In April, of this year 2019, the big boss of Instagram took the stage at Facebook’s annual developer conference to give the announcement of upcoming changes to the massively popular photo-sharing app. Mr. Adam Mosseri revealed that Instagram (which Facebook is the owner) would be testing a version of the social media service that will…
In early 2018, I made one of the most powerful decisions of my entire business life. I decided to invest a few thousand dollars in an online business program. This was after being pitched for over an hour on a live webinar, and then they call, me on the cell phone, the call was from…
Until very recently, the best clues we had concerning the factors involved in growing old, did not come from healthily aging people but from a less sexy species, are you ready, like yeast. These organisms offered scientists the very first hints about how much of aging actually was due to genes and innate biology and…
Over the course of our lifetime, telomeres are burning down like a candle wick, leaving the chromosomes vulnerable to damage and starting our unwanted aging process. Investigators have understood the basics of telomeres since early 1978, when then postdoctoral fellow Elizabeth Blackburn, now at UCSF, first mapped their structure and later, with her partner in…
The exact mechanisms by which stress erodes brain functioning still remain unclear, somewhat a mystery, though the research suggests it’s related to the ability of exercise to maintain telomere length, is a big key factor in aging.Regardless my friends, of the mechanism at play, the correlation should be very clear. It comes down to exercising,…
Can you remember, when you used to be bragging about working a full day after a long night of partying? Because who in the world needs sleep anyway? Actually my friends, we all do, the shut-eye is as important and crucial to our well-being as exercising, eating a healthy diet, and not smoking tobacco, says…
Heart disease is the No. 1 killer in America and increasingly, around our world. In a 2014 study published in the New England Journal of Medicine, researchers split more than 6,000 people- all at elevated risk for heart disease- into three groups. One ate a low-fat diet, and two ate variations of a Mediterranean diet….
Most people tend to think of meat and dairy products when they think of protein and your body. However, nuts, fish, beans, and eggs and so many other foods contain this macro-nutrient, which is essential for repair and muscle growth. But while our bodies require protein, many of us just may be eating way too…
As we Americans live longer, we are increasingly looking to scientists like Fotuhi for guidance on how to keep our brains as fit as our bodies while we age. In a sense, research on cognitive decline is on the cutting edge. Researchers have conducted many of the most important studies in this field, just in…
Female athletes are absolutely done asking nicely for the equality, my God, they were promised this nearly 50 years ago when Title IX became the law of the land, WTF is now officially an all-out roar. We all have recently seen the U.S. Women’s National Hockey Team and the U.S. women’s national soccer team demand…