by janice sommerville | DRINKS, HEART DISEASE, LONGEVITY, NUTRITION
What Happens When You Drink Tea Every Day Black, green, or herbal, we know tea is the longevity drink enjoyed among the longest-lived people in the world, but how does it work to extend longevity, relieve stress, protect against cancer, and decrease the risk of heart...
by janice sommerville | DIABETES, HEART DISEASE, LECTINS, LONGEVITY, NUTRITION
We often think of heart disease as an inevitable part of aging. We’re taughtthat just like the rest of us, the heart gets weaker and weaker as we age, andafter a while you’ll probably need to go on medication or undergo a fewsurgical interventions—maybe have your...
by janice sommerville | DIABETES, LONGEVITY, MICROBIOME, NUTRITION
Did you notice in our discussion of the Blue Zones earlier that not only dopeople in all of those cultures eat meat very rarely, but they also consumegoat or sheep milk products rather than cow? Call this luck or intuitivewisdom (or flavor preference). Whatever it is,...
by janice sommerville | LONGEVITY, MICROBIOME, NUTRITION
You’ve seen on the cover of Time magazine and you’ve read in bestsellingbooks that our fear of animal fats is based on fake news and fake studies.Well, I’m eager to debunk the long-held myth in the paleo and ketocommunities that saturated animal fats such as butter...
by janice sommerville | AGING, LONGEVITY, NUTRITION
People develop anemia and become weak and frail as they age because theyare deficient in iron, right? After all, Geritol, an iron-rich tonic, was wildlypopular in the 1950s and ’60s for the treatment of “iron-poor blood.” Not sofast. Iron accumulation in the body...
by janice sommerville | AGING, LONGEVITY, NUTRITION
Remember our friend the naked mole rat, who has confounded scientists bynever dying of old age? These hairless creatures have an extraordinarily lowmetabolic rate, something that most of us have probably been told is a badthing. But the idea that increasing your...
