Believe it or not I told myself you are eligible to sign up for Medicare this month. Ok I’ve known that this time was coming and I have done some planning in anticipation but that doesn’t make it real until you actually do it. So today I went on the Social Security Administration’s website, http://ssa.gov and completed an application. It was quite painless and took a mere 10 minutes, while this is the first step Read more…
Sunlight has some amazing health benefits and you should take advantage even in the winter months and anytime you can spend some time outside you should charge your batters by doing so. Ultraviolet radiation (UV) emitted by the sun can be harmful if you receive too much but in moderation sunlight has many health benefits. When natural sunlight hits your skin the body produces vitamin D. How much vitamin D is dependent upon a number Read more…
Growing older is a fact of life, but the steep decline in the quality of life doesn’t have to be part of the aging process. In my forties I began to notice differences in how my body would respond to challenges and not in a good way. Soreness that would last for days became commonplace. Being more tired or tired all the time became the norm rather than the unexpected. Knees, hands and elbows ached Read more…
Importantly, overtraining for a marathon, or jumping into too much training right away, can cause a host of problems — from joint pain that comes from running with bad form to stress fractures from pushing too hard too fast. However, this new study suggests that following a sensible, typical training plan appears to come with serious heart benefits. At the European Cardiology Society meeting Anish Bhuva, the study’s first author, explained that these effects on the heart can be attributed Read more…
Ageing is inevitable and is influenced by many things – but keeping active can slow aging and increase life expectancy. Evidence showsthat ageing alone is not a cause of major problems until you are in your mid-90s. And strength, power and muscle mass can be increased, even at this advanced age. So here are my top exercise tips for people in their 60s and older, at different levels of fitness. For Lifetime Fitness Fanatics If you fall into Read more…
Could Decreasing Inflammation Be the Cure for Everything? Managing your body’s immune response is key to diseases of aging “Low-grade inflammation.” It hardly sounds serious at all. An inconvenience, perhaps, like maybe a mild fever or a creaky joint. In the lexicon of aging and disease, there are far more worrisome words: cancer, heart disease, dementia, diabetes. But researchers have suspected for years that all of these health issues, and more, have at their heart Read more…
By Emily Laber-Warren Oct. 17, 2019Updated 7:04 a.m. ET Not long ago, Stephanie Heller, a New Jersey realtor, was leaving her gym after a workout when she noticed a woman in the parking lot struggling to bend down. “I don’t know if she dropped something and had to pick it up, or if her shoe was untied,” Ms. Heller said, but she eagerly bounded over to help. The woman blamed old age for her incapacity, explaining that Read more…
Scientists have found a new benefit of drinking tea for the brain This finding adds to an already extensive list of health benefits attributed to the drink. Whether served hot, cold, sweet, or bitter, tea is a ubiquitous drink worldwide that has held its own against the recent uprising of coffee culture as well. And now a comprehensive brain study has found that long-term tea drinkers may also enjoy added cognitive benefits from the drink. Read more…
If You Can Walk This Far In 2 Minutes, Scientists Say You’re Much Smarter Than Average (and Your Brain Is Actually Built a Little Differently) Entrepreneurs face considerable mental and emotional challenges, making decisions every day that will hopefully pay off for years to come. So you probably know that exercise helps you perform better under stress. That exercising at moderate intensity for twenty minutes elevates your mood for up to 12 hours. That exercise Read more…
A small clinical study in California has suggested for the first time that it might be possible to reverse the body’s epigenetic clock, which measures a person’s biological age. For one year, nine healthy volunteers took a cocktail of three common drugs — growth hormone and two diabetes medications — and on average shed 2.5 years of their biological ages, measured by analysing marks on a person’s genomes. The participants’ immune systems also showed signs Read more…