It would not be uncommon to feel like you have a bunch of different middle-aged problems but in reality it could be just one troublesome problem!. This unfortunate physical change is caused by foreign chemicals that behave like estrogen in your body. And this hormonal imbalance can lower your testosterone-to-estrogen ratio and throw your body out of whack.
Cooking the joy out of red meat damages its protein. Damaged protein contributes to heart disease, diabetes, and kidney failure. Enjoy your food more and slow down the aging and disease process by taking care of how you cook your food.
Some major soda manufacturers are introducing vitamin-fortified versions of their brands. The notion that drinking soda can be good for you if you just stuff a few vitamins into the can is ludicrous. When it comes to beverages, there are plenty of much healthier options available.
Every year hundreds of thousands of people go blind because of macular degeneration. Age-related macular degeneration (AMD) is the leading cause of blindness in the U.S. Fortunately, if you get the right nutrients, you can go a long way to preventing it.
As a man, you do face age-related hormonal changes. They may not be as drastic and as sudden as the changes a woman experiences during menopause, but you do experience a gradual change over a long period of time. And this change can take a real toll on your health.
With all the heat and humidity, it’s easy for people to become dehydrated and crucial minerals like potassium and sodium to become dangerously out of balance. It’s important to keep the right balance of these two minerals to maintain good energy, muscle and nerve function. Let me explain.
We need to be aware of how much salt we’re taking in daily to ensure that we stay near a healthy level.
However, a “healthy level” for salt intake has become a controversial subject. The FDA states we should keep our salt intake levels under 2400 mg a day while the World Health Organization states an unbelievably high 6,000 mg a day! The Dietary Guidelines for Americans recommends about 1200-1500 mg is best if you are over the age of 50. Who’s right?
People who wake up hungry tend to have a healthy metabolism. People who skip breakfast tend to have higher blood pressure and more risk factors for heart disease. They also tend to be on the road to diabetes whether they know it or not. Research in this area is in its preliminary stages. Early studies back up what I see regularly in my practice—people who don’t eat breakfast are more susceptible to obesity and chronic diseases.
Your body uses antioxidants to clean up free radicals. But to reach everywhere that clean-up is needed, you need some antioxidants that work in a watery environment and others that work in a fatty environment. Also, different free radicals are neutralized best by specific antioxidants. In other words, you need a range of antioxidants to really take care of the free radicals in your body.
By the time you are sixty—if you’re a man—there’s a fifty-fifty chance that you’ll be suffering from an enlarged prostate. If you live long enough, your chances climb to 90 percent. An enlarged prostate—a condition called benign prostate hyperplasia—is a non-cancerous swelling of the prostate. As your prostate begins to swell, you’ll find that you need to make more frequent trips to the bathroom, your urine stream will be weak, and you’ll have a hard time finishing what you started… if you know what I mean.
I know you’ve heard about the heart healthy benefits of red wine. Research shows that people who drink a glass of red wine with dinner most days can lower their risk of heart disease by as much as 62%. But the healthy benefits of red wine don’t stop at the heart.
I do think there’s a time and place when energy drinks can be useful, especially during high exercise moments when you can become extremely dehydrated. But on the flipside these drinks pack in quite a lot of calories with their loaded high fructose corn syrup. Because of that, these drinks are definitely not something I’d put into the “everyday consumption” category. I also think there are better alternatives for a natural energy boost.