Category: Anti-aging

Heart Rate Variability: Transform Stress Response, Increase Resilience, Boost Performance

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Image from the HeartMath Institute Website

In this posting, we discuss Heart Rate Variability (HRV) and its potential profound effects on general health – and specific health issues.

Overview

Here is an overview of the concept of HRV from the Tropos Therapeutic Center in Wichita, Kansas:

What is Heart Rate Variability and Why is it important?

Prior to the early 70’s, researchers believed that the brain was the control center for all organs in the body. Then some new research began to show that the heart has its own nervous system, its own intelligence, and that the brain and heart are in a two way communication link, influencing each other in a synchronized dance.

Heart rate variability (HRV) refers to the beat-to-beat alterations in heart rate or pulse. HRV is now understood to be reflective of inner emotional states and level of stress.

Research on HRV has shown that disturbed emotional states lead to increased disorder in the heart’s rhythms and in the autonomic nervous system, thereby adversely affecting the rest of the body. Alternately, positive emotions create increased harmony and coherence in heart rhythms. Increased coherence improves balance in the nervous system and the whole body’s functioning.

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How to Use Ketones for Longevity

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In this edition of my newsletter, we highlight an article from Ben Greenfield’s website: Ben Greenfield Fitness.

If you are not familiar with Ben’s website, it is definitely worth checking out: it is one of our favourite podcast sources.

This article highlights even more dramatic evidence regarding the profound health benefits of ketones, the ketogenic state and the Ketogenic diet.

Included is reference to recent published research from Reggie Veech, PhD who is one of the top ketosis researchers which suggests that being in a ketogenic state may influence longevity (in addition to quality of life).

In my opinion and based upon my clinical experience nothing works better to bring a patient’s metabolism back into balance from what I would refer to as “Diabesity Spectrum Metabolic Dysregulation”.

Following is Ben’s article.

From the article:

But I recently learned something about ketones that I never before fully realized, something that inspired me to begin knocking back a daily dose of beta-hydroxy-butyrate (BHB) ketone salts prior to my afternoon/early evening workouts -workouts that I’d normally, up until the recent past, enter into in a completely fasted state having not eaten lunch for the previous 4-6 hours.

The reason is because ketone bodies have now been proven to have some pretty potent anti-aging, longevity enhancing properties.

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Just Published: NAC (N-Acetyl Cysteine) as a Potential Solution for Osteoarthritis?

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I came across an interesting article on the Medical News Today website referencing a paper published in the Science Translational Medicine journal which suggests that NAC- N-Acetyl Cysteine may be an effective treatment modality for osteoarthritis.

The authors suggest that they expect that osteoarthritis is a multi-factorial process and the mechanism of action that they have identified may not provide a total solution to the osteoarthritis process however this article/paper may present us with a new treatment modality to deal with this health issue.

Most health care practitioners would agree that trying to treat osteoarthritis simply by consuming nutritional supplements is short sighted and this approach does not take into consideration a functional approach such as looking at factors like diet (inflammatory vs. anti-inflammatory), gut health, toxins etc.

Let’s quickly review some of the benefits of NAC:

Is Metformin An Anti-Aging Miracle?

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You have probably heard “The Buzz” – researchers, health care practitioners and the general public are starting to gobble down Metformin for its (supposedly) magical anti-aging benefits.

Some even refer to it as: “Vitamin M”.

But as we discuss in this edition of our newsletter, there is a dark side to Metformin.

I myself have never been a fan – and quite frankly I cannot see the rationale for using it when we have available such a fabulous range of medicinal herbs and a concentrate which provide berberine compounds which provide all the benefits of Metformin – in addition to some which Metformin does not (such as cardiovascular benefits)

Following is a great article by Chandler Marrs, PhD from the website:

Hormones Matter on this very topic.

In this article, she discusses in some detail some of the health issues that Metformin consumption can cause.

Here is a summary of the main points she discusses – plus her concluding commentary:

  • Metformin and Vitamin B12 Deficiency
  • Metformin, Pregnancy and Maternal and Fetal Complications
  • Metformin Inhibits Exercise-Induced Insulin Sensitivity
  • Metformin and Mitochondrial Damage
  • Metformin Alters Immune Reactivity via the Mitochondria
  • Metformin and the Statins: Beware

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