Category: Aging

Understanding Epigenetics: Unlocking the Secrets of Gene Expression

Posted on July 8, 2024 By Dr. Ron Hunninghake, MD What is Epigenetics? Epigenetics is the study of how changes in gene activity can occur without any change ...

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The Mind-Body Connection: Improving Men’s Health Through Neuroplasticity and Blood Flow

Posted on June 10, 2024 By Dr. Hayley Nelson, PhD Imagine a life where your mind remains sharp, your body resilient, and your overall health robust. For many ...

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Empowered Healing: Navigating Hormonal Imbalances and Healing

Posted on May 20, 2024   By Jasmin Murphy For as long as I can remember, my relationship with my body and hormones has been intricate and challenging. It ...

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Navigating the Dual Roles of Caregiving: Your Health First

Posted on April 9, 2024 By Jasmin Murphy For those in the sandwich generation, juggling the care of your aging parents while supporting your own children, life ...

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The Complex Web of Senior Dementia Care: Gen X Style

Posted on March 12, 2024 By Staci Moore, Guest Columnist The role of a caregiver in today’s society often falls on the shoulders of the so-called sandwich ...

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Foods to Benefit Cognition

Posted on April 3, 2023 By Laura Vasquez, MSN, APRN, NP-C A variety of foods can help protect your cognitive health and act in very specific ways in the body. ...

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Cognitive Impairment Symptoms Can Vary

Posted on April 3, 2023 A diagnosis of cognitive impairment can be disorienting and devastating, not only for the patient but for friends and family. ...

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PhysioAge Provides a Benchmark for Overall Health and Aging

Posted on August 25, 2022 The Riordan Clinic’s PhysioAge program is a good fit for anyone interested in their health and well-being. Chronological age isn’t as ...

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Maintaining Vascular Health as We Age

Posted on September 15, 2021 Author: Michael (Mike) Shaw PA-C, ABAAHP There’s a quote that says you are only as old as your arteries and I say there is a lot of ...

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Preventing Pain as We Age

Posted on September 15, 2021 Author: Dustin Moffitt, ND Does it often feel like every passing birthday brings new aches and pains? These pains not only affect how ...

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My Journey with Tai Chi

Posted on August 3, 2021 Author: David Scott It began in 1975. In exchange for teaching him songwriting and guitar, a Tai Chi instructor offered me lessons. He ...

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Muscle as Medicine

Posted on March 8, 2021 Author: Dustin Moffitt, ND A three-letter word we all dread, O-L-D. The feeling of time growing on our bodies as our youth trails ...

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Your physiological age may be different than your chronological age

Posted on November 9, 2020 The first step to aging well is knowing how well you are aging. You may be 50 years old, but your PhysioAge could be 40 — or well over ...

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Anti-Aging from the Inside Out: An Introduction to NAD+

Posted on November 9, 2020 Author: Michael (Mike) Shaw, PA-C, ABAAHP Nicotinamide Adenine Dinucleotide, or NAD+ for short, is a coenzyme found inside every cell ...

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How Well are You Aging?

Posted on July 1, 2020 The first step to aging well is knowing how well you’re aging. You may be 50 years old, but your PhysioAge could be 40 — or well over ...

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A New Model Of Aging

Posted on July 1, 2020 Author: Gael Wheeler, DO OK, time for a pop quiz! What is the one thing that every single human being is doing at this very moment? ...

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The Miracle Molecule

Posted on June 10, 2020 Author: Michael (Mike) Shaw, PA-C, ABAAHP The chemical properties of Nitric Oxide were first characterized in 1772. Ferid Murad first ...

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Fatigue and the Role of Mitochondrial Dysfunction

Posted on June 2, 2020 Author: Gael Wheeler, DO Mitochondria are tiny factories in our cells that create ATP, providing energy for the cells’ functions. The ...

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Healthy Aging A-Z: Vitamin A

Posted on January 8, 2020 by Gael Wheeler, DO One of the first changes we may notice as we age is a decrease in visual acuity. Vitamin A is essential for the ...

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Nature’s Anti-Aging Mineral: Sulfur

Posted on July 2, 2019 By Dr. Anne Zauderer Minerals are all around us on the earth. They are found in the soil and taken up by the roots of plants and ...

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DYNAMIC AGING: Overcoming Obstacles and Adding Life to your Years

Posted on January 2, 2019 By Chris Quint, CPT, CSCS What if your lack of mobility isn’t due to your age but instead due to the number of years you haven’t been ...

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Brain Health: How to Keep Your Mind Healthy Your Whole Life

Posted on May 1, 2015 By Dr. Anne Zauderer Our mind is a precious thing. On a very basic level, it is what keeps us alive by regulating our basic functions: ...

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The Cure to Alzheimer’s Disease

Posted on March 1, 2015 By Dr. Jennifer Kaumeyer I could write for days on this topic giving you information that you could probably just ‘google’. Instead, I ...

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The Cure to Alzheimer’s Disease

Posted on March 1, 2015 By Dr. Jennifer Kaumeyer I could write for days on this topic giving you information that you could probably just ‘google’. Instead, I ...

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Your Hormones: Why You Need Them, Why You Can’t Live Without Them

Posted on July 1, 2014 By Mike Bauerschmidt, M.D., C.C.T We human beings are a curious bunch. By “curious” I mean, not only that we want to know why things ...

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Osteoporosis

Posted on October 1, 2002 By Ron Hunninghake, M.D. Osteoporosis is an epidemic problem. One third of American women will have a fracture related to osteoporosis ...

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Aging and the Loss of Energy

Posted on February 2, 2002 By James A. Jackson, Ph.D. To find the reasons that we age and lose our energy we need to answer several questions. The first question ...

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Counteracting Cataracts

Posted on October 2, 1997 By Donald R. Davis, Ph.D. Cataracts are a leading, but treatable, cause of vision loss occurring primarily in elderly persons. Vision ...

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Aging, A New Look

Posted on September 2, 1996 By Richard Lewis We all want to live along time. At the same time, we want to live a vital, full life to the end. A recent issue of ...

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Antioxidant Vitamins and B-Carotene in Disease Prevention

Posted on February 1, 1996 By James A. Jackson, Ph.D. Many studies have shown the relationship between free radical generation (mainly oxidants) and some ...

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DHEA: What Doesn’t It Do?

Posted on November 1, 1995 By Ron Hunninghake, M.D. F or the past thirty years, research has been accumulating on the topic of dehydroepiandrosterone or, for ...

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