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  Iron storage disease, or hemochromatosis, affects 10-15% of the population, and perhaps even more if you know how to diagnose it. Iron overload increases free radical damage via the Fenton reaction. Hepcidin is a hormone that regulates iron levels by increasing the absorption of iron. The is new research showing that at least experimentally it is possible...

Medical residents lose their empathy for patients over time according to an article in the Journal of General Internal Medicine. However, they can regain some of this by taking a short course in empathy that rescusitates this feeling that they had when they went into medicine. Part of this is because of the "scientific" emphasis of their training and...

  The human body is 70% water and we need about 2 quarts a day. As we age we lose our thirst signal. The minerals in water are important and where it comes from matters. Water processing is complicated and important.        

We're bombarded with messages that there's something wrong with us. Aging adds to the list! There's a huge industry that feeds on this. Personality and soul are better measures of self worth. Beauty is in the mind too.

In a study out of Johns Hopkins University that was published in the December 2014 issue of the Journal of Molecular Biology, researchers found that the amount of mitochondrial DNA found in blood directly correlated with frailty and longevity 10-15 years before symptoms appeared. Patients were followed over 10-20 years looking at the amount of mitochondrial DNA...

While we all age, we do it at different rates depending on how well we take care of ourselves. Our chronological age (the number of years we have) is often quite different from our biologial age (how well our biology functions). There are examples of people who are over 80 but still function very well and others where someone 10 years old has the physiological...

Not everyone ages at the same rate. Maintaining good movement is one key to staying young. The human body is accommodating; if you treat it with respect it becomes responsive. It does not involve forcing.