Skin Health Care

Posts Tagged ‘Anti Aging’

A person can have 70 years but one body and one’s own cells 50, or vice versa. The first is the chronological age, that in the DNI and is celebrated with cakes and candles.

The second is the biological age and is marked by cellular aging. Now a group of scientists has just identified for the first time, some genetic variants associated with the latter age of humans, a discovery that opens new avenues to investigate some age-related diseases. The researchers, led by Professor Nilesh Samani, Department of Cardiovascular Sciences at the University of Leicester (UK) carried out an analysis of more than 500,000 genetic variations in the human genome in two European cohorts with 2,917 participants and then verified their findings in 9,492 other participants.

What they have discovered, it is said in the journal Nature Genetics, are some variants, all based around the same gene, the third-that make people who carry them have shorter telomeres. Telomeres are part of the chromosomes and its length is considered a marker of biological age. Shorter, more ‘old’ do to our body.

According to the authors, the telomeres are strong genetic determination, between 40% and 80% – and although we are all born with a certain length of these structures, then is changing as a birthday, and cells are dividing. “What we have done is identify a genetic variant that telomeres shorten and make them biologically older” Samani said. Read the rest of this entry »

All of us seek the secret of eternal youth and how to secure a well-regulated and in perfect condition at all levels. To achieve this we use many methods and techniques available to us. Regard A fad that has spread among many people is to draw on a substance called melatonin, which promises to be the ideal choice for organic disturbances, but is it really?.

Melatonin is a natural hormone that the body itself produces and plays an important role in the aging of this, the immune system and sexual activity of the body. It is a hormone secreted by the pineal gland, and intervenes or is present in many body processes. It is therefore important production, but lately there is a trend on this substance has become a star of the supplements and treatments to improve health.

First of all we must make it clear that the use of this hormone is not shown to be completely effective, since there is no study that proves it. Despite this, melatonin is used many people in their daily lives due to the properties that apply to cellular and neuronal processes. For this reason it is a widely used type of hormone to act on biorhythms and the regulation of sleep in people suffering from insomnia or have acute signs of jet lag. This regulatory effect of sleep because the body makes melatonin at night, with what we consume will help increase the desire for sleep.

Read the rest of this entry »