Sirtuins: DNA Handymen
Sirtuins are a family of proteins crucial for regulating various cellular processes essential to health and longevity. These proteins, dependent...
Alcohol consumption and overall health: Two sides of the same coin
Alcohol is consumed by more than half of the population in America and Europe, with an estimated 2.3 billion people...
Energy balance and its implication in health and disease
What is energy balance based on? Energy balance is based on the fundamental thermodynamic principle that energy cannot be destroyed...
Habit formation & its application to lifestyle patterns such as diet & exercise
We, as humans, are all creatures of habit. From drinking coffee in the morning to brushing our teeth before bed,...
Respiratory training: A neglected but significant training modality
Respiratory training is the deliberate modification of how we usually breathe throughout the day by implementing specific exercises and techniques...
Menstruation & Metabolism: Understanding the two for a better life.
Menstruation is the cyclical sloughing of the uterine lining caused by changes in the balance of hormones secreted through a...
How Breathing & Physical Health Interact
Humans have widely leveraged the connection between breathing and physical health throughout millennia as a healing tool for the disorders...
Exercise capacity and biological age: A powerful relationship
Regular physical activity at both the recreational and competitive levels contributes substantially to healthy aging and health-enhancing physiological adaptations by...
Gut microbiome as a modulator of longevity, health, and disease
The gut microbiome is a complex ecosystem predominantly found in the gastrointestinal (GI) tract. Compositional or functional changes within the...
Longevity & the steps to achieve it
Living a long and healthy life can be one of the most complicated goals. Most of us don’t know where...