Where Does Aging Begin?

2024 April 26

This post is sponsored by ChromaDex. Regardless, we only recommend products or services that we believe will be helpful for our readers. All insights and expressed opinions are our own. —Geri Brin

After spending decades with someone you cherish, whether you’re married or not, you care about his or her health as much as your own!

My sister and her husband feel that way, and each of them always tries to watch out for the other’s well-being. They walk mostly every day. They eat nutritious meals. They take all the right tests to stay on top of their heart, colon, bladder, and eye health.

When I told my sister Shelley recently about a supplement that could help reduce the effects of natural aging and help her and her husband, Rusty, because it helps me live healthier and feel younger, she was skeptical. Sure, when you hear something as fantastic as this, you’re bound to ask yourself, “Is this real?” After all, so many supplement claims seem downright absurd, even if Dr. Oz is making them! I also was dubious at first about this new “age-defying” supplement.

So I filled in Shelley about the interview I had with Dr. Charles Brenner, the Stanford-educated PhD who discovered a vitamin that actually could help reduce the effects of aging and rejuvenate energy production in the cell. Dr. Brenner’s credentials impressed me (he has a doctorate degree in the biology of cancer), but when he gave me a non-scientific explanation of his findings, I was even more intrigued and excited. (more…)

An Anti-Aging Pill– For Real

2024 April 26

This is a “sponsored post.” ChromaDex compensated FOF with an advertising sponsorship to write it. Regardless, we only recommend products or services that we believe will be helpful for our readers. All insights and expressed opinions are our own. —Geri Brin

No matter how many anti-aging lotions and potions I rub into my skin, it’s unlikely that I’m going to wake up one day soon, glance in the mirror, and see my 30-old-face staring back at me. But the burgeoning nutritional supplement market, estimated at a whopping $20+ billion, consistently promises it can help me live healthier–and feel younger. Although I’d be willing to keep my crow’s feet and laugh lines, in exchange for feeling as tip-top as I did decades ago, so many supplement claims seem downright absurd!

It got my attention, however, when I heard that a Stanford-educated PhD, with his advanced degree in cancer biology, had discovered a vitamin that actually could reduce the effects of aging and rejuvenate energy production in the cell. Was this for real?

I wanted to learn more, so I arranged for an interview with Dr. Charles Brenner, the scientist behind this discovery, and asked him to explain his discovery in non-scientific terms. If a highly educated scientist hoped to teach me anything, he had to make it simple. Biology was my worst subject in high school!

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Meredith Vieira Links Fractures And Postmenopausal Osteoporosis

2024 April 26

This post is sponsored by Radius Health, Inc.

A woman I know fell in her apartment from a standing height when she was in her late 50s, and suffered serious bone fractures in one arm that required surgery. She attributed the fall to the slippery floor, which certainly may have been the case. But osteoporosis was the reason her bones broke.

Nearly 1 in 2 women over the age of 50 will suffer some sort of fracture as a result of osteoporosis. Osteoporosis-related fractures also cause more women 55 and older to be hospitalized each year in the US than breast cancer, heart attacks or strokes.

“It’s high time for women to educate themselves about the warning signs of osteoporosis,” said Meredith Vieira, the Emmy Award-winning talk show host, whose mother developed the disease and who is at risk of developing it herself. Joining forces with Radius Health, Meredith is making bone health a personal priority, and is on a mission for other postmenopausal women to be proactive and make it their priority, too. (more…)

An Anti-Aging Pill– For Real

2024 April 26

It got my attention, however, when I heard that a Stanford-educated PhD, with his advanced degree in cancer biology, had discovered a vitamin that actually could reduce the effects of aging and prompt our cells to act like they did when we were younger. Was this for real?

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The Exciting Supplement That’s Improving My Bone Density

2024 April 26

This is a “sponsored post.” AlgaeCal compensated FOF with an advertising sponsorship to write it. Regardless, we only recommend products or services that we believe will be helpful for our readers. All insights and expressed opinions are our own. —Geri Brin

My new house has “good bones,” but I’m afraid I can’t say the same for the bones in my body.

Like my mother, I have osteoporosis. Thankfully, I’ve never broken a bone, but I surely wasn’t going to take any chances, so I saw an endocrinologist, who prescribed a drug to increase my bone density, as well as an over-the-counter calcium supplement. Turns out that’s not such a great solution! (more…)