I hadn’t been to Las Vegas in probably 40 years, but the 2016 Anti-Aging conference had some compelling speakers, so there I went. Surprisingly, the changes were mostly good: less cigarette smoke walking through the casino and three restaurants in our hotel that made it easy to order gluten-free meals, with wild-caught salmon and grass-fed beef. The hotel gym had rowing machines!
You’ve tried everything. You’ve read through my sleep articles here and here and of course, here, and you’re still not sleeping well. This column is for you. Five insomnia fixes that work for some of the most stubborn sleep problems around. And three important reasons to keep looking until you find something that works for […]
It’s already later than I want to eat dinner and I just got home from work. Diane is outside taking care of the chickens and I said I’d put together something to go with the meat nicely thawed on the counter and the sweet potato already cooking in the timer-set oven.
No one would ever imagine that Julie was pre-diabetic. Tall and slim, consistently athletic, she looked like the picture of health for a woman in her 40’s. She, however, knew that wasn’t the case. She ran into people in the store who seemed to know her—she didn’t have a clue who they were. Several times […]
I have been fascinated recently with the intersecting stories of genetics, lifestyle choices, and dementia, and thought I’d share with you some of the information particular to genetics!
Warning: if you don’t believe in the process of evolution and natural selection, you might not enjoy the opening paragraphs. Skip to the second part!
“How can I stop these repeated urinary infections I’ve had in menopause?” If you read my previously posted “Solutions for Urinary Tract Infections,” you may have easily skipped over a line that deserves an article all its own: “For menopausal women, local hormone applications can strengthen the bladder’s natural defenses against infection.” This topic comes […]
For whatever reason, you wonder if you’re not eating as healthily as you would like to. Perhaps you’ve noticed that you’ve gained some stubborn pounds, especially around your middle. Maybe your hair (or skin or nails) lacks the vitality and sheen it used to have. Maybe your doc has added a few prescriptions to your daily routine, something for high blood pressure or maybe for cholesterol.
Today is day 30 and this has been my best (of three) one yet! As I mentioned last month, I added one allowed cheat (dairy in coffee, no more than once a day) and everything else didn’t even ask me to find a cheat for it. For some reason, I didn’t miss the beer or wine before dinner, didn’t miss the cheese appetizers, nor the chocolate after lunch, and my usual oblivion to bread and legumes persisted nicely.
Maybe you’d better sit down before I tell you this shocking news: our fear of dietary fat was partially fueled by sugar industry investment in favorable sugar research. Hard to believe, isn’t it? What, you’re not shocked?
Just for fun, what do the experts say about healthy aging, are they right?