By Yasmin Anwar University of California – Berkeley Findings suggest boosting ‘slow wave’ sleep could restore memory as we age The connection between poor sleep, memory loss and brain deterioration as we grow older has been elusive. But for the first...
Well, I would call it the Age of Awareness – it’s that first time we look in a mirror and realize things are a-changing for the worse. Usually it shows as a slow buildup of mid body fat for men – they haven’t yet noticed loss of muscle, but...
Here it is half-way through January, the decorations are back in storage, tax season is beginning, and it seems like the last thing I have time for is writing about health and aging well. But it has been a long time since I did a Frank’s Column and the search...
Frequently, I remind myself that I’m not a doctor of anything, nor a researcher in the pure sense. I am an engineer, of electronic circuit design background, with a near lifetime designing missile-borne Radar systems. I am focused on using technologies,...
In our Anti-aging category we discuss the impact of inflammation on the aging process, and how it seems to underlie many of the disease conditions that eventually take us down the final slope of life. Now there is word that even one bad night’s sleep increases a...