Browsing Tag: Aging

A satire on Old Age

Can yoga help reduce the stress that makes you look and feel older than your years? Does yoga help elevate your mood and make you mentally sharper? Will meditation enhance your spiritual outlook or give you a sense of peace and calm? As a Harvard neuro-scientist and a yoga practitioner for more than 40 years, I'm pleased to tell you the answers are a resounding "yes."

Earlier evidence out of UCLA suggested that meditating for years thickens the brain (in a good way) and strengthens the connections between brain cells. Now a further report by UCLA researchers suggests yet another benefit.

Katherine was in her eighties. Dr. Patwant Kaur would see her lying on her bed coming in and out of consciousness, not unlike many other patients around her. But there was something different about Katherine.

In a potentially fundamental advance, researchers have opened up a novel approach to combating the effects of aging with the discovery that a special category of cells, known as senescent cells, are bad actors that promote the aging of the tissues. Cleansing the body of the cells, they hope, could postpone many of the diseases of aging.

Just ask someone who has started to age if it's a myth or not. In my experience they'll say "No, it's real."

Vitamin D, found in food, supplements and produced by sun exposure, can help stave off the mental decline in old age,..