Outstanding book on controlling high blood sugar, or preventing it if you don't already have it.

What is normal blood sugar, and how does it vary during a 24-hour cycle?

How do you manage your blood sugar for optimum health and to reduce weight?

They are everywhere!

Just keep your blood sugar at 83.

There is so much noise in the diet/health space that it is hard to know what is real. When I talk with people about it, they are burned out.

The Longevity Diet is a book about calorie restriction and how to go about trying it. The authors are Brian Delaney, President of the Calorie Restriction Society, and Lisa Walford, the daughter or Dr Roy Walford who was one of the early proponents of calorie restriction for people...

Calorie restriction refers to feeding an organism less than it would like to eat, typically from 20% to 50% less. In many organisms, such as nematode worms, mice, and rats, calorie restricted diets can significantly increase lifespans...

There are a number of low-carb diets, such as Dr Atkins, that are promoted as causing your body to burn more fat and lose weight very quickly. These diets have you to go into ketosis and use fat as your primary energy source...

Better skin and slower aging by controlling your blood sugar

Ending Aging: The Rejuvenation Breakthroughs That Could Reverse Human Aging in Our Lifetime is a new book by Aubrey de Grey and Michael Rae. de Grey is a PhD biogerontologist whose goal is to repair age-related damage so that people now alive will be able to live healthy, indefinitely long lifetimes...

Your brain needs exercise to stay in shape. Dr Ryuta Kawashima is a professor of neuroscience and has done extensive fMRI (functional magentic resonance imaging) of people's brains while they perform different tasks...

If you only do one thing for your health and well-being, make sure you get enough omega-3's. If you only do two things, take resveratrol plus quercetin...

Get out of the rut.

I wrote an article about omega-3 yesterday, and I wanted to give some background for my recommendations. Omega-3's and omega-6's are called essential fatty acids (EFA's), because the body can't make them...

Want to feel better?

Biofeedback can be an extremely effective technique. There is a story about an Indian yogi who learned to raise the temperature of a spot on the back of his hand to 103 degrees by just meditating and thinking about it...

We've traditionally tied emotion to the heart: words and phrases such as heartbroken, heartfelt, a heart full of love. Then modern science came along, and we were taught that all emotions really come from the brain, and that the body is just what the brain uses to survive in the physical world, that the brain is in charge...