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It is very common–even if it is not necessary–to see that the blood pressure is increasing with age.   With medications, blood pressure usually comes down, but it may still not be as low as we would like it to be. Blood pressure medications also comes with side effects. What else can...

"The world can be a stressful place, and that is most likely not going to change anytime soon. The solution is to get to a state where we are not affected much by things that cause most people to react with anxiety. Is that possible or just wishful thinking?  ...

Increased oxidative stress has been documented in the frontal cortex in individuals with Alzheimer’s disease and in patients with mild cognitive impairment (Ansari, MA 2010).  One of the emerging causative factors associated with Alzheimer’s pathology is oxidative stress. This AD-related increase in oxidative stress has been attributed to decreased levels...

It is common knowledge that having high blood sugar levels is damaging to our health, but in what way is it harmful to us?   Having high blood glucose levels causes oxidation of glucose and a reaction causing glycation of proteins.  These reactions cause tissue damage and create a lot...

"A telomere is a region of repetitive nucleotides consisting of DNA and RNA at the end of a chromosome that protects the chromosome from deterioration. Shorter telomeres are known to determine cell longevity and shorter telomeres lead to a shorter lifespan.  Telomeres can therefore give us information on how fast...

Alongside oxidative stress and inflammation, altered cholesterol metabolism and hypercholesterolemia also significantly contribute to neuronal damage and to the progression of Alzheimer’s disease (Gamba P, et.al., 2015). Levels of oxysterols derived from cholesterol oxidation and inflammatory mediators have been found to be increased in the brains of Alzheimer’s patients (Testa...

Research shows adding one food reduces the risk for heart attacks by 38%. Sometimes you can get big benefits by making small changes. There are several studies showing that just adding legumes to your meals can lower your cardiovascular risk. The results of this particular study found that only 1...

You would most likely prefer to feel happy and excited about life and ready to get going to accomplish your goals when you wake up. Do you think almost everybody feels that way? No, that is not the case, because depression is the second leading cause of disability, and it...

One of the impressive health benefits of flax seeds is the ability to decrease blood pressure (Rodriguez-Leyva D, et.al., 2013). In a double-blinded, placebo-controlled study, 30 g of flax seeds daily for 6 months reduced the systolic blood pressure of 10 mm Hg and the diastolic blood pressure with 7...

The process of atherosclerosis is a risk factor for cardiovascular disease and involves deposits of fat and especially LDL cholesterol into the blood vessel wall (Salisbury D, Bronas U, 2014). These researchers state that when the LDL cholesterol gets deposited into the vascular wall it can oxidize and cause injury...

Wouldn’t it be nice if you could express your genes in a way that made you feel better? If you could do it both quickly and easily, that would be great. I think everybody agrees on that. According to this research, you can actually do that (Chacko SA, et al....

  When 9,820 study participants were tested for blood magnesium levels, this is what was found. The participants with low magnesium levels had increased atherosclerosis (Kieboom BC, et al. 2016). The carotid intima media thickness was increased, that’s the inner layer of the blood vessel wall. There seems, however, to...

    Osteoarthritis is a very common condition, and we don’t have to be very old before we can detect signs of cartilage degeneration. Hip and knee osteoarthritis is considered one of the leading causes of disability (Cross M, et al. 2014). In addition to inflammation, which is probably the...

Glutathione is one of the most important substances in the body, and it’s found for the most part in your cells. It plays important roles in the antioxidant defense, nutrient metabolism, and it regulates cellular events including gene expression (Wu G, et al. 2004). Glutathione is also involved in the...

Have you noticed that you don’t remember things as easily as you used to? If you have, you are not alone. As we live longer now, and also because most people don’t have the best diet and lifestyle, dementia and Alzheimer’s disease are getting to be more and more common....

Yes they can. Oxidative stress is recognized as an important factor in the creation of cardiovascular disease. The following research is interesting because the participants were 114 healthy non-smokers without any known atherosclerosis (Ashfaq S, et al. 2006). Oxidative stress was estimated by measuring blood levels of glutathione, it’s oxidized...