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Recent Longevity News for the seven days ending 2/25/04: Wiping out wrinkles - MSNBC, 2/25/04 - "And in December, the FDA OK'd Restylane, the first drug in a new class of fillers known as hyaluronic acids. Restylane contains a naturally occurring component of skin that serves as a lubricant and shock absorber in joints. It also doesn't require skin testing and the results can last six to nine months or more, twice as long as collagen" HDL: The "Quit" Cholesterol - Physician's Weekly, 2/23/04 - "for every 1 mg/dL increase in HDL, risk for a CAD event is reduced by 2% in men and 3% in women ... It hasn't gotten the same attention as LDL partly because there haven't been good medicines for raising it ... Niacin is, according to Dr. Rader, “…the best HDL-raising agent currently available.”" - See inositol hexanicotinate (no flush niacin) at iHerb. 'Good' Carbs Cut Heart Disease Risk - HealthDay, 2/23/04 - "collected data on 91,058 men and 245,186 women ... For every 10 grams of cereal fiber consumed a day, the risk for death from heart disease was lowered by 25 percent. For every 10 grams of fruit fiber consumer daily, the risk dropped 30 percent" Antioxidant-Rich Diet May Prevent Diabetes - WebMD, 2/20/04 - "people whose diets had the highest levels vitamin E were 30% less likely to develop type 2 diabetes than those who ate the least amounts of the antioxidant ... people who ate a lot of carotenoids, a type of antioxidant found in colorful fruits and vegetables, also had a lower risk of developing type 2 diabetes"
Antioxidant May Help Lower Blood Pressure - WebMD,
2/20/04 - "people with high blood
pressure who took the supplement, called
Pycnogenol, were able to lower their daily dose of blood pressure-lowering
medications by more than 30% ... researchers looked at the effects of daily
supplementation with 100 milligrams of
Pycnogenol" - Some claim
that grape seed extract is identical to Pycnogenol without the patent mark-up.
See
iHerb or
Vitacost
Cod
Liver Oil May Delay Osteoarthritis - HealthDay,
2/20/04 - "86 percent of the arthritis
patients who took 1,000-milligram capsules of extra-high-strength
cod liver oil a day had no levels, or
significantly reduced levels, of the enzymes that cause cartilage damage"
- See iHerb
or
Vitacost Testosterone Decline May Add to Impairment in Alzheimer's and Parkinson's - Medscape, 2/20/04 - "Testosterone deficiency, a treatable condition commonly seen in aging men, has been linked to PD and AD ... In normal subjects, low testosterone levels are associated with cognitive and neuropsychiatric symptoms" Pathogenesis of Essential Hypertension May Involve Insulin Resistance - Doctor's Guide, 2/20/04 - "insulin resistance may be implicated in the pathogenesis of essential hypertension, possibly involving mechanisms such as endothelial dysfunction" Herbal Combo Effective for Mild Depression - Clinical Psychiatry News, 2/04 - "84% of patients who received the herbal preparation had a 50% reduction in the Hamilton Depression (HAM-D) rating scale scores vs. 18% among those on placebo ... Each patient received 360 mg/day of St. John's wort, 168 mg/day of valerian, and 192 mg/day of passion flower" Counseling on Exercise Should Become Routine in Psychiatry - Clinical Psychiatry News, 2/04 - "But despite a large body of literature suggesting improvements in depression and anxiety with regular aerobic exercise—above and beyond its vast general medical benefit—such counseling has not been incorporated into routine psychiatry practice" Abstracts from this week's Doctor's Guide Nutrition/Dietetics: Metabolic syndrome x: an inflammatory condition? - Curr Hypertens Rep. 2004 Feb;6(1):66-73 - "This suggests that metabolic syndrome X is a low-grade, systemic, inflammatory condition. Hence, instituting anti-inflammatory measures might be beneficial in preventing or halting the progress of metabolic syndrome X in high-risk populations" Affiliates (I could sure use some sales. Click here for more stores): |
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