Enjoy The “Blue Zone” Protein Of Long Life
A group of scientists who study what makes some people live longer than others are now saying that one unique protein could be an important key to increased life expectancy.They’ve made this
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Can This Artificial Sweetener Give You A Heart Attack?
If you’ve got diabetes or want to lose weight, you’re probably avoiding sugar like the plague.And that means you may be looking for other ways to satisfy your sweet tooth.But if you’re using
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The Neptune Secret To Living Longer
If you want to live longer, you’ve got to maintain the health of your kidneys. Unfortunately, many people forget about their kidneys until there’s a problem. But your kidneys are critical to ridding
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Eat This Common Fruit And Live Longer
In the U.S., the humble grape is the third most popular fruit, with California producing almost all the grapes eaten; that’s over 5.75 million tons in 2021.If some of those grapes end up in your
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Is Your Meal Healthy? Here’s How To Know For Sure…
With 40,000 items in the average supermarket, making healthy choices can be challenging. That sourdough loaf, tub of yogurt and can of vegetable soup might look wholesome but may not be all they’re
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What Is The “Perfect” Anti-Aging Diet?
How do the foods we choose to eat and the nutrients within them affect how we age? It’s a very simple question, yet the answer is anything but simple.Manipulating a single dietary factor such as
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Can This Wonder Pill STOP Dementia?
If you’re anything like me, you’re doing everything possible to stop dementia before it starts.That’s why you eat plenty of fruits and veggies, never miss your morning walk, and always get a good
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Eat This To Get Bones Of Steel…
Few things are as scary as breaking a bone.The shock of the initial break, the painful setting, and the lengthy healing process are enough to drive anyone mad. But if you’re over 65… and you break a
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Can A Brand-New “Longevity Vitamin” Add Years To Your Life?
Some renowned scientists are pointing to an amino acid as key to long life. One scientist described it as a “longevity vitamin” while another says it’s likely going to be named a “new vitamin”
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“The Longevity Diet” That Can Add 20 Years To Your Lifespan
From vegan to Mediterranean to keto, experts differ on the healthiest diet to eat for longevity. So, how do we decide what’s best?After a thorough review covering over a century of research,
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This Anti-Aging Snack Should Be On Your Menu
Sometimes nutrients that can help you live significantly longer and healthier are discovered in unlikely places. For example, one snack is surprising researchers with its ability to help keep both
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The “Popeye Secret” for Stronger Muscles
It’s no secret that the older you get, the harder it becomes to stay physically strong. Simple things like lifting a grandchild or helping your spouse in the yard can seem like daunting tasks.And
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This Change in Diet Could Give You an Extra Ten Years of Life Expectancy
Want to push back against the deadly effects of aging? All you need is a fork.According to a study on longevity, changing the foods you consume everyday can make a big difference in how long you can
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Can Eating Hot Dogs Shave Years Off a Healthy Life?
The National Hot Dog and Sausage Council estimates that Americans consume 20 billion hot dogs a year. If you’re one of these hot dog lovers, you might reconsider regular consumption of these ballpark
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Too Much of This Essential Mineral Will Age You
We need the mineral iron in our blood to support healthy oxygenation and fight fatigue. It's a mineral we certainly don’t want to be short of, but it's also vital that we don't have too much,
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Common Vegetable’s Anti-Aging Secret
The famous 19th century artist Paul Cézanne, said, “The day is coming when a single carrot, freshly observed, will set off a revolution.”I don’t suppose the revolution he was thinking of concerned
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This Seafood Could Add Almost Five Years to Your Life
Giving up smoking is probably the single most important action people can take to improve their health and lengthen their life.Now, a new study suggests that if you’re missing out on the nutrients
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Fresh Vegetables and Fruit Will Help You Live Longer-- Especially When You Eat Them Like This…
The culinary recipe for a long life goes beyond eating fruits, vegetables, whole grains, and lean sources of protein and fats.The latest research shows that the timing in which you eat these foods is
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Could This be the Most Important Food for Living Longer?
When researchers looked around the globe to discover which populations enjoy the longest life exptectancy, they focused on several different groups who consistently outlive the rest of us.After they
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Is Pomegranate the Key to Slow Aging?
Described as a potential "game-changer for human health", a recently discovered molecule is improving muscle strength, improving symptoms of neurological disease and boosting the lifespan of sick
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Harvard Doctor’s Go-To Anti-Aging Supplement
Investigations into the aging process indicate that a good part of the secret to feeling younger starts at the cellular level, with the mitochondria – the organelles in each cell that produce
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These Foods Could Help You Live 31 Percent Longer
It’s not news that fruits and vegetables can fight the diseases of aging, but here’s something you may not know: They can help you live 31 percent longer.Unfortunately, the vast majority of
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These Two Foods Give You Younger-Looking Skin
For many of us it’s no fun to gaze into the mirror, see those fine lines form, and then grow longer, deeper and wider over the years. That's why there's a rapidly growing market for anti-wrinkle
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The Little-Known Longevity Vitamin That’s Key to Longer Life
When researchers at Tufts University took a look at the health and vitamin levels of about 4,000 Americans in their 50s, 60s and 70s over the course of 13 years, they made a surprising
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Just a Little of this Longevity Nutrient Triggers Genes to Fight Aging
If you’re wondering if medical researchers will come up with a longevity pill that can help you live longer, you might be excited to find out that they’re making headway.Of course, it will be years
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Is Plant Protein the Fountain of Youth?
Diets high in protein, particularly plant protein, have been linked to lower risks of developing diabetes, heart disease and stroke. However, regular consumption of protein-rich red meat and high
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This Anti-Aging Vitamin Can Strengthen Your Muscles
When a 51-year-old Australian woman came into her doctor’s office for help managing her type-2 diabetes, one of her main complaints was muscle pain. Her legs would hurt after only walking one block.
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How to Reverse Brain Aging Through Diet
Scientists have studied longevity in numerous animal species, from fruit flies to rodents to monkeys, and in almost every case they found that calorie restriction extends life span. But why?Ketone
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These Nutrients and Vitamins Can Keep Frailty Away
Getting frail as you age can ruin your life.The chronic, weakening condition known as frailty restricts the life of one out of every four people over age 65. And by the time you’re in your 80s, your
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Vitamin D Deficiency Triples Risk of an Early Death
As long-time readers of this newsletter know, maintaining healthy vitamin D levels is critical to your good health. Brand-new research shows just how powerful vitamin D is, revealing that your very
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Natural Anti-Aging Nutrient Makes Cells Younger
In the search for natural ways to keep the body younger, researchers have discovered a nutrient in certain fruits and vegetables they call a “geroprotector,” a new term for something that protects
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Cheapest, Most Common Vitamin is a Key to Longer Life
As you get older your body starts losing its hold on a vitamin that can both help your immune system fight off harmful microbes and keep your skin looking younger.Plus, studies indicate that getting
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Your Body Doesn’t Handle Food the Way It did When You Were 20
I remember a time when I thought little of my nutritional needs. If I managed to eat some protein, a few carbs and some fruits and vegetables (a “square meal” as they called it then), I thought I was
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This May Be the Most Valuable Mineral for Better Aging
To age better, you have to give your body the nutritional tools it needs to make your immune system hum, to help your heart stay healthy and to maintain the internal systems that fend off
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Will Fo-Ti Cure Your Top Aging Issues?
To be honest, when I first heard the term fo-ti, I thought it sounded like one of the martial arts. But then I learned that it’s actually a climbing knotweed plant that’s native to China and has been
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Want a Long Life? Don’t Imbibe These Drinks
The first large scale study on sugar-sweetened beverages has just reported, and the results are clear. These drinks shrink our lifespan. The more we consume, the shorter our lives will be.The effect
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Spring Fruits and Vegetables that Keep You Young
For those of us living in northern climes, it’s been a long, cold winter. Even more than usual, I’m looking forward to the fresh fruits and vegetables of spring and summer.Gourmands know that half
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A Cocktail of Familiar and Obscure Nutrients Can Add Years to Your Life
Leading scientist Bruce Ames, now 90, has published more than 500 studies in his distinguished career, and shows no sign of letting up.In his latest paper he introduces the idea of "longevity
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Slow Down Lung Aging, Breathe Easier with These Foods
Every minute of every day, two basic activities keep you alive from one moment to the next: your heartbeat and your breathing.We’ve all read or seen a ton of information about how to keep your heart
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Scientists Say This Life-Extending Nutrient Should be Considered a Vitamin
Arriving from all over the world, a veritable Who's Who of anti-aging scientists gathered at the campus of UCLA in Westwood, California in 2011.They met to discuss a newly rediscovered nutrient that
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Want to Live Longer? Eat This Snack Three Times a Week
Research now shows you can improve your health and increase your chances of living longer with a snack that doesn’t cost much, and is already popular for good reason: it’s delicious.This goes against
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An Anti-Aging “Miracle” from Asia
Imagine there was a natural compound that could figure out what was wrong with your body and fix it.Imagine the same compound could be smoothed on your skin to fight wrinkles … or swallowed to boost
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Don't Want to Fast? This Supplement Can be a Substitute!
Fasting has long been known to extend lifespan.From worms to mice to rhesus monkeys, the lives of many creatures can be rendered longer by restricting their food intake.This may be an effective
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Fruits and Vegetables Aren’t What They Used to Be
If you’re old enough, you may realize that today’s fruits and vegetables just don’t taste like the ones you remember as a child.It’s not your imagination, or nostalgia.The drive to increase food
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These Two Common Food Nutrients Accelerate Aging
If you’ve been following the research into how to slow down aging, you’ve probably read that cutting calories and periodically fasting can help prolong your life. We’ve written about it frequently in
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A Cozy Drink Reduces Glaucoma Risk
If the thought of losing your vision scares you as you get older, you’re not alone. Most people fear blindness more than losing a limb, and almost as much as getting cancer.1That’s why glaucoma is so
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A New, Easier Way to Fast – And Add Years to Your life
We’ve written before about how fasting is one of the most effective ways to add years to your life (see Issue #8). In fact, it’s been called the only proven method of life extension.The trouble is,
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The Anti-Aging Mineral That Millions Miss Out On
One of the most most important ways to fight aging is to keep your immune system operating at peak efficiency. A declining immune system is one of the most common causes of aging, but there are
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This Broccoli Compound Slows Aging
A recent study shows a certain natural compound reverses the aging process by making cells act younger than they actually are. It’s called nicotinamide mononucleotide, or NMN for short.This and other
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New Nutrient Combats Mitochondrial Aging
There’s a great deal of evidence that mitochondria - the "powerhouses of the cell" - are a major factor in determining how long you’ll live.With aging come damaging changes in these cellular energy
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Weird Tips to Boost the Nutritional Value of Your Food
Experts in natural health never tire of reminding us that food is the best medicine – especially preventive medicine. If you eat plenty of fruits and vegetables and other healthy items you have the
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Tomatidine in Green Tomatoes Fights Aging
If you’re like me, you not only want to live as long as you can, you want to be as strong and healthy as possible as you age. You want more years, and you want them to be good years.Well, I’m happy
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How to Keep Stem Cells Younger
If scientists ever discover the elusive fountain of youth, that fountain will have to rejuvenate one particular group of cells that will make us all ageless.These cells are the body’s workhorses with
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This Natural Molecule Ranks High Above All Others for Adding Years to Life
The close relationship between depressed levels of this natural peptide and the progression of aging could hardly be more convincing.As a potent antioxidant and detoxifier, with key roles in the
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Balancing Fats In Your Diet To Fight Aging
To fight the effects of aging, you have to eat the right kinds of fats.Studies show beyond doubt that the cells in your body function better and keep you healthier when they get a balance of the
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How to Get Your Body to Make the Fountain-of-Youth Hormone
Your body contains a huge gland that, under the right circumstances, produces a hormone that’s remarkably powerful at fighting the aging process.This hormone helps your muscles stay stronger, keeps
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This Vitamin Could Help You Live Longer
Wouldn’t it be great if you could just take a vitamin that would turn on your longevity genes – the part of your DNA that helps you live longer?Well, guess what. You can!Research shows that there’s a
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Astaxanthin Turns on a Longevity Gene
It seems like some folks have just plain won the longevity gene lottery. They get to live to be a hundred because they inherited DNA from their parents that keeps them spry, alert and mentally sound
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Three Things that Will Add Years to Your Life (And One More that’s a Lot Easier!)
According to an April 2017 report from Texas A&M University, scientists have identified three ways to give yourself a longer life: Drastically cut calorie intake; Restrict the amount of
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Regenerative Medicine: Don't Just Look Younger, Become Younger in Every Cell
Everyone undergoes the aging process, known as “senescence” or biological aging. As time goes by, our cells lose their ability to divide and grow, and so bones and tissues begin to
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Study Shows Drugs Don’t Do Much For Back Pain
It may be a first-line treatment, but acetaminophen (the active ingredient in Tylenol, and other brands) is just about useless when it comes to relief of low back pain.That was the conclusion