When I was young, having a tan was a must have in order to look healthy. We never used sun screen. In fact, I don’t think it was invented yet. Those long days at the beach were spent collecting vitamin D, a tan, and a good feeling from being in the warm sun all day. [...]
“But First, Are You Experienced?”
A colonoscopy is the most dreaded and despised initiation rite of arriving at your 50’s. But, humbling as it may be, it has been found to identify 65% of pre-cancerous polyps in women.
So a colonoscopy experience can have redeeming features. A colonoscopy is like an advanced sigmoidoscopy. [...]
Exercise Your Brain.
According to Michael Merzenich, chief scientific officer with Posit Science in San Francisco, the key to memory longevity is lifelong learning. (Exercising your brain.)
“Often, as people age, they engage in less and less learning,” Merzenich told United Press International. “They rest on their laurels, and their environments, even if stimulating (such as a [...]
Avoiding Alzheimer’s disease can be as easy as drinking fruit juices and flossing daily— according to a new study by the New York School of Medicine. What they found was:
1. Drinking fruit or vegetable juice at least three times a week makes you four times less likely to develop Alzheimer’s. So mom was right. Carrot [...]
Ever suffer from a brain fart? That momentary lapse of brain function where you can almost feel the gas passing between the folds of your aging brain while you stare into space?
You can now overcome brain farts by taking folic acid. Taking 800 micrograms of folic acid a day improved the memory of older [...]
A group of chemicals in apples could protect the brain from the type of damage that triggers such neurodegenerative diseases as Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s, according to two new studies from Cornell University food scientists.
The studies show that the chemical quercetin, a so-called phytonutrient, appears to be largely responsible for protecting brain cells when assaulted by [...]
A recent study demonstrating the preventive effects of cannabinoids on Alzheimer’s disease, was conducted by researchers at the Cajal Institute and Complutense University in Madrid. The study appears in the February 23, 2005, issue of The Journal of Neuroscience.
Researchers showed that cannabinoids prevented cognitive decline through rat experiments. In these experiments, they injected either [...]
People who drink wine weekly or monthly are more than two times less likely to develop dementia according to a recent study.
The results are exciting because they could mean that substances in wine reduce the occurrence of dementia, which means that soon scientists will distill these substances into a wine “pill” you’ll take in your [...]