Posted on: March 5, 2025 Posted by: Michele Lee Comments: 0

How to trigger your heart’s waste disposal system and why

Just imagine your home if you didn’t take out your trash for a month. You wouldn’t be able to get a lot done with all the excess garbage lying around the floor. This is precisely what happens to your body when its “trash removal system” fails. But when that happens, it’s more than just an inconvenience. An interruption in how your body takes care of cellular trash could mean an…

Posted on: March 5, 2025 Posted by: Michele Lee Comments: 0

A ‘persistent’ feeling linked to fatty liver disease

Loneliness has reached alarming levels among American adults, with nearly half admitting to experiencing it. The severity of this condition varies across age groups, but when it’s persistent, it’s a precursor to a host of serious health issues… These include obesity, physical inactivity, a heightened risk of cardiovascular disease, dementia, stroke, depression, anxiety, and premature death. The longer a person is lonely, the more likely they are to experience some…

Posted on: March 5, 2025 Posted by: Michele Lee Comments: 0

Missing micronutrients are a setup for diabetes

It’s no secret that a healthy diet is key not only to preventing type 2 diabetes but also to managing the condition to avoid long-term complications. However, a new study is revealing that people with diabetes, by and large, suffer from deficiencies in micronutrients that could leave their bodies suffering from a “hidden hunger.” Here’s what the researchers discovered, along with the number one micronutrient they say affects six in…

Posted on: March 4, 2025 Posted by: Michele Lee Comments: 0

Harms of microplastics linked to heart failure

Microplastics, though invisible to the naked eye, pose a grave threat to our bodies and health, the extent of which is beyond measure. Microplastics carry endocrine-disrupting chemicals through your bloodstream, but that’s not all… Microplastics are a kind of ‘magnet’ for environmental pollutants, concentrating them on their surfaces, ‘ferrying’ them through our digestive tract and releasing them in a concentrated form in areas throughout the body where they can cause…

Posted on: March 4, 2025 Posted by: Michele Lee Comments: 0

The price your brain pays for not taking vitamins

Not too long ago, I reported here about a large-scale study showing that a multivitamin could guard people over 60 from cognitive decline and memory loss. Now, that data has been combined with a second study, and the results have been confirmed. If you’re over 60 and not taking a daily vitamin, this should convince you to start. Because if you don’t, the price your brain could pay is faster…

Posted on: March 4, 2025 Posted by: Michele Lee Comments: 0

What happens when sleep aids clog the brain’s waste drain

Good sleep is vital not only to your overall health but also to the health of your brain. In fact, quality sleep has been found to reduce your risk of cognitive decline and dementia as you age. However, sleep problems can creep up with age, stealing those hours that allow your brain to reset. Because of this, many of us turn to sleep medications for help. Unfortunately, new research is…

Posted on: March 4, 2025 Posted by: Michele Lee Comments: 0

Metabolic syndrome’s link to enlarged prostate

Benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH), or enlarged prostate, is a telltale sign of aging in men. One out of every two men between the ages of 51 and 60 have BPH, and the numbers only rise as they get older. About 70 percent of men ages 60 to 69 and around 80 percent of men ages 70 and older experience BPH. As common as BPH is, experts are still somewhat baffled…

Posted on: March 4, 2025 Posted by: Michele Lee Comments: 0

Luteolin kept hair from graying

Gray hair is often associated with growing older. But there are some people (like me) who started going noticeably gray at a very young age. Thankfully, I’ve maintained my natural color through the magic of hair dye for decades. But I’m a little less eager to visit the hair salon because of evidence linking regular use of hair dye with an increase in breast cancer risk. Wouldn’t it be great…

Posted on: March 1, 2025 Posted by: Michele Lee Comments: 0

The kitchen appliance that fattens your wallet

When was the last time you took a handful of money from your wallet and put it in the trash? With the current high cost of food, every time you toss out your leftovers or accidentally let something “go bad,” you’re essentially throwing away your hard-earned money. But it doesn’t have to be this way. A recent study from Ohio State University has shown that the simple answer is making…

Posted on: March 1, 2025 Posted by: Michele Lee Comments: 0

How to activate brown fat for endurance and longevity

Body fat has long been seen as a bad thing. Too much body fat means obesity, and that means a higher risk of cardiometabolic disease. But you may not know that there is more than one type of body fat, and they are not created equal… White fat, or adipose tissue, is the kind that stores energy and becomes problematic when there’s too much of it in the body. However,…