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3 Environmental Factors that Aren’t Helping Your Wrinkles

Overexposure to the sun.
While we all covet the flawless golden tan, countless studies have shown that overexposure to the sun not only causes most of the wrinkles and age spots on our faces, but leads to skin cancer, one of the most prevalent forms of cancer in the United States. Protect your skin and face [...]

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Fountain of Youth: Resveratrol Might Be Close!

In recent months, we’ve heard a lot about the red wine ingredient resveratrol. It’s been mentioned as a treatment for everything from heart disease to osteoarthritis to cancer. In fact, in January 2009, the CBS TV News program 60 Minutes interviewed researchers who proclaimed a modern-day fountain of youth “ resveratrol.
The mythical fountain of youth [...]

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10 Things to Expect as You Age

Gray hair, sagging skin and wrinkles are only a few of the joys that accompany getting older. However, it doesn’t end there! The following are 10 things you may or may not have expected to escort you through your later years:

Shrinking. As we age, our bones reduce in size and [...]

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Reversing Alzheimer’s Disease: Resveratrol Shows Promise

Alzheimer’s disease (AD), a progressive and fatal brain disorder, is presently the seventh-leading cause of death in the United States. As the population of older people worldwide continues to increase, Alzheimer’s has become an urgent healthcare problem, and the focus of a great deal of scientific research. Among recent discoveries that may have [...]

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Resveratrol and Quercetin: Are They Better Together?

Resveratrol seems to be everywhere in the news these days. But another plant-based chemical, quercetin, is beginning to attract attention from researchers as well. Recent studies suggest that resveratrol and quercetin might actually be more effective when taken together.
Both resveratrol and quercetin are polyphenols, a group of antioxidant chemicals found in many fruits and vegetables. [...]

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Anti Aging: Resveratrol May Help

In the early years of the 21st century, Dr. David Sinclair of Harvard Medical School and Christoph Westphal, a venture capitalist, co-founded Sirtris Pharmaceuticals to continue Sinclair’s research on anti aging resveratrol effects. Sinclair had discovered that the red wine ingredient resveratrol seemed to have life-extending powers in mice. This might explain, he thought, the [...]

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