It turns out that along with all of the many benefits of consuming omega-3 fats, new research shows that it can help you live longer too.
Cardiologists from the University of California, San Francisco, and other hospitals measured telomere length over five years in 608 patients who had coronary-artery blockage and previous heart attacks. Researchers found that people with high levels of omega-3 fatty acids in their white blood cells experienced significantly less shortening of telomeres over five years, as compared with patients with lower omega-3 levels.
Telomeres are the part of your …

A study that tracked genetic mutations through the human equivalent of about 5,000 years has demonstrated for the first time that oxidative DNA damage is a primary cause of the process of mutation – the fuel for evolution but also a leading cause of aging, cancer and other diseases.
The research, just published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, also indicated that natural selection is affecting the parts of the genome that don’t contain genes – supposedly “junk” DNA that increasingly appears to have important roles in life processes …

The levels of insulin in your blood may be the single most important chemical level to your health and wellness.   Most are aware that insulin has something to do with regulating blood sugar, but what is less well known is that insulin has its fingers in almost every organ system in the body, and as the regulation and then levels of insulin in the blood get thrown off, its effects are generally detrimental, and in fact, most of the diseases of aging have direct relationships to the balance of this …

1.  Limit free-radical formation
 
The most potent generator of free-radicals in your body is respiration, i.e. breathing.  As far as free radical creators that you can do something about, inflammation is the most potent.  This means that not only does inflammation cause the discomfort of pain and dysfunction; it is also causing damage to your whole body, degrading your overall health and causing you to age more rapidly.  Now, I would never promote the regular use of anti-inflammatory medications like ibuprofen or acetametaphin, these have their own host of harmful side-effects …

·       Free radicals what they are and what they do
At this point in our story it is important to understand what a free radical is, and what it does.
A free radical is a highly reactive molecule with an unpaired electron in its outer shell.  What this means is that it is a particle floating around in your system looking to steal an electron from some other molecule.  Free radicals are generally not too picky, they will take an electron usually from the first molecule they bump into, usually the membrane …

Cholesterol story,

At some time in our recent history it came to the awareness of the medical community that the incidence of heart attacks and heart disease were increasing.  This encouraged research into what was the cause of heart attacks, and what were the warning signs and medical tests that could be done to detect the likelihood of you having a heart attack sometime soon. 
Following the usual reductionist process the researchers took dead bodies of those who died from HA and dissected the hearts and surrounding blood vessels.  What they discovered …