Aging

Nestlé Says You Can Drink Yourself Beautiful- If You Buy Their Stuff

Nestlé, the world's largest food and beverage company, has introduced Glowelle, a dietary supplement that they say protects and hydrates the inner and outer layers of the skin. Their marketing blurb says it is formulated with a proprietary(naturally) ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 8 2008 - 6:27pm

Myelin And Middle Age- Brainwise, We All Start Slowing Down At 40

In middle age we begin to lose myelin, the fatty sheath of "insulation" that coats our nerve axons and allows for fast signaling bursts in our brains. So if you want to be the best at anything requiring speedy brain reaction times, you'd bet ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 18 2008 - 1:24am

Hepatic Energy Metabolism- Low Calorie Diets Still Produce Plenty Of Energy

Over the past 30 years, the U.S. population has reduced its fat intake and increased its consumption of carbohydrates. During the same time period, obesity has been rising along with the prevalence of metabolic liver disease in which fatty deposits in the ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 20 2008 - 7:45pm

Bye Bye Botox- LEDs May Help Reduce Skin Wrinkles

Researchers in Germany are describing a potential alternative to Botox and cosmetic surgery for easing facial wrinkles. Their study, scheduled for the November 5 issue of ACS' Crystal Growth&Design,  reports that high intensity visible light from ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 20 2008 - 7:54pm

Skin Creams Can Actually Make Skin Drier- Study

Many people believe that as soon as you start using a skin cream, you have to continue with it; if you stop lubricating, your skin becomes drier than when you started. And now there is research to confirm for the first time that normal skin can become drie ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 22 2008 - 6:25pm

Eat Less, Live Longer? No, Smell Less!

Some animals live longer when raised on low-calorie diets but now researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis say that they can extend the life spans of roundworms even when the worms are well fed — it just takes a chemical that bl ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 24 2008 - 12:31pm

What Common Factors Cause Some Old People To Maintain Exceptional Health?

Why do some older people appear to be thriving and others not?   Genetics and bad luck are certainly a factor but elderly people who have a positive outlook, lower stress levels, moderate alcohol consumption, abstention from tobacco, moderate to higher in ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 27 2008 - 12:09pm

Predicting Menopause- Hormone Data Accurate To Within One Year

For many women, including the growing number who choose later-in-life pregnancy, predicting their biological clock's relation to the timing of their menopause and infertility is critically important.   Investigators from the University of Michigan say ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 27 2008 - 4:15pm

MK-677 Effective For Age-Related Frailty, Says Study

Researchers at the University of Virginia Health System report that a daily single oral dose of an investigational drug, MK-677, increased muscle mass in the arms and legs of healthy older adults without serious side effects, suggesting that it may prove s ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 4 2008 - 2:46pm

Beta-Alanine Dietary Sports Supplement Helps Elderly Also

Beta-alanine (BA), a dietary supplement widely used by athletes and body builders, has been proven to increase the fitness levels of a group of elderly men and women. The research, published in Journal of the International Society of Sports Nutrition, sugg ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 6 2008 - 7:30pm