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Archive for the ‘Uncategorized’ CategoryAs a gerontologist, I have spent 20 years in the world of aging. I have witnessed and helped hundreds of people deal with the ravages of poor health and aging. I have seen super healthy 98 years olds, and I have seen miserable chronically ill 68 year olds. I can honestly say that for first 10 years I could not make rhyme or reason of how or why some people lived active youthful golden years and others did not. I mean I saw some of the obvious clues. (There are not very many 80 year old smokers, life-long exercisers tend to be limber their whole lives). And some people had great genetics. But for the vast majority of people, I could not see the life-style habits that made the difference between healthy aging, normal aging, and abnormal frail aging. But knowing what I learned at the University, I have been watching for certain clues. I began to see the things that people were doing that had a genuine effect on their health, and which things seemed to make no difference. The best guinea pig is my dad, who in his late 70s, has been an insulin injecting diabetic for 20 years and remains healthy and vibrant with light exercise (swimming at the YMCA), and supplements. Yes supplements!… Besides the genetically gifted people, those that stayed healthy into their late life where 1. those that consciously stayed active and 2. right behind that were those that took the right products – nutritional and vitamin supplements. Which makes perfect sense. Because there are only two proven anti-aging, life extending theories. Caloric Restriction and anti-oxidants. This is not my opinion, it is fact. Look it up! And when I say proven, I don't mean a fringe crack-pot's unsupportable claims, I mean scientifically studied and accepted by repeated research, theory. Based on that, I see people that take anti-oxidant supplements staying healthy and disease free, while others are succumbing to the ravages of time all around them. Consequently, I have researched the best anti-oxidants for the money. I take them myself, and I recommend them to my clients and friends. Recently, I have decided to personally endorse the same products that I research and take myself. My favorite is the ingredient that they have distilled from the skins of grapes. Its called Resveratrol. You may have seen the 60 minutes piece or read a story in the newspaper about it. Its usually touted as being the result of drinking red wine. But the truth has nothing to do with wine, and everything to do with grapes. If fact scientists have distilled greater concentrations of Resveratrol products other than grape skins. But before I ramble on, let me send you straight to a great offer (yes, if you order I will get rewarded), but it will not cost you more to order here, the price remains the same if you buy from me, or go to the site on your own. Please, just know that I found the product that I use first, then applied for the relationship, not other way around. Check it out. Do your on research. But try it!
Serotonin is a compound in the brain that promotes feelings of personal security, relaxation, and confidence. But startling research reveals that serotonin levels decline as we age! Fortunately, aging people, like you and I, may appreciably improve our health by restoring serotonin to youthful levels. The amino acid tryptophan is needed to produce serotonin in the brain, and while the amount of tryptophan in your typical diet meets basic metabolic requirements, it often fails to provide optimal brain serotonin levels. In fact, ever since the FDA restricted the importation of tryptophan for use in dietary supplements, there has been an upsurge in the percentage of overweight and obese Americans. One could argue that a widespread serotonin deficiency is at least partially responsible for the record number of depressed, sleep-deprived, and overweight individuals. It seems that everyone blames the reason we get sleepy after thanksgiving dinner on the tryptophan in the turkey. So we know it works for sleep. But what most people don’t know is that the tryptophan itself is not responsible, rather it is the way our bodies metabolize the tryptophan creating a surge in Serotonin that knocks us out if front of the football game. But do even the slightest research into depression and you will see the lack of Serotonin front and center, as the cause. In fact most prescription drugs for depression act to increase Serotonin. To a slightly lesser degree deficiencies of Serotonin play important roles in fatigue and weigh gain. Most importantly; as we age our brain produces less and less of it. So you can take expensive sleeping pills from your doctor but you still have not addressed your depression (or bluesy feelings), your weight gain, or your fatigue. In fact if you wanted to tackle all of these issues with a prescription, you are going to add a lot more pills to your regime…and their side-effects. Or you can supplement your diet with tryptophan. Fortunately, you can restore your serotonin to youthful levels with the proper supplements! You may have your favorite vitamin store. I get mine from the people at Life Extension. I like them because they don’t sell anything except the top-grade formulas and they are laser focused on Longevity issues for middle aged adults like yourself. They even produce a great magazine that they give away for free and other cool stuff. You can join here:
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