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Anti Ageing Tips

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Anti Ageing Tips

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 Here is a great  piece on anti ageing from Kathryn Danzey, the founder of Rejuvenated (the company responsible for the leading nutraceuticals Collagen Shots and Be Skinny Drink Me),developer of Beauty Business News, and manufacturer and supplier of the Diamond Touch Medical Grade Microdermabrasion system to the Medical and Beauty Industry.With over 37 years of experience within the beauty industry as a salon owner, trainer and more recently as brand development of product lines and beauty equipment sales, Kathryn asserts that she “believes that by sharing our passion for beauty we can change how we view the world, so that we can enjoy the unique appearance of the individual”.

Kathryn’s Tips:

1. Keep your cells hydrated! What took less than three weeks for the cells to go from formation to the surface can take over six weeks once we reach our 50′s, and as the cells take longer to get to the surface they become harder and flatter. Over time the skin becomes dehydrated and this dehydration is one of the main causes of cell ageing. Water carries oxygen to every single cell within the body, therefore it is important to get your eight glasses a day. If you struggle to drink eight glasses of water a day, try eating half a ripe cantaloupe melon or a handful of grapes and you will notice a change. It will be amazing how much more hydrated you’ll feel.

2. Stay young in your mind, one of the best things I’ve ever read was by Joanna Lumley – when asked about the fact that she did not seem to fear ageing, her simple comment was; ‘I don’t prefer the alternative.’ Go 10 years forward in your life and you will look back and think, ‘what was I worrying about, I looked really good’.  Enjoy who you are right now.

3. The skin is the largest body organ and it is also the gateway to a healthy body, so make sure to take care of every inch of your skin and not merely your face. Body brush everyday, towards the heart, to stimulate the circulation and lymphatic drainage, which will help the body to rid itself of waste. Moreover, a daily body brush can help to eliminate cellulite! Exfoliate at least once per week to slough off dead cells and stimulate new cell growth.

4. Have a good facial. Facials are a great way to relax and a good therapist will make you look revitalized and refreshed, as they stimulate lymphatic drainage and reduce puffiness.

5. Attain beauty from the inside out. The beauty industry is only just waking up to the fact that what you eat makes a difference to how you look. For years they have focussed on creams and lotions, then injectables but it makes sense that if we are using food to nutrient our body it will play a part in how effectively our cells reproduce. Healthy cells are happy cells and younger looking too.

We, at Rejuvenated, developed Collagen Shots on the basis of clinical trials done to support collagen levels in the body, the results have been fantastic and our sales have grown by word-of-mouth as customers found their skin was more hydrated and supple within a couple of weeks.

To find out more about Kathryn visit http://collagen-shots.com/, read her articles athttp://www.beautybusinessnews.com/author/kathrynbeautybusinessnews-com/, and follow her on twitterhttps://twitter.com/collagenshots/ https://twitter.com/beautybiznews

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Kathryn Danzey's Tips for Staying Younger For Longer

Isochronic Tones Can Stop the Ageing Process - Really?

Here is a fascinating video that plays Isochronic tones/binaural that apparently affect the ageing mechanism in the brain.

Isochronic tones are regular beats of a single tone used for brainwave entrainment. Similar to monaural beats, the interference pattern that produces the beat is outside the brain so headphones are not required for entrainment to be effective. They differ from monaural beats, which are constant sine wave pulses rather than entirely separate pulses of a single tone. As the contrast between noise and silence is more pronounced than the constant pulses of monaural beats, the stimulus is stronger and has a greater effect on brain entrainment.^[1

Isochronic tones work by emitting sound at regular intervals. This excites the thalamus and causes the brain to duplicate the frequency of the Isochronic tones, changing its thought patterns^[

 

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Isochronic Tones Can Stop the Ageing Process - Really?

Can Milk Thistle Protect Liver Cells?

Milk thistle is well known to protect liver cells from damaging toxins. Despite milk thistle’s frequent association with liver cell protection, the liver is not the only beneficiary of this popular supplement. Some relatively new studies have determined that the skin receives a similar protective benefit from milk thistle as the liver does.

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Liver Protection

The human liver is capable of recovering from an injury, but chronic liver disease repeatedly challenges this ability. When the rate of liver cell injury outpaces the liver’s regenerative capacity, scars form. Unfortunately, scarring in the liver can block blood flow – a problem that fosters even more damage to liver tissue. If this damaging cycle persists, severe scarring can render the liver no longer capable of performing all its duties. Thus, those who either have liver scarring or are at high risk of liver damage due to fat accumulation, hepatitis, excessive exposure to alcohol or toxins, or another liver disadvantage are encouraged to take action against further liver injury.

Milk thistle seed extract has been used for centuries to add a layer of protection to vulnerable liver cells. Experts have found that milk thistle:

• Strengthens the outer walls of liver cells to better resist injury


• Promotes the growth of healthy liver cells


• Fights oxidation – a process that damages liver cells

Decades of clinical trials indicate that silymarins, a group of potent antioxidants extracted from the seeds of milk thistle, are responsible for milk thistle’s therapeutic properties. Of the silymarins, silybin (also referred to as silibinin) has been shown to be the most effective constituent of silymarin for preserving liver health.

External Skin Protection

Guarding against ultraviolet radiation is the primary concern for keeping the skin healthy. To shield the skin from damage, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) suggest:

• seeking shade during the midday hours


• wearing clothing over exposed skin


• donning a wide-brimmed hat


• wearing UVA and UVB blocking sunglasses


• applying sunscreen


• avoiding indoor tanning

Most recommended skin protectors come in the form of soaps, lotions or creams designed to keep skin clean and moist while deflecting harmful radiation. According to Tina Alster, MD, clinical professor of dermatology at Georgetown University, a regimen including the following topical products helps protect the skin:

• Cream Cleanser – a cleanser that is not overly harsh or drying can help keep the skin stable and reduce the risk of irritation.


• Moisturizer Containing Sunblock – The American Academy of Dermatology recommends daily use of a sunscreen with a sun protection factor (SPF) of at least 15 that protects against both UVA and UVB rays. Makeup or foundations containing sunscreen often are not applied thickly or evenly enough to provide adequate protection.


• Anti-Aging Product at Night – Active ingredients to look for in an anti-aging cream include glycolic, ascorbic, or retinoic acid. Alster recommends using one or two of these products on an alternate night basis to help skin turnover more regularly. However, some anti-aging creams may increase skin sensitivity.

Internal Skin Protection

Skin is traditionally protected with topical creams or lotions, but researchers have found a non-traditional method that protects against skin damage as well. In addition to protecting liver cells, internal supplementation with milk thistle also seems to protect skin cells.

As published in the January 2013 edition of the journal Molecular Carcinogenesis, researchers from the University of Colorado Cancer Center found that silibinin:

• protects against skin cancer-causing ultraviolet-B (UVB) radiation by upping cell expression of a particular cell-repairing protein


• kills cells that have undergone mutations due to ultraviolet-A (UVA) radiation (a process that potentially leads to skin cancer)

These results support previous findings that show silibinin promotes destruction of cells damaged by UVA, but not healthy cells. According to senior study author Rajesh Agarwal, “When you have a cell affected by UV radiation, you either want to repair it or kill it so that it cannot go on to cause cancer. We show that silibinin does both.”

Although a great deal more research will be needed before dermatologists suggest milk thistle supplementation for their patients to ward off skin cancer, the evidence is compelling. The traditional approach for protecting the skin (avoiding the hot sun, covering exposed skin, wearing sunscreen) is vital to preserving the skin’s vitality. But silibinin seems to add another safeguard. Likely to become the focus of future dermatological study, silibinin not only protects and helps in the repair of liver cells – it also appears to offer a similar type of protective and reparative assistance to skin cells.

 

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Can Milk Thistle Protect Liver Cells?

Do Humans Age Like Yeast?

This is a very interesting video on an aspect of gene research.  By studying how yeast ages, MIT’s Leonard Guarente uncovered the gene that also controls how other organisms, and perhaps humans, grow old.

 

 

 

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Do Humans Age Like Yeast?

Johns Hopkins University scientists report that a simple 10-minute test for “frailty” designed to predict whether the elderly can withstand surgery and other physical stresses could be useful in assessing the increased risk of death and hospitalisation among kidney dialysis patients of any age.

In a study described in the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society and published online this week, Johns Hopkins investigators said dialysis patients deemed frail by the simple assessment were more than twice as likely to die within three years, and much more likely to be hospitalised repeatedly.

Results of the frailty test, which measures physiological reserve, suggest that kidney failure patients who submit to the long and arduous process of mechanical blood cleansing several days a week are undergoing a premature aging process detrimental to their health, the researchers say.

“More than 600,000 people are on dialysis and they have a wide range of mortality and hospitalisation risks,” said study leader Dr. Dorry L. Segev, an associate professor of surgery at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. “But we’re not very good at predicting who is at more – or less – risk for hospitalisation and death. This assessment tool gives us much better insights into which dialysis patients are at greater risk, so that their treatment can be tailored to minimize complications, hospitalisations or death.”

Dialysis machines do much of the work of damaged kidneys, cleansing the blood of waste and excess water. Dialysis cannot, however, fully compensate for the blood pressure and fluid control roles played by kidneys, and the body can weaken as it tries to make up for what is missing, Dr. Segev says. The only cure for kidney failure is a kidney transplant.

In the study, frailty was measured using a five-point scale developed at Johns Hopkins. Patients are classified as frail if they meet three or more of the following criteria: shrinking (unintentional weight loss of 10 or more pounds in the previous year); weakness (decreased grip strength as measured by a hand-held dynamometer); exhaustion (measured by responses to questions about effort and motivation); reduced physical activity (determined by asking about leisure time and activities); and slowed walking speed (the time it takes to walk 15 feet).

Dr. Segev and his team enrolled 146 haemodialysis patients between January 2009 and March 2010, and followed them through August 2012. At enrolment, 50 per cent of the participants who were 65 and older, and 35 per cent of those under 65, were measured as frail. The three-year mortality rate for frail participants was 40 per cent, compared to 16.2 per cent for the non-frail. Of those hospitalised more than twice over the study period, 43 per cent were frail, while only 28 per cent were not frail.

“We’re learning that lessons from gerontology can help us understand younger patients with chronic diseases,” Dr. Segev said.

Dr. Segev, a transplant surgeon and director of clinical research for transplant surgery at Johns Hopkins, said doctors who are aware of their patients’ frailty may choose to examine those patients more frequently, adjust dialysis to a more conservative protocol, or make sure the patients have the social support needed to ensure they are taking their medications and otherwise taking care of themselves.

Physicians also could recommend physical therapy to those with low muscle mass to help them rebuild their strength. “You can imagine if you spend several days a week sitting in a chair hooked up to a machine, and the rest of the day recovering, that it would be difficult to get in shape and stay in shape,” said Mara A. McAdams-DeMarco, an instructor in the Department of Surgery and the Department of Epidemiology at Johns Hopkins and another co-author of the study.

 

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Wider Benefits From 'Frailty Test' for Elderly

New Research Throws Doubt on Resveratrol

A meta-analysis of multiple studies across animal species has found no evidence that resveratrol, the ingredient trumpeted as a health benefit in red wine, actually leads to higher-order species’ such as humans living longer.

The benefits of resveratrol have been hotly debated in scientific journals in recent years, with many promoting resveratrol as a magic bullet to help extend life expectancy. A multimillion dollar international supplement industry has now grown selling resveratrol pills. The marketing of these supplements often describes as evidence the ‘French Paradox’ – the belief that the health risks of rich diets such as those in French culture can be mitigated by moderate consumption of red wine.

But research published in Biology Letters journal and international press by University of Otago researchers, who were funded by Gravida, NZ’s Centre for Growth and Development, says this may be true for lower life forms – but not complex beings or humans.

The researchers systematically compared 19 separate resveratrol studies across 6 species and mined their data, methodology and results. They found that while resveratrol contributed to life extension in lower-level species such as yeast and nematodes (breed of worms), there was no consistent evidence of the same effect in higher-order species including fruit flies or mice, the closest species to humans that has been covered in published research to date.

In comparison, another meta-analysis by the same group looking at the effects of dietary restriction of either calories or proteins on life expectancy showed more consistent results across species (published in Aging Cell journal, 2012)

“At a glance, our results confirm the claims that resveratrol extends longevity. However, the analytical method we have used allows us to observe where this statement is unable to be supported. Both the species model and our ‘best’-fit meta-analytic model show a stark contrast between our hermaphrodite/asexual reference group (yeast and nematodes) and the higher-order animals,” co-authors Katie Hector, Malgorzata Lagisz and Shinichi Nakagawa say in Biology Letters.

“At a time when human trials testing for health benefits from resveratrol are in their early days, we believe it is inappropriate for resveratrol to be marketed as a life-extending health supplement when our analysis of the current knowledge provides such varied results,” they conclude.

Meanwhile supporters are now shifting their focus to look at whether resveratrol offers other health benefits such as protection against metabolic diseases such as obesity and diabetes as well as high cholesterol and clotting. In March this year for example, Professor David Sinclair, Harvard Medical School who is also co-founder of Sirtris, a GlaxoSmithKline supplements company, published research that described how resveratrol increases the activity of a specific sirtuin,SIRT1, that protects the body from diseases by revving up the mitochondria.

Dr Nakagawa is clear that his group’s meta-analysis did not look at other health claims and was focused on anti-aging evidence. “There could be something in these other effects, but we haven’t looked at that in this study,” he says. “Especially with clinical trials coming, it would be good to look at this evidence and we might well do that next.”

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New Research Throws Doubt on Resveratrol

Is Exercise Ageing You More Quickly?

 

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For the most part, exercise is an elixir for health. Apart from keeping you lean, fit and healthy, it can prevent a host of illnesses, from diabetes to osteoporosis and even cancer. It can ward of wrinkles and keep your skin younger, longer, but you have to know your limits.

“If you want to look young, don’t become a marathon runner,” says cosmetic physician Dr Van Park. “One marathon (or Tough Mudder or triathlon) every now and then is OK, but long term excessive exercise can hasten ageing,” she explains. “Just look at the faces of regular marathon runners.”

This can be the knock-on effect of putting your body under extreme stress by doing high-level exercise. “Cortisol is released when we’re highly stressed and high levels can lead to depression, memory loss, abdominal weight gain, insomnia and premature ageing,” Dr Park says. “We are not 100 per cent sure of the effects on collagen, but we suspect increased cortisol breaks down collagen and elastin which fast tracks ageing.

“Add to that free radical damage, ongoing sun exposure and a high-protein diet which often goes with excessive exercise, and men and women who exercise intensely over a long period do age faster.

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“In addition, it’s well documented high stress levels cause symptoms of hypothyroidism, and critical neurotransmitters such as glutamine, dopamine and 5-HTP are effected and can cause depression and even chronic fatigue, none of which is great news for your skin, body or face.”

That said, it’s all a question of balance and working up to your goals.

“Currently we know of no other ‘medicine’ with greater benefits for slowing or even reversing the effects of ageing on the body than physical exercise,” says Rob Newton, foundation professor of exercise and sports science at Edith Cowan University.

“The most significant benefit is in extending life by preventing the progression of chronic diseases such as cancer, cardiovascular disease, type II diabetes and Alzheimer’s. Exercise is also critical for maintaining muscle mass and helping to maintain a healthy level of body fat and this plays a major role in our immune function and metabolic health.”

Dr Park agrees that controlled exercise also significantly slows the ageing process. “Oxygenation occurs during exercise which, in turn, helps skin regenerate collagen. In addition, it lowers chronic inflammation throughout the body and aids weight loss – all of which keeps you looking young.”

As well as this, research indicates that muscle mass can regulate hormones and keep us looking young.

“Muscle is also a major moderator of chronic low-level inflammation in the body,” Professor Newton explains. “This chronic low-level inflammation, present in people who are sedentary – whether they are overweight or not, is one of the main ageing mechanisms and the main driver for our current chronic disease epidemic as it causes cancer, heart disease, Alzheimer’s and even macular degeneration.”

The key to extracting all the anti-ageing goodness out of exercise is starting early.

“It is definitely the best strategy to adopt the exercise habit as a child and continue this lifestyle throughout life,” Ms Livingstone says. But the good news is, it’s never too late to start.

“Extensive clinical research evidence demonstrates that you are never too old to start,” Professor Newton says. “In our clinic we have hundreds of men and women in their 60s 70s and 80s commencing structured exercise for the first time  and they experience enormous benefits…

“In many ways they are turning back the ageing process and our tests indicate that many are regaining the bodies with equivalent structure and function to people in their 30s and 40s.”

American orthopaedic surgeon and author, Vonda Wright, who also studies ageing athletes, says it is a myth that frailty and mental decline are inevitable in old age.

Read more: http://www.theage.com.au/lifestyle/diet-and-fitness/is-exercise-ageing-you-20130527-2n6x7.html#ixzz2UlCTnj00

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