New developments...

in medicine, exercise physiology, brain science, and physical therapy are rapidly transforming our view of how the human body can me maintained at optimal levels.  One quick example: at this very moment, you're reading, learning, you're in the process of growing brand new dendrites, the nerve branches that connect brain cells as new learning takes place. Follow this blog and you'll learn how to grow new dendrites to replace brain cells die during the natural aging process.  Prior to these developments, people aged without accelerated dendritic growth. As years passed, evidence of diminished mental capacity became visible.  No more. With mentally challenging activities like playing instruments, learning new languages, new dendrite growth is stimulated at rates that can maintain high level functioning far beyond 100.


BRAIN MAY AGE FASTER IN PEOPLE WHOSE HEARTS PUMP LESS BLOOD. American Heart Association Rapid Access Journal Report
Click on Study Highlights below to read entire article.


Study highlights:
Keeping your heart healthy may slow down brain aging.
Cardiac index, a measure of heart health, is linked to diminishing brain volume, a sign of brain aging.
Brains may age faster in people whose hearts pump less blood.

IN ANOTHER STUDY:
Researchers say that that aerobic and resistance training exercise is a promising strategy for combating cognitive decline and that this been shown to enhance mental performance in people as they age. 


http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmedhealth/behindtheheadlines/news/2012-04-24-can-exercise-stop-mental-decline/


IN CONCLUSION: In order to optimize life, it's increasingly important to include exercise 3-5 times a week, for a better experience in your coming years....

Old School.

Think of the oldest person you've ever seen. Zoom in on that image. Now dissolve that old school image because a very high quality of life is now available to you, one that will allow you to hike, dance the tango, ski or engage in other physical activities on your 120th birthday and beyond while enjoying a high quality of life along the way.


The speaker, Aubrey de Grey is Chief Science Officer of the SENS Foundation (Strategies for Engineered Negligible Senescence). SENS is one of the many sources you'll be hearing from in the years to come.

Here is a prime example of Grey's point of view.
Kevin Stone treats joint injury using the new developments in bio-medicine: reconstructing damaged tissue or replacing whole joint parts, with lab-grown ligaments and cartilage, hereby ushering in the transition from hardware prosthetics like an artificial knee to FDA approved bio replacement using your own stem cells. These developments will prevent arthritis from immobilizing millions of active people.




As you follow this blog, you'll pick up clues that will position you for a lifetime where every day is better than the last. In the clip below, Daniel Kraft, pediatric cancer doctor, introduces the idea of banking your younger, healthier stems cells for use in the future.