September is Healthy Aging Month, so here are 7 anti-aging health tips. Growing older is not an illness, but the passing years do make the body more vulnerable to disease. Why is this? A significant number of problems faced by people over the age of 60 years may also...
It is possible to maintain good health as you age rather than succumb to “inevitable” degenerative conditions. Degenerative conditions are not inevitable if you take actions to control and optimize your metabolism. What is Metabolism? Metabolism is the process by...
Many people are afraid of eating foods they think will raise their cholesterol. The fact is that most of the cholesterol in our blood is not there because of what we’ve eaten. When we consume foods containing cholesterol, we only absorb 2 to 4 mg of cholesterol...
Oxidative stress is an imbalance between damaging free radicals and antioxidants in a body. Free radicals are oxygen-containing molecules with an uneven number of electrons. The uneven number allows them to easily react with other molecules. Free radicals can cause...
What is oxidative stress? The imbalance between the formation and accumulation of reactive oxygen species (ROS) in cells and tissues and the biological system’s ability to detoxify these reactive products lead to oxidative stress[1]. Reactive oxygen species are...
