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Menopausal Transition: A Review for Health Care Practitioners

The menopausal transition is a significant and inevitable phase in a woman's life, marking the end of reproductive capability. It is a complex process that involves dramatic hormonal shifts and a variety of physical and emotional symptoms. This transition is typically divided into two stages: perimenopause, the phase leading up to menopause when hormonal fluctuations begin, and post menopause, which starts after a woman has experienced 12 consecutive months without a menstrual period. During this...

Ageing Joint Health Lifestyle Medicine

What Is Dry Fasting and Why You Should Stretch?

Two recent papers, building on small but interesting areas of focus for health management are featured in this article. Stretching and balance as indicators of life expectancy and dry fasting as a method of metabolic health and weight management. Dry fasting, which involves abstaining from both food and water, has gained popularity on platforms like TikTok and YouTube. Proponents claim various health benefits, but at this stage in the understanding of its effects, it is wise to advise caution, particularly...

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Inhibit Il-11 and live longer?

A study in Nature in July 2024[1], raised the idea that blocking the interleukin 11 (IL-11) by using an IL-11 antibody could be a proposition for a healthy increase in lifespan, based on the outcomes in their experimental mouse subjects. As you would expect, IL-11 has a role in the induction and promotion of inflammation an underlying defensive mechanism that is amplified as we age and release more damaged proteins and other molecules in what is known as sterile inflammation. This soup of cellular...

Ageing Digestive Health

Turmeric and its Polyphenol Curcumin is Calling You

This natural polyphenol is universally known as the “wonder drug of life” [1] and has a long history of medicinal applications; 5,000 (Ayurveda) and 2,000 (Atharveda) years, respectively[2]. Throughout ancient times in the Far East, turmeric was used to treat inflammatory conditions of various organs, for liver and digestive tract problems, and for wound healing. In the 1970s, the first research on the yellow polyphenolic pigment from the Curcuma longa L. (turmeric) rhizome known as curcumin and...

Ageing Bone Health Joint Health

Collagen

Collagen, an important protein produced by the body, is the main structural protein found in the skin, tendon, and bone. The word collagen originates from the Greek word “kola” meaning gum and “gen” meaning producing. Collagen is considered one of the most useful biomaterials, due to its low immunogenicity and high biocompatibility. According to some research, nearly a third of the proteins in humans and other mammals are composed of 28 different types of collagen, from type I collagen, which is...

Ageing Immune Health Diets

Anti-aging Diets – do they work?

A proposed test to measure inflammation, from which an ‘inflammatory age’ may be determined has recently become available. The test involves the drawing of a blood sample and then assessing the levels of various markers of inflammation using artificial intelligence. This is then used to determine whether someone is at risk of developing age-related disorders such as cardiovascular and neurodegenerative disease. The clock measures ‘biological age’, which takes health into consideration and can be...

Ageing Cardiovascular Health Diets

Aging? – How are you Managing Health

By 2030, the number of people aged 60 and older will grow by more than 50 percent, from 900 million in 2015 to 1.4 billion[1]. That is just over 8 years away at the time of writing this piece! Further, noncommunicable diseases, those more closely linked to social circumstances, lifestyle and behaviour, such as cardiovascular diseases (e.g. heart attacks and stroke), cancers, chronic respiratory diseases (e.g.chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and asthma) and diabetes, will account for 71 percent...

Menopausal Transition: A Review for Health Care Practitioners

What Is Dry Fasting and Why You Should Stretch?

Inhibit Il-11 and live longer?

Turmeric and its Polyphenol Curcumin is Calling You

Collagen

Anti-aging Diets – do they work?

Aging? – How are you Managing Health

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