Calorie Restriction

Reprinted with permission of Life Extension
How long we live may not be determined by what we eat so much as how much we eat. Of all the potential antiaging approaches, none have so far shown the promise of caloric restriction. Over the past 75 years, many studies have shown that caloric restriction extends life span [...]

Osteoporosis

The benefits of a healthy diet and exercise for people with osteoporosis are widely accepted. However, most conventional medical sources touch upon only calcium and vitamin D when it comes to nutrients that help reduce the risk of osteoporosis. In reality, researchers are discovering that bone health and remodeling are complex processes that are influenced [...]

Rebuttal to Recent Attacks Against Dietary Supplements

Have you recently been seeing a lot of anti-supplement sentiment in the media lately? Just so you’ll have both sides of the debate, check out the Life Extension Foundation’s rebuttal.
Rebuttal to Recent Attacks Against Dietary Supplements

Life Extension Mix

We carry many supplements here at the office, but the most popular by far is the Life Extension Mix multivitamin capsule. This vitamin is probably the highest quality multi on the market, and at our price of only $75 for 490 capsules, the best value as well! The recommended serving size is 14 capsules a day, but most of our patients take 6 per day. Our patients swear by this vitamin, too, recommend it to friends and family, and say that they’ve never had a vitamin increase their energy level and overall health like this one does.

Read more about this supplement on the Life Extension Foundation website, and look over the list of ingredients below:

Vitamin D may lower risk of developing diabetes [from Life Extension Foundation]

A review published online on March 13, 2008 in the journal Archives of Disease in Childhood concluded that vitamin D supplementation in infancy may be protective against the development of type 1 diabetes.
For the current review, C. S. Zipitis, of the Stockport NHS Foundation Trust in Stockport, and A. K. Akobeng, of Booth Hall Children’s [...]

Magnesium associated with protection from stroke in male smokers [from the Life Extension Foundation]

The March 10, 2008 issue of the AMA journal Archives of Internal Medicine revealed the finding of researchers at the Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm, Sweden, that men who smoke may acquire some protection against stroke by consuming greater amounts of the mineral magnesium.

The current study included 26,556 participants in the Alpha-Tocopherol, Beta- Carotene Cancer Prevention [...]