Health and Fitness
She Said Her Hair Hurt…
By Al Sears, MD PAIN… In my work, I’ve seen more kinds than I can count. Joint pain… back pain… headache… stomachache… eye pain… tooth pain… earache… stiff, aching neck pain… labor pain… kidney stone pain… One patient even told me her hair hurt! Believe me, I could go on. But my point is this……
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As little as six minutes of vigorous exercise a day can improve your sex life.
The key is blood flow. Short bursts of exertion ramp up blood flow far beyond anything you could get from aerobic exercise. Here’s how: The University of Rochester reports that vigorous exercise causes an increase in blood flow, boosting the supply of nitric oxide in your body.1 Nitric oxide is critical in getting an erection.…
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Randolph Frederick “Randy” Pausch (October 23, 1960 – July 25, 2008) was an American professor of computer science and human-computer interaction and design at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Pausch learned that he had a terminal case of pancreatic cancer in September 2006. He gave an upbeat lecture entitled “The Last Lecture: Really…
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This Is Your Brain on Margarine
From Dr. Al Sears There’s now another reason to avoid margarine. It can make you stupid. According to researchers at the University of Auckland, children who ate margarine every day had significantly lower IQ scores by the age of three-and-a-half than those who did not.1 And children who were underweight at birth had scores that…
Read MoreA 30-year study shows endurance exercise leads to a common heart problem.
Yesterday Dr. Al Sears was a guest on The Ageless Sisters and spoke about heart endurance exercises. He explained the difference between cardiovascular endurance and short bursts of intense exertion. To listen go to http://www.blogtalkradio.com/theagelesssisters Here’s the most important thing about exercise for your heart… Endurance training, like cardiovascular endurance (“cardio” for short), is not…
Read MoreThe Ageless Sisters interview Al Sears MD
Today, The Ageless Sisters, interviewed anti-aging guru Al Sears, MD. Not only has he authored several books that deal with curing your heart – not a broken heart but one that is suffering from over-weight issues and loss of energy. He is passionate about rebuilding our heart muscle and our lungs so that we live…
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No matter how difficult the challenges you might be facing, keep in mind that some of the greatest people who’ve lived have overcome incredible obstacles and hardships on their paths to success.
Read MoreLighten Up with Humor, Play, and Pleasure
© John W Travis M.D., M.P.H. The process of becoming healthier can be presented as such serious business that you lose much of the humor and joy of living that characterize wellbeing. Many books about health are filled with predictions of dire consequences for failure to follow particular methods, horror stories of what certain foods…
Read MoreDe Niro urges actors to snub surgery
Robert De Niro has called on his contemporaries to accept the aging process, and commends Meryl Streep for shunning cosmetic surgery. The legendary Taxi Driver actor is famous for his rugged features, and insists he would never contemplate going under the knife to rid his face of wrinkles. And he is urging older stars to…
Read MoreSay Goodbye to Underarm Deodorant!
A few weeks ago Cynthia read that Milk of Magnesia could stop underarm odor and wetness. She was skeptical but decided that hey, why not give it a try…so off to Rite-Aid she went, bought the smallest blue bottle and began using this preparation with only three ingredients. Great news – this works and…
Read MoreCynthia highly recommends this product OraMd!
I highly recommend the product OraMd! This is an all natural product that works to enhance your gum and mouth health. I have used it for years and my dental hygienist is extremely pleased with my dental health. In the last few years there has been no mention of gum disease nor any scraping or…
Read MoreFive Reasons Not To Take Anti-Depressant Drugs
by Lennard Davis, New York Times Journalist and author For the past five years, and in my recent book OBSESSION: A HISTORY, I have been questioning the effectiveness of Prozac-like drugs known as SSRIs. I’ve pointed out that when the drugs first came out in the early 1990’s there was a wildly enthusiastic uptake in…
Read MoreOlder Adults Need Less Sleep
How much sleep we need is largely a mystery, and sleep seems tougher to come by as we age. Many studies — often funded by the pharmaceutical industry — have suggested that we’re all sleep-deprived zombies, risking our health for lack of shut-eye. But new research in the U.K. confirms previous indications that older people…
Read MoreThe youth jab: It’s illegal and untested, maybe even dangerous – but that hasn’t stopped the Hollywood A-list using Genotropin
Originally developed to help address development disorders, a drug called somatropin (also sold as the branded drug, Genotropin) is being touted as the ultimate weapon against ageing and the elixir of youth. Devotees claim it can do everything from reducing body fat and increasing muscle mass to reversing the signs of ageing. But critics say…
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