mental health
Mental health and psychology are essential in life extension and leading a healthy and happy life.
Can You Prevent Your Skin From Ageing?
Question : Elaine, do you dread ageing and worry about it? Are you feeling unhappy about any creases or lines you might see on your face? Can we stop our skin from ageing? I am constantly worrying about my skin changing, but don’t want to be paranoid out it. How can I accept it?
By Elaine Sihera 2 months ago in Longevity
A Calorie Is a Measurement. A Molecule Is a Message.
A calorie is a unit of energy. Nutrition labels don't arrive at that number by incinerating food in a lab; modern food energy values are typically calculated using metabolizable-energy systems, such as Atwater factors, that estimate how much of a nutrient's raw energy content the body can actually extract and use. Either way, the number is a quantitative measure of available fuel. Glucose and fructose are even the same chemical formula, C₆H₁₂O₆, just arranged differently, and both supply roughly the same number of calories per gram. If you replaced one with the other in a recipe, the calorie count on the label wouldn't change by a single digit.
By Khali Sollis2 months ago in Longevity
Whose Gut Became "Normal"?
Imagine a team of scientists sets out to define the healthy human gut. They recruit thousands of volunteers, sequence trillions of microbes, and build an elegant statistical portrait of what a "normal" microbiome looks like. There's just one detail worth noticing: nearly everyone in the study lives in a large city, eats food that arrived in a package, has taken antibiotics more than once, drinks treated tap water, rarely touches soil, and has not hosted an intestinal parasite in their life.
By Khali Sollis2 months ago in Longevity
10 Simple Steps to a Healthy Lifestyle
We all yearn for great health to keep us fit and extend our lives. However, getting a very healthy lifestyle does not depend purely on the physical aspects of living, but engaging both mind and body to achieve the best state of wellbeing.
By Elaine Sihera 2 months ago in Longevity
What the Mind Practices, the Mind Becomes
There is a particular kind of stillness that used to be unremarkable. Someone sits down with a book, or a task, or simply their own thoughts, and nothing else happens for a while. No prompt arrives to interrupt it. No notification arbitrates whether the stillness continues. It simply runs its course.
By Khali Sollis2 months ago in Longevity
What Happens Between Wanting Something and Working for It
There's a particular kind of confusion that shows up somewhere in the middle of a hard project. Not at the beginning, when the goal is still an idea, and not at the end, when it's either finished or abandoned. It shows up in the middle, when the work has gotten harder than you expected and the reward is still out of reach, and you notice — almost as a bystander — that you don't want to keep going, even though you still want the outcome.
By Khali Sollis2 months ago in Longevity
