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Can we stop the aging process, slow or even reverse the effects of aging skin and body? This is a puzzle that has many of them looking for answers for many years. Now, with advanced modern science breakthrough and discoveries every day, the answers become apparent for the youngest skin. Your daily life contributes to how you age and at what rate your body ages. Diet, environmental factors, exercise and topical products for skin care and skin treatment you choose, all affect how you are going to appear now and ten, twenty, thirty years later. Unsurprisingly, your lifestyle plays a role in how your ... Read Full Story

In a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled, 22-week study involving 400 patients with dementia, treatment with a gingko biloba extract (240 mg/d EGb 761®) was found to be associated with improvements in SKT test battery score and neuropsychiatric symptoms. In addition, the mean caregiver distress score reduced significantly among caregivers of patients in the intervention group, as compared to a worsening found among caregivers of patients on the placebo. Significant differences between the active and placebo groups were found for apathy/indifference, anxiety, irritability/lability, depression/dysphoria, and sleep/nighttime behavior. These results suggest that supplementing with an extract of gingko biloba such as the one used in this study ... Read Full Story

The body’s abnormal immune responses can damage brain and nerve cells, resulting in multiple sclerosis, muscle weakness as well as vision problems. In 2007, a study conducted by Johns Hopkins Hospital claimed that an eye test named optical coherence tomography (OCT) could be used to identify and monitor multiple sclerosis. OCT could be used to test health conditions of nerve cells and only cost one-tenth of the fees of performing magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). Israeli researchers pointed out in 2007 that children born during summer months were more likely to have severe nearsightedness because of longer, sunnier days. A comparison was made between babies ... Read Full Story

I’ve just received a couple of samples from PureRadiance, a new brand launched by a Al Sears MD. For a start, I like the approach: PureRadiance focuses on nutrients and actively avoids “parabens, carcinogens, pollutants and gasoline distillates that are commonly found in most of today’s cosmetics and skin care solutions”. Over the coming weeks I’ll be trying out the serum with new it ingredient, teprenone , that promises to stabilize our telomeres and the Infuse Hair Strengthener and Thickener ($49.95). There are plenty of botanicals that are said to help against hairloss, but one of the few that can summon research to prove ... Read Full Story

The FDA has warned about online flu scams. The best defense against preventing colds and flus is taking action and preventative measures. Annually in the US as many as 50 million people catch the flu, and over 200,000 people are hospitalized and 36,000 people die due to flu related complications (CDC) -This season is even more concerning because, in addition to the regular seasonal flu virus, the population faces the H1N1 (“Swine flu”) virus—for which we are currently in phase 6 of an influenza pandemic (WHO) -In addition, 1 billion colds will affect people at home and at work (Nat. Inst. of Allergy and ... Read Full Story