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Longevity Magazine highlights health, wellness, anti-aging, inspirational weight loss stories, and healthy tips.
Regular Exercise Can Reverse Brain Damage and Reduce Anxiety
Introduction The human brain is unusual in that it undergoes massive changes throughout development. Even though the brain has mostly stopped developing by around the age of 25, it continues to change shape and function in response to experience and behavior. Exercise has been shown to have a wide range of benefits for the brain, including reducing stress, improving alertness, and boosting memory. Researchers from University College London recently found that regular exercise may even reverse damage to brain cells. It was already known that exercise boosts a chemical called brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF), which is released throughout the body during physical activity. It acts as a sort of fertilizer for the brain, causing new cells to grow and existing neurons to form new connections
By Willie Wun3 years ago in Longevity
Building Blocks of Progesterone
In a healthy menstrual cycle, we have a certain pattern to the way hormone interact with each other and the health impacts they have on the body. We talk a lot about estrogen in the menstrual health space, but we often forget to talk about progesterone.
By Emily the Period RD3 years ago in Longevity
Stop Threatening Weight Gain
Let me start by acknowledging the privilege I hold in the weight-inclusive space. I am a thin person, and up to this current date I have always been a thin person. While I have had my own struggles with a disordered relationship with my body and food, I have never at any point had a provider make a comment about my weight, a store not have my size or go to a location that could not accommodate my body. I cannot truly speak to the experience of all bodies, especially the most marginalized, because I have never lived those experiences and there’s a possibility that I never will. It is my hope, as a weight-inclusive and non-diet provider, to make space for individuals to process the harms of diet culture and fatphobia and move towards a lifestyle that nourishes them physically, mentally and emotionally.
By Emily the Period RD3 years ago in Longevity
A Guide to Slowing Down Aging (Part 2)
Aside from the low-tech approaches mentioned in Part 1, which include healthy nutrition, exercise, and a variety of other lifestyle changes, many researchers all over the world are developing innovative therapies that can significantly slow down and even moderately roll back aging.
By Willie Wun3 years ago in Longevity
Do You Need a Certification to Be a Weight Loss Consultant?
Given the breakneck speed at which obesity is going in the direction of becoming a global epidemic, many programs are being designed to prevent and cure it. Aspirants of a wide variety of backgrounds are getting trained to become weight loss consultants so they can develop effective and customized solutions to this issue of grave concern. The training helps the aspirants understand the known and unknown factors contributing to obesity and design various non-medical ways and plans to help treat and manage the condition. As most people face difficulties losing weight, getting a weight loss certification can allow you to gain the knowledge required to help clients bring a sustainable change in their body composition that can be maintained.
By Sudhir Singh3 years ago in Longevity
Minor changes in activity that may protect your brain from age-related decline.
Beginning a brand-new routine can be daunting at first. Trying to find joy in what you are doing, trying to stack new habits with old ones you already do consistently, and, perhaps most importantly, starting slow and small can all help.
By Willie Wun3 years ago in Longevity
