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Red Wine: The Key to Unlocking a Longer Life

Who would have thought that your glass of red wine with dinner could be keeping you healthy?  A study done by the Harvard Medical School and the National Institute of Aging showed that “heavy doses of red wine extract lowered the rate of diabetes, liver problems and other fat-related ill [...]

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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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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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