Vitamins&supplements: Why They Don’t Work
In The United States alone, consumers spend about $7,5 billion a year on vitamins and dietary supplements, driven by the hope that these bright pills and powders will help us become younger, live longer, or at least clean the body and improve our health. There is still no conclusive scientific agreement on the true value…
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The Bright Ending: What Science Has to Say About Aging?
Thanks to science and medicine, as well as technical advances, we have started to live longer. From the year 1950 until 2002, the likelihood to live up to 80-90 years for men and women has almost doubled. In the year 1950, only 16% of women and 12% of men could expect to light 90 candles…
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Serotonin and Dopamine: What Do We Know About the “Happy” Hormones?
Every one of us has our own individual concept of happiness, and no one has come up with a universal definition. Yet, all of us are capable of intuitively experiencing it, distinguishing between being happy and unhappy. It is common knowledge today that happiness depends not only on a capricious fate and some mysterious existential…
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Italy. The Homeland of Supercentenarians
In 2005 Dan Buettner published his article “The secrets of longevity,” where he first mentioned “blue zones.” This name he gave to places on Earth where people live longer and reach their 90s more often. In the world, there are five blue zones: the Italian island Sardinia, the Japanese island Okinawa, Loma Linda city in…
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Aging and Emotions: How to Cope with Inevitable Feelings
Just two hundred years ago, the world was pretty simple: people were born, grew up, created families, and grew older. Illnesses and external factors could intervene at any stage, so humanity wasn’t concerned with organizing a long and active life for aging. Today, medical advancements promise us long active years ahead, so it’s crucial to…
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