Weight loss improves many of the adverse health outcomes associated with obesity, including preventing or delaying the onset of diabetes, improving blood sugar control in those with diabetes, reducing low-density lipoprotein (bad cholesterol), raising high-density lipoprotein (good cholesterol), improving hypertension, improving symptoms of osteoarthritis, and providing an improved sense of well-being. (more…)

Mutations that extend lifespan in invertebrates typically render the animals resistant to multiple forms of lethal injury, whether the threat comes from oxidative agents, heat, heavy metals, or irradiation. Indeed, this stress resistance seems likely to represent the mechanism by which these mutations delay the aging process. Thus presumably much of the cellular and extracellular pathology that produces dysfunction and increases mortality risk in older animals is held in abeyance by the same, poorly defined, defenses that permit nematodes and flies to survive when exposed to external stress in an experimental setting. (more…)

Altered cellular metabolism and intracellular and intercellular signaling with advancing age result in widespread changes in endocrine function. Several mechanisms interact in most systems to bring about the observed changes. Aging is associated with anatomic changes of the endocrine glands. In addition, with age, changes in hormone replacement secretion occur, including alterations in circadian or seasonal biorhythms, changes in pulsatile frequency or amplitude of growth hormone secretion, as well as absolute changes in mean serum hormonal levels. The three main hormone systems that show decline with age are the gonadal hormones (menopause and andropause), the adrenal steroids DHEA and DHEA-S (adrenopause), and the GH/IGF-1 axis (somatopause). (more…)

A decline in glucose tolerance with age is a common finding that leads to an increased incidence of type 2 diabetes (T2DM) in the elderly. By age 60, 18.3% of persons have diabetes. Nearly 50% of individuals with T2DM are over the age of 65 years. (more…)

It is never too late to promote life span extension through sensible diet. A study shows that a strict low-calorie diet can promote life span of mice more than 40 percent. Many studies have shown that using this method on starting young mice on a diet with calorie restriction can help them live months longer than animals fed a standard diet. But the new study shows that even 19 months old mice can be comparable to 60 and 65 years of life in human. Those can be achieved by eating fewer calories. (more…)

Your potential average and maximum life spans will be substantially increased by the nutrient-rich food.

Let’s say that your hereditary potential the age you might expect to reach based upon the genes you’ve inherited from your parents is to live to be 80 years old. Let’s assume that you started and stuck to a rather high percentage of calorie limit, beginning at age 20. Over that remaining 60 years you might expect to age at half the expected rate, be “functionally” 50 when you were in fact chronologically 80. Your 60 years would thus stretch out to 120. (more…)

I’ve been noticing my body’s growing inclination to slow down, how it’s starting to get tougher to get off the couch, how it takes longer to heal, how I groan a little more when getting out of bed in the morning. I see a trend for the next 60 years.

And, I’ve been playing with it and experimenting with how to avoid all that. You too can avoid body aches and pains in elderly by following these 7 Easy Steps. (more…)

The amount of “complete” protein a person requires per day is about 0.015 ounces per pound of body weight. This comes to around 2 ounces per day, depending on the size of the person. This amount is required to replace the protein the body loses daily in the form of discarded cells, and proteins broken down or “turned over” through metabolism. Such replacement protein is not used for energy but goes back into the structure of the body.

However, at low calorie levels, the body may divert some of this replacement protein into energy use, and leave you relatively deficient in protein for structural use. (more…)

Aging theories cover the physiological, genetic, biochemical properties of a typical organism, and the way these properties change with time. Theories of genetic dealing with the identity of aging obesity genes, accumulation of errors in the genetic machinery, programmed senescence, and telomeres theory. Biochemical theories are concerned with generation of free radicals, the rate of living, energy metabolism, and the health of mitochondria. While Theory of Physiological deal most entirely with the endocrine system and the purpose of hormones in governing the rate of cellular aging. (more…)

Chronic diseases are not generally prevented by vaccines or cured by medication, nor do they just disappear. To a large degree, the major chronic disease killers—heart disease, cancer, stroke, and diabetes—are an extension of what people do, or not do, as they go about their daily lives. (more…)