Health & Fitness : Aging

Using the latest knowledge on how the brain ages to help us feel younger and healthier. If there is one thing that determines how fully we may live at an older age, it is how well our brain works. Yet until now, the issue of how the brain ages and what we can do about it has remained largely unexplored. In Keep Your Brain Young , two of the world's most prominent brain doctors, Guy McKhann and Marilyn Albert, explain all of the normal changes that can affect the brain as we age. more...

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A Life Complete explains how the choices we make in midlife can become distilled and irreversible by the time we reach our last years. Having worked intimately and rewardingly with countless people in the last years of their lives, psychological counselor and ordained minister Sallirae Henderson offers a practical plan for healing in middle age so we can avoid elderly regret, unexpressed grief, and unresolved spiritual issues before it's too late. more...

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52 invigorating ideas for adding more life to your years. Scientists now believe that a human's true lifespan is between 110 and 120 years. Live Longer helps readers approach those triple digits and feel better than they ever dreamed by fighting off illness, cleaning up their lifestyles, defusing their genetic time bombs, and determining their ''real age''-and then lowering it. Ideas range from the ordinary to the extreme:. - Idea #4: Boost your immune system. - Idea #10: Time for an oil change?. - Idea #22: Walk the walk. - Idea #26: The sleep solution. - Idea #39: Save your skin. - Idea #43: Brain gym more...

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From baseball Hall of Fame and All Star Ozzie Smith to heavyweight champion Riddick Bowe and All-Pro tackle Lomas Brown, top professional athletes have turned to Mackie Shilstone for more than twenty-five years when they've needed to take their performance to the next level. So have business legends and many other male and female professionals who need a real performance edge. The reason is simple: Shilstone's no-nonsense approach and his unique training methods get results. more...

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The decision making process that underlies ovarian hormone therapy (HT) is fallible. The question is whether or not physicians should suggest; should one take estrogen or progestin or some other combination of related hormones to women during the menopausal period, when women are deciding about whether to go on hormone therapy for diverse reasons. This decision affects many women in this country and around the world, and is an important factor serving to show what forces influence medical decision-making. Two recent large-scale studies, one here (Women??'s Health Initiative or WHI) and the other in Great Britain, cast a negative light on the use of hormone therapy. Both have received considerable attention in the media. Thus, the decision for women to go on hormone therapy (HT) remains controversial. There is an historical oscillation of beliefs related in part to expectations of the medicinal value of HT over longer-term use beyond the initial peri-menonpausal period. Studies thought to resolve issues surrounding the efficacy of HT were perhaps over-stated. Confusion still permeates the decision making with regard to HT. Over zealous advertising, and exaggerated understanding of the results (negative or positive) undermines patient and physician decision making. more...

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