-For decades, saturated fats and cholesterol were wrongly vilified as the central culprit of heart disease and stroke, leading manufacturers to substitute trans fats in food products -When New York City severely limited the amount of trans fats restaurants could use in food preparation, it opened the door for researchers to measure heart attack rates, […]

Despite more than 1,700 medical studies1 being performed on coconut oil, it continues to be vilified mainly because 90 percent of its fat content is saturated fat. However, saturated fats, and most particularly coconut oil, are a vital part of the human diet. For decades, we’ve labored under the false belief that saturated fat is […]

The study was lead by Daniel Belsky, Ph.D. an assistant professor of medicine at the Duke University School of Medicine. Previous research has shown that calorie restriction hinders the aging process in mice, worms, and flies. The question is to what extent such restriction has on the biological aging process in human beings. Biological aging […]

For the past few decades, it’s been assumed that growing older and osteoarthritis go hand in hand, just another expected part of the aging process. In the United States alone, 27 million people suffer from its pain and discomfort. It seems to be especially prevalent in post-menopausal women, leading the medical community to believe that […]