The intestinal microbiota is the set of bacteria and viruses that live in your gut. Microbiota perform a variety of functions, including digesting food and protecting against specific pathogens.
There are several things that can disrupt the gut microbiota, including diet, alcohol consumption, antibiotics and inflammatory bowel disease. These cause imbalances, known as “dysbiosis” which, in turn, are associated with a wide array of chronic diseases.
In the last decade, the results of hundreds of studies in animal models have suggested that gut dysbiosis may play a role in several metabolic disturbances. Furthermore, in rodents, the implantation of certain bacteria…
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Participating in Activities You Enjoy As You Age
There are many things you can do to help boost your health as you age, including making healthy food choices and not smoking. But did you know that participating in social and other activities you enjoy can also help support healthy aging?
As you grow older, you may find yourself spending more time at home alone. Being lonely or socially isolated is not good for your overall health. For example, it can increase feelings of depression or anxiety, which can have a negative impact on many other aspects of your health. If you find yourself spending a lot of time…
How to Increase Life Expectancy: 10 Simple Steps
Get Daily Exercise
Improvements in life expectancy are strongly linked to daily exercise. A comprehensive review of studies in the Journal of Aging Research showed that people who exercise regularly—even for as little as three hours a week—lived up to 6.9 years longer than those who didn’t.
Habit-building is the key to success. The easiest way to build a habit is to commit to daily workouts even if it’s just for 20 minutes. If you do, you may skip a day but are more likely to get back on track immediately.
If you exercise three days a week and miss…
Who Kidnapped Days of Our Lives’ Kate On the Fishing Boat?
Well, our Kate questions have finally been answered on Days of Our Lives! ok, some of our questions have been answered. We know, as of the big Friday cliffhanger that Kate is most definitely alive and back on a boat, chopping fish — the same place she was 27 years ago when Lauren Koslow first debuted in the role.
Kate had been missing for a year at the time after her plane went down, and the story heralded the switch from Kate’s original portrayer, Deborah Adair to Lauren Koslow. This time, we didn’t have to wait a year to find…