Living To 150

My blood pressure is down. Not that it has ever been worryingly high; on the rare occasions I have taken it, it’s been around 125/85. That is pretty good.
A friend has hypertension, so I bought a blood pressure monitor to keep an eye on it.
After a week or so I took my own [...]

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Inflammation is shown, in this image, affecting some of the major joints. We all know and understand this type.
But Generalised Inflammation is something that we all need to be aware of - whether or not we have aches and pains.
Generalised Inflammation is present in many people - and they rarely know about it.
This insidious [...]

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Researchers in Canada found that orange juice taken alongside a drug for hayfever - fexofenadine - reduced its absorption by half.  It is likely that there would be similar effects on many other drugs.
The researchers suggested that the spike in blood sugar was the mechanism which caused the reduction in drug absorption. In [...]

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Researchers at Georgia Tech, Atlanta have managed to target cancer cells by attaching magnetic nanoparticles into them.
Having attached the magnetic nanoparticles, a magnet applied at the skin surface attracts the cancer cells to the skin surface. In this position it is much easier to deal with them in a safe way.
The trick used [...]

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The Alexander Technique in action
The Alexander Technique has very successfully treated recurring back pain in a study of 500 people. The British Medical Journal reports the study.
Researchers in the UK universities of Southampton and Bristol asked doctors to select a total of 500 patients for the study. They had a history of back pain [...]

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Metabolites are substances formed either during, or at the end of, one process of our metabolism. There provide a valuable key to how our body is functioning, or how it responds to introduced elements, such as drugs or food.
There are thousands of the metabolites being formed every minute, so analysing them is a mammoth [...]

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Just as humans have evolved to have hair, 2 legs and a nose, we have evolved to die at an age between 80 and 120. Currently, an absolute maximum age of 120 is inbuilt due to a component of every cell nucleus called the telomere, which shortens every time the cell divides. Eventually the cell [...]

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Reliable and valuable research on health issues is not easy to come by - and I want it every day, whether for myself or to help customers of my herbal company, Specialist Herbal Supplies.
One of the websites I go back to again and again is that of Life Extension Foundation. If you have a [...]

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From my blood tests for longevity, the overall test results I have received are good.
Kidney and liver show no malfunction. There are good to very good signs that cancer, heart disease and arthritic tendencies are not present. Prostate signs are good.
Thyroid indications are good. Vitamins B12 and D are good. Glycation level is good. (If [...]

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I plan to interpret my own blood tests, using my studies of anatomy and some biochemistry in my career, LEF (Life Extension Foundation) advice line; the books I have, particularly by Philip Miller (Life Extension Revolution), Internet searches; and advice from a knowledgeable friend in the UK. I am not an expert in blood test [...]

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