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Can you reverse the progression of prostate cancer with lifestyle changes?
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Your fat and nervous system talk to each other.
Posted by: Didrik Sopler
We used to think that fat was only a way for the body to store energy, in other words, store excess calories. That is far from the truth. We are now learning that the white fat is metabolically active, that’s the fat we gain when the body is left with...
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What happens to your cardiovascular risk when you compare butter with olive oil?
Posted by: Didrik Sopler
Most of the fat in butter is saturated and most of the fat in olive oil comes from monounsaturated fat. That’s why butter and olive oil were compared in this study in an attempt to figure out how saturated fat and unsaturated fat from a vegetable source affected cardiovascular risk...
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Do you have an increased risk for sciatica?
Posted by: Didrik Sopler
Low back pain with pain down one leg can be very unpleasant and also interfere with your daily activities. It’s logical to think that heavy lifting on a regular basis is the reason why we develop this kind of problem. While excessive stress to the low back can cause problems,...
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Change what you eat and lower your blood pressure
Posted by: Didrik Sopler
There is more than one dietary factor that affects your blood pressure, but if you were to make only one change, you should reduce your sugar intake. Research lasting 8 weeks or more showed the greatest changes (Te Morenga LA, et al. 2014). Systolic blood pressure was in average reduced...
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Does protein affect your risk for cardiovascular disease?
Posted by: Didrik Sopler
We basically have 4 big categories of fat, monounsaturated fat (MUFA), polyunsaturated fat (PUFA), saturated fat and trans fat. Examples of MUFA are nuts. Examples of PUFA are vegetable oils, but also some nuts, especially walnuts and also omega 3 fat from fish and fish oil. The highest amount of...
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Can the type of fat you eat affect your memory?
Posted by: Didrik Sopler
We basically have 4 big categories of fat, monounsaturated fat (MUFA), polyunsaturated fat (PUFA), saturated fat and trans fat. Examples of MUFA are nuts. Examples of PUFA are vegetable oils, but also some nuts, especially walnuts and also omega 3 fat from fish and fish oil. The highest amount of...
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Your blood platelets can cause both blood clots and inflammation.
Posted by: Didrik Sopler
We know blood platelets form blood clots, but they are also involved in producing inflammation. Inflammation is a risk factor for cardiovascular disease and is especially dangerous when the endothelial cells (which lines the blood vessels) get inflamed. The platelets are involved in that. The platelets can also be involved...
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You can slow down your resting heart rate without exercising
Posted by: Didrik Sopler
It’s a well established fact that the better physically fit you are, the lower resting heart rate you will have. Exercise provide numerous benefits and this is one of them. A lower resting heart rate has been documented to lower the risk of death, so I really recommend you to...
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Assess your mortality risk yourself. It’s very easy
Posted by: Didrik Sopler
In the last article I wrote, I referred to research showing that low aerobic capacity was associated with increased mortality. To evaluate aerobic capacity the way they did it in those studies, you have to visit a clinic and have a so called stress test done. This may be both...
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What is a reliable way of accessing the risk of death?
Posted by: Didrik Sopler
Not all risk factors associated with an increased risk of dying have been evaluated long term. New research from Sweden has documented some interesting facts when accounting for traditional risk factors like smoking, high blood cholesterol and high arterial blood pressure (Ladenvall P, et al. 2016). This study followed men...
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Is alcohol really healthy?
Posted by: Didrik Sopler
For a while now alcohol has been promoted as healthy as long as it is consumed in moderation, 1-2 glasses of red wine a day or 1 drink a day. In particular, red wine is supposed to be healthy because of the resveratrol. Some people even believe getting the resveratrol...
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A quick way to improve bone density.
Posted by: Didrik Sopler
You probably know that resistance exercises help to stimulate bone growth, but what if you don’t want to lift weights? You need to do something because osteoporosis is a real thing not only for women, but also for men. You can actually stimulate bone growth very well without using any...
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Protect your nervous system.
Posted by: Didrik Sopler
There are many things that can damage the nervous system. I am going to cover the most common and important factors here. A good model to use is to look at what’s causing diabetic neuropathy. It’s very common, and even if you don’t have diabetes, you are affected by the...
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Omega 3 fatty acids and your arteries.
Posted by: Didrik Sopler
Arteries usually get stiffer as we get older. I review at a lot of research, and my conclusion is that it is not how many years you have lived that is the most important factor, but your lifestyle and nutritional habits. Eating healthy anti-inflammatory food and stressing your body regularly...
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This is a very important factor if you want to slow down your aging.
Posted by: Didrik Sopler, Ph.D., L.Ac.
Inflammation may be the most important factor affecting how we age, but inflammation is also directly tied to free radical damage. We cannot really separate the two since we will always have increased inflammation when we have increased free radical damage. Some times it can be difficult to tell what...
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Oxidative stress increases aging.
Posted by: Didrik Sopler, Ph.D., L.Ac.
Results of a large study suggests two mechanisms involved in the aging process (Zierer J, et al. 2016). The research involved 3,511 women and the results were replicated in an additional 904 participants. They found metabolites indicating increased oxidative stress due to alterations of the glutathione metabolism. This has previously...
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