Cosmetic surgery has gone from being something which only a minority of people do to something which is much more socially acceptable and affordable. In the UK in 2005, 300,000 cosmetic treatments were performed while in the following year 577,000 were performed (an increase of over 90%) and a market analyst [...]
Read more →Having an active lifestyle appears to make people biologically younger, this is from a report from the January 28th issues of the Archives of Internal Medicine. This reinforces what many take for granted, but it is important to back up common sense with actual data.
Regular exercises have the following traits; lower rates [...]
I think it is important for serious money to be put into fixing the problems of aging, aging needs to have the same stature as other diseases such as Cancer, Heart Disease and Alzheimer’s. These other disease are all aging related diseases as the number one indicator of whether you are likely [...]
Read more →More than half a million people in the uk have irreversible blindness which is caused by macular degeneration. This is close to 1 percent of the whole population. A large portion of these are the elderly. The disease is one where there is a progressive loss of vision in the center due [...]
Read more →Regenerative medicine has the potential to change the face of medicine. It stretches from repopulating skin, to regrowing whole organs. A new heart could be grown from your own stem cells, or muscles could be repopulated countering sarcopenia. It is difficult to understate the importance of this technology.
It may seem odd that [...]
