every 3 years,

And you could understand how the average person could end-up discouraged, confused; and even-worse, looking nothing like Ryan Reynolds.

But researchers at the Salk Institute have just come-up with another amazing confirmation to the proof in a recent diet trend…

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