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Efficacy and Safety of Vitamins/Supplements Part I by DrTomPerls
Posted about 8 hours ago
PART ONE (PART TWO TO FOLLOW)
So do you take vitamins or other supplements? If so, why? Do they help? Give the group your thoughts!
First, I have to mention DSHEA… DSHEA is the Dietary Supplements Health Education Act, passed by Congress in 1994 and some say in the dead of night with huge pressure by the very wealthy and powerful industry that profits from the sales of these products. Basically DSHEA covers a list of substances a marketer could almost fit anything into. Substances that can be called dietary supplements include:
► vitamins
► minerals
► herbs or other botanicals
► amino acid...
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List of Recent Blogs
I hope all of you are finding my posts thought provoking and/or helpful. Here is a list of the blog titles to date, beginning with the most recent.
1. Stop or delay memory loss
2. 115 yrs: The currently oldest person
3. Trouble sleeping?
4. Check the sponsor of the research!
5. Food for thought! -A comparison of different cultures in how much and what they eat and apparent benefits/risks
6. Married centenarians. -Can you imagine being married for 80 or more years? And what about people who were never married?
7. A-G-E-I-N-G: 6 steps to a longer life
8. The Longevity Calculator
I hope all of you are finding my posts thought provoking and/or helpful. Here is a list of the blog titles to date, beginning with the most recent.
1. Stop or delay memory loss
2. 115 yrs: The currently oldest person
3. Trouble sleeping?
4. Check the sponsor of the research!
5. Food for thought! -A comparison of different cultures in how much and what they eat and apparent benefits/risks
6. Married centenarians. -Can you imagine being married for 80 or more years? And what about people who were never married?
7. A-G-E-I-N-G: 6 steps to a longer life
8. The Longevity Calculator
5 days ago
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You Name It, and Exercise Helps It
By JANE E. BRODY
Published: April 29, 2008
Randi considers the Y.M.C.A. her lifeline, especially the pool. Randi weighs more than 300 pounds and has borderline diabetes, but she controls her blood sugar and keeps her bright outlook on life by swimming every day for about 45 minutes.
Randi overcame any self-consciousness about her weight for the sake of her health, and those who swim with her and share the open locker room are proud of her. If only the millions of others beset with chronic health problems recognized the inestimable value to their physical and emotional well-being of regular physical exercise.
Published: April 29, 2008
Randi considers the Y.M.C.A. her lifeline, especially the pool. Randi weighs more than 300 pounds and has borderline diabetes, but she controls her blood sugar and keeps her bright outlook on life by swimming every day for about 45 minutes.
Randi overcame any self-consciousness about her weight for the sake of her health, and those who swim with her and share the open locker room are proud of her. If only the millions of others beset with chronic health problems recognized the inestimable value to their physical and emotional well-being of regular physical exercise.
Lessons in Likability, Longevity
Written by Kathryn Savage
There have been many convincing studies conducted about the positive impact of social bonding on overall health and longevity.
A recent study led by Lisa Berkman of Harvard found that over a ninety-year period, seniors with the most social connection seemed to outlive their isolated peers. Stark evidence suggests that people without a lot of friends were between two and three times more likely to die.
Good news!
The type of connection mattered less than the simple fact that their was some personal connection being sustained. In other words, date night with your significant other, or trips to Hawaii with your girls aren't your only opportunity to reap the health rewards of friendship; joining a local softball league with relative strangers might pack the same good-for-you punch!
What does it take to be surrounded by friends?
Nurture the relationships you have and foster new relationships by being likable.
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There have been many convincing studies conducted about the positive impact of social bonding on overall health and longevity.
A recent study led by Lisa Berkman of Harvard found that over a ninety-year period, seniors with the most social connection seemed to outlive their isolated peers. Stark evidence suggests that people without a lot of friends were between two and three times more likely to die.
Good news!
The type of connection mattered less than the simple fact that their was some personal connection being sustained. In other words, date night with your significant other, or trips to Hawaii with your girls aren't your only opportunity to reap the health rewards of friendship; joining a local softball league with relative strangers might pack the same good-for-you punch!
What does it take to be surrounded by friends?
Nurture the relationships you have and foster new relationships by being likable.
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Blue Zones
by Dan Buettner
How it Works
In my book, The Blue Zone, I reveal the secrets of the Power9: the nine common denominators that all of the world’s longevity all-stars share. Here at BlueZones.com, we've organized these behaviors into four main categories:
Move Naturally – Make your home, community and workplace present you with natural ways to move. Focus on activities you love, like gardening, walking and playing with your family.
Belong to the Right Tribe – Surround yourself with the right people, make the effort to connect or reconnect with your religion and put loved ones first.
Eat Wisely – Instead of groping from fad diet to fad diets, use time-honored strategies for eating 20% less at meals. Avoid meat and processed food and drink a couple of glasses of wine daily.
Right Outlook – Know and be able to articulate your sense of purpose, and ensure your day is punctuated with periods of calm.
This may all sound too simple, but the payoff is huge. The average American could live up to 14 more good years by putting these habits to work.
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How it Works
In my book, The Blue Zone, I reveal the secrets of the Power9: the nine common denominators that all of the world’s longevity all-stars share. Here at BlueZones.com, we've organized these behaviors into four main categories:
Move Naturally – Make your home, community and workplace present you with natural ways to move. Focus on activities you love, like gardening, walking and playing with your family.
Belong to the Right Tribe – Surround yourself with the right people, make the effort to connect or reconnect with your religion and put loved ones first.
Eat Wisely – Instead of groping from fad diet to fad diets, use time-honored strategies for eating 20% less at meals. Avoid meat and processed food and drink a couple of glasses of wine daily.
Right Outlook – Know and be able to articulate your sense of purpose, and ensure your day is punctuated with periods of calm.
This may all sound too simple, but the payoff is huge. The average American could live up to 14 more good years by putting these habits to work.
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How To Move Like A Centenarian
Written by Kathryn Savage
Centenarians around the globe don’t pump iron, they don’t run marathons or spend long hours sweating to the oldies. Instead, they make time for regular, steady movement throughout the day.
Movement and healthy eating should be more-often-than-nots. You eat well more often than not. You workout (walk, hike, chop wood, do yoga, vacuum, hand-whip whipped cream, whatever) more often than not.
In other words, you make moving an unavoidable and fun part of your day. Every day. Most male centenarians in Sardinia’s Blue Zone work as shepherds, a profession that involves a lot of interval-cardio. What? Cardio isn’t the first thing you think of when you think of shepherds? They spend long hours every day walking up and down hillsides. Sounds pretty intense to me. The most I lift while working is a coffee mug. Sometimes a cookie or two. Okinawans? They spend an average three hours daily in their gardens harvesting their own food. And Adventists in Loma Linda, California relax and take nature walks together.
Be warned, gardening and walking won’t be sufficient if your goal is weight loss. If you want to lose weight you are best off reducing calorie intake. (Not very groundbreaking, I’ll admit) But if your focus is on overall, lifelong health and reaching triple digits, an ideal routine would include a combo of aerobic, stretching and muscle-strengthening.
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Centenarians around the globe don’t pump iron, they don’t run marathons or spend long hours sweating to the oldies. Instead, they make time for regular, steady movement throughout the day.
Movement and healthy eating should be more-often-than-nots. You eat well more often than not. You workout (walk, hike, chop wood, do yoga, vacuum, hand-whip whipped cream, whatever) more often than not.
In other words, you make moving an unavoidable and fun part of your day. Every day. Most male centenarians in Sardinia’s Blue Zone work as shepherds, a profession that involves a lot of interval-cardio. What? Cardio isn’t the first thing you think of when you think of shepherds? They spend long hours every day walking up and down hillsides. Sounds pretty intense to me. The most I lift while working is a coffee mug. Sometimes a cookie or two. Okinawans? They spend an average three hours daily in their gardens harvesting their own food. And Adventists in Loma Linda, California relax and take nature walks together.
Be warned, gardening and walking won’t be sufficient if your goal is weight loss. If you want to lose weight you are best off reducing calorie intake. (Not very groundbreaking, I’ll admit) But if your focus is on overall, lifelong health and reaching triple digits, an ideal routine would include a combo of aerobic, stretching and muscle-strengthening.
See Reply
Living to 100
I am new to Eons.com. I just did the survey! With the advances in medical and mental health treatment, I am now half way to 100! My grand aunt lived to be 102! She was active to the the 100 year mark!
Growth Hormone is POISON
Growth Hormone For Anti-Aging: QUACK QUACK!
About 10 years ago, early in my studies of centenarians, I noticed that a fledgling anti-aging industry was mis-using my work, citing it in their marketing materials. Given their horrible portrayal of older people and that most of what they were selling was nonsense and in some cases dangerous, I began to resaerch some of the things they were doing. Their promotion and selling of growth hormone, in particular, caught my eye. Eventually, I co-authored an article in the Journal of the American Medical Association about the illegal and clinical misues of growth hormone, which in turn led to my opportunity to testify before the Oversight Committee.
HGH levels gradually decline in adults with minimal or no negative health consequences for the vast majority of the population. The anti-aging industry, the primary pusher and seller of hGH in this country, advertises that normal declines in hGH cause decreases in strength, muscle mass, sleep, and sexual performance. They go on to claim that replenishing growth hormone to levels present at younger ages stops or reverses these problems as well as aging itself. This is a ruse and medical quackery.
Ironically, there is no credible scientific evidence that hGH substantively increases muscle strength or aerobic exercise capacity in normal individuals.
In a report that was released by the Annals of Internal Medicine last week, researchers at Stanford combined data from 27 different studies of healthy, relatively fit adult men with an average age of 27 years. They found that while muscle mass increased, perhaps because of muscle retention of fluid, strength and exercise capacity did not increase. In fact, the study suggested that exercise capacity worsened. Furthermore, adverse events such as upper extremity swelling and fatigue were more frequent among those who received the hGH.
Other side effects to be concerned about include diabetes, cancer and joint pains.
For a video of the hearing, go to: view link
About 10 years ago, early in my studies of centenarians, I noticed that a fledgling anti-aging industry was mis-using my work, citing it in their marketing materials. Given their horrible portrayal of older people and that most of what they were selling was nonsense and in some cases dangerous, I began to resaerch some of the things they were doing. Their promotion and selling of growth hormone, in particular, caught my eye. Eventually, I co-authored an article in the Journal of the American Medical Association about the illegal and clinical misues of growth hormone, which in turn led to my opportunity to testify before the Oversight Committee.
HGH levels gradually decline in adults with minimal or no negative health consequences for the vast majority of the population. The anti-aging industry, the primary pusher and seller of hGH in this country, advertises that normal declines in hGH cause decreases in strength, muscle mass, sleep, and sexual performance. They go on to claim that replenishing growth hormone to levels present at younger ages stops or reverses these problems as well as aging itself. This is a ruse and medical quackery.
Ironically, there is no credible scientific evidence that hGH substantively increases muscle strength or aerobic exercise capacity in normal individuals.
In a report that was released by the Annals of Internal Medicine last week, researchers at Stanford combined data from 27 different studies of healthy, relatively fit adult men with an average age of 27 years. They found that while muscle mass increased, perhaps because of muscle retention of fluid, strength and exercise capacity did not increase. In fact, the study suggested that exercise capacity worsened. Furthermore, adverse events such as upper extremity swelling and fatigue were more frequent among those who received the hGH.
Other side effects to be concerned about include diabetes, cancer and joint pains.
For a video of the hearing, go to: view link
Lauging is jogging for the brain
Happy Weekend Friends!
So I see that a few are interested in living to 100! And, there's some interest in happieness and resiliance... Well ,guess what, they are all related. Funny how that happens.
Firstly, a number of folks have called laughing: jogging for the brain. Just as it is important to strength train to keep and/or build your muscle mass, numerous neuropschologists say that it is important to exercise the brain. One way to do this is to participate in cognitive activities that are both novel (new) and complex. The most powerful or most potent activities are learnig a new language or how to play a new instrument. These are very hard activities at first, but isn't it interesting that as we get into these activities, they become easier. It's again very similar to weight training... as we build the muscle, moving those weights becomes easier.
Eons has a brain teasers site that allows you to exercise different parts of your brain and this likely leads to increased functional reserve or functional capacity. This in turn can delay progression of memory loss and even, for those who are suceptible, Alzheimer's Disease.
And lots of humor and laughing may help do the same thing! It turns out that a lot of the centenarians in the New England Centenarian Study are funny and gregarious people. They tend not to be neurotic.. that is they are able to let go of stress instead of inernalizing it. This is helpful for decreasing risk for cardiovascular disease, cancer and Alzheimer's.
Being gregarious and funny also helps you make friends and this in turns leads to expanded social networks that surely contribute to longevity.
So I see that a few are interested in living to 100! And, there's some interest in happieness and resiliance... Well ,guess what, they are all related. Funny how that happens.
Firstly, a number of folks have called laughing: jogging for the brain. Just as it is important to strength train to keep and/or build your muscle mass, numerous neuropschologists say that it is important to exercise the brain. One way to do this is to participate in cognitive activities that are both novel (new) and complex. The most powerful or most potent activities are learnig a new language or how to play a new instrument. These are very hard activities at first, but isn't it interesting that as we get into these activities, they become easier. It's again very similar to weight training... as we build the muscle, moving those weights becomes easier.
Eons has a brain teasers site that allows you to exercise different parts of your brain and this likely leads to increased functional reserve or functional capacity. This in turn can delay progression of memory loss and even, for those who are suceptible, Alzheimer's Disease.
And lots of humor and laughing may help do the same thing! It turns out that a lot of the centenarians in the New England Centenarian Study are funny and gregarious people. They tend not to be neurotic.. that is they are able to let go of stress instead of inernalizing it. This is helpful for decreasing risk for cardiovascular disease, cancer and Alzheimer's.
Being gregarious and funny also helps you make friends and this in turns leads to expanded social networks that surely contribute to longevity.
Aging: What to expect as you get older
Find out what's considered a normal part of the aging process.
Looked in the mirror lately only to find a few more wrinkles and gray hairs? Those are just a few of the changes you're likely to notice as you get older. But what exactly is going on with your body? Here's what you can expect as you age.
How long can you live?
The longest documented human life span is 122 years. Though a life span that long is rare, improvements in medicine, science and technology during the last century have helped more people live longer, healthier lives. If you were born in the early 1900s in the United States, your life expectancy was only about 50 years. Today it's around 77.
And if you're sure you've already done too much damage to yourself to hope for a long life, think again. Researchers say it's never too late to adopt a healthy lifestyle. For example, if you quit smoking now, your risk of heart disease begins to fall almost immediately. Living a healthy lifestyle can improve how you age. Eating a variety of fruits and vegetables and getting out for a daily walk are ways you can begin preparing now for your later years.
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Looked in the mirror lately only to find a few more wrinkles and gray hairs? Those are just a few of the changes you're likely to notice as you get older. But what exactly is going on with your body? Here's what you can expect as you age.
How long can you live?
The longest documented human life span is 122 years. Though a life span that long is rare, improvements in medicine, science and technology during the last century have helped more people live longer, healthier lives. If you were born in the early 1900s in the United States, your life expectancy was only about 50 years. Today it's around 77.
And if you're sure you've already done too much damage to yourself to hope for a long life, think again. Researchers say it's never too late to adopt a healthy lifestyle. For example, if you quit smoking now, your risk of heart disease begins to fall almost immediately. Living a healthy lifestyle can improve how you age. Eating a variety of fruits and vegetables and getting out for a daily walk are ways you can begin preparing now for your later years.
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Anti-aging quiz
Secrets to a longer, healthier life
Anti-aging remedies sound easy: Take a pill and live forever. It's true that living a long and healthy life can be easy, but it doesn't involve secret anti-aging pills. It just takes simple changes to your daily routine to make you feel better and reduce your risk of disease. The following questions test your knowledge about how to live a long and healthy life. As you answer these questions, consider how the lifestyle choices you make now may affect your health as you age.
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Anti-aging remedies sound easy: Take a pill and live forever. It's true that living a long and healthy life can be easy, but it doesn't involve secret anti-aging pills. It just takes simple changes to your daily routine to make you feel better and reduce your risk of disease. The following questions test your knowledge about how to live a long and healthy life. As you answer these questions, consider how the lifestyle choices you make now may affect your health as you age.
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Living Longer
The Pros and Cons of Aging
Re-Evaluating Status, Inheritance and Dating for Seniors
By MYRNA TOLEDO
March 31, 2008
It won't surprise you to learn that some of the country's top young comedians draw humor from the topic of aging — and most often, the audience responds with big laughs. While racist jokes are taboo in this country, ageism is still fair game.
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Re-Evaluating Status, Inheritance and Dating for Seniors
By MYRNA TOLEDO
March 31, 2008
It won't surprise you to learn that some of the country's top young comedians draw humor from the topic of aging — and most often, the audience responds with big laughs. While racist jokes are taboo in this country, ageism is still fair game.
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Living to 100 101
This is the official Eons group that serves as a follow-up to our Longevity Calculator and features Dr. Tom's Blog.
Dr. Tom is Associate Professor of Medicine at Boston University Medical Center
The Longevity Calculator, which predicts how long you will live and provides tips on how to add years to your life, was created by Dr. Tom Perls.
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