In The United States alone, consumers spend about $7,5 billion a year on vitamins and dietary supplements, driven by the hope that these bright pills and powders will help us become younger, live longer, or at least clean the body and improve our health. There is still no conclusive scientific agreement on the true value…
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In 2005 Dan Buetntner published his article “The secrets of longevity” where he first mentioned “blue zones”. This name he gave to places on Earth where people live longer and reach their 90’s more often. In the world there are 5 blue zones: Italian island Sardinia, Japanese island Okinawa, Loma Linda city in California, Nicoya…
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On September 16, 2017, Talinda Bennington, Linkin Park singer’s widow, uploaded a video. In this video, her husband Chester Bennington is having a great time laughing with his son and friends, tasting gummy candies and behaving as usual. 36 hours later, Chester committed suicide and Talinda wrote that she “shows it so you know that…
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Great Britain, as it is known, is an island, and in some sense, its second name can be the Island of Well-Being. It has a high index of personal safety, well-being, income and longevity. The average life expectancy in Great Britain is 81 years: 83 years for women and 79 years for men. At the…
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The concept itself contains a kind of spell against old age: “vita” (from Latin) means life and “aucto” standing for “continuously increasing, multiplying”. This word describes the mechanisms resisting the processes of aging and targeting the preservation of vitality, but first and foremost, it deals with psychological health. Biologically, vitauct manifests itself in the body's…
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Only think about it: we have never had a privilege to live so long as we live today. It was not until 1,5 centuries ago when the lifespan started growing. Penicillin, then research in the disease prevention, vaccination and the achievements in microbiology have had an immense, decisive impact on our victory over infectious diseases,…
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