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Almost everyone deals with negative stress -- there's pressure in relationships with co-workers, friends and family, and often, related to finances. When you add the physical stress caused by smoking, excess drinking, diabetes, obesity, sleep apnea or certain medications to the mix, there's a good chance that over time your systolic (the top ...Read more

You're at high risk for Type 2 diabetes if you're diagnosed with prediabetes, are overweight or obese, have a family history of Type 2 diabetes, are physically active less than three times a week, have non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD -- now called MASLD), or have had gestational diabetes or given birth to a baby who weighed over 9 ...Read more

It's shocking that a recent study in Nature Medicine found that less than 10% of folks achieve healthy aging -- that is, living to age 70 without developing a chronic disease.

The most common chronic disease is cardiovascular disease (CVD). To avoid premature aging, you want to stay young at heart -- physically and emotionally. And according to...Read more

If you're at risk for Type 2 diabetes -- because of genetics and/or lifestyle choices -- do you do strength training? Chances are you don't. Overall, only about 35% of men and 27% of women get in two or more strength-building workouts a week, and one study found that 88% of folks with Type 2 diabetes do NOT do any resistance training.

That's a ...Read more

Every year, approximately 120,000 Americans under age 50 suffer a stroke -- often with no obvious risk factors, until now. A study published in the journal Stroke looked at 1,000 people ages 18 to 49 -- about half had suffered an ischemic (clot-caused) stroke that seemed to come out of the blue, the others were healthy. It found that having one ...Read more

Hardly anyone realizes that around 2 million men in the U.S. have osteoporosis and another 16 million are at an increased risk for "brittle bone" disease because of low bone mass. The risk factors that men have include low testosterone levels, alcohol misuse, taking steroids (either for medical reasons or off the books) and/or smoking. And guys ...Read more

Almost 100 million Americans have prediabetes. If most of them convert to full-blown Type 2 diabetes, that's an individual and public health crisis of unimaginable proportions. But many folks can make a U-turn, increase their insulin sensitivity and slash their risk for Type 2 diabetes.

A new study in the European Journal of Endocrinology ...Read more

Let me make it clear: I'm talking to you about the association of Type 2 diabetes with increased cancer risk, not to scare you, but to incentivize you to stick up for yourself, take charge of your future health, and embrace a longer, younger, happier life. You have to recognize life's potential potholes to successfully drive around them. So, let...Read more

Around a third of Americans ages 65 to 74 have hearing loss and it affects about half of folks age 75 and older. That sets them up for a variety of health problems. Not only do hearing problems increase the risk of depression and dementia, but they up the risk of heart failure by 128%.

Research published in the journal Heart found that the ...Read more

Perimenopause is the time when hormone fluctuations -- and the associated symptoms -- mean you're heading to the complete cessation of your periods, AKA menopause. It often starts in your mid-40s and lasts eight to 10 years, but how each person experiences it can vary as wildly as the symptoms.

Contending with those symptoms, which include hot ...Read more

If something smells fishy to you --well, you're lucky. Being able to discern odors turns out to be an important component of good health, helping you avoid malnutrition, depression and early death!

Unfortunately, lots of folks have lost their ability to discriminate between smells or to smell much at all. Around 60% of folks who have had COVID-...Read more

ACL (anterior cruciate ligament) injuries are more common in women than men -- and you see the toll it takes on female soccer players. Megan Rapinoe suffered three ACL injuries during her career. It's also common when females play basketball, softball, and volleyball -- for fun, in school, or professionally. More than three-quarters of the tears...Read more

If you're not controlling your blood pressure, weight, blood sugar and/or cholesterol levels, and don't get enough sleep, exercise, or have time with your posse and a sense of purpose, you've come up with a formula for some serious age-related brain diseases. Other habits that contribute to brain-dimming diseases include excess alcohol and ...Read more

We've all run into situations or statements that we find hard to swallow -- but for up to 700,000 folks every year, its food and drink that cause the problem. The condition, called dysphagia, can trigger coughing while eating and force liquid and food to come back into the throat or out of your nose or mouth.

We each swallow (when we can) 600 ...Read more