How Healthy Are You?
A Multi-Faceted Approach to Measuring Health & Wellness Many individuals are walking around with an illusion of health. Some of these people don’t feel all that well but because they get a “clean bill of health” at their yearly physical, they conclude they must really be healthy. The truth is that a conventional medical evaluation […]
L-5-MTHF: New supplement that could save your life
by Dr. Joseph Debé One in three Americans has a genetic variation that impairs their ability to properly utilize folic acid (also known as vitamin B9). The recent availability of the metabolically active form of folic acid (more appropriately, “folate”) in supplemental form has the potential to improve health and prevent premature death for millions. […]
DHEA – The real story
by Dr. Joseph Debé If you are presently taking or considering taking DHEA, please read this article. Many important facts about DHEA are not widely known or presented in the media. Like most compounds that have the potential for doing good, DHEA also has the potential to do harm. First, let’s look at what DHEA […]
The Most Under-Appreciated Factor in Health & Aging.
Glycation: The Single Most Important Factor in Degenerative Disease and Aging and Chances Are You Haven’t Heard of It There are more than 7000 published papers on the subject of glycation. Glycation is the process of interaction of sugars with proteins, lipids, and nucleic acids, giving rise to damaged tissue. Crust formation as bread bakes […]
Inflammaging
One of the Most Important Factors in Chronic Disease The immune system is designed to defend us from foreign invaders such as bacteria and to clean up damaged tissue after injury so that proper healing can take place. As we age, however, our immune systems turn against us. Inflammaging is the seemingly paradoxical state of […]