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Melatonin: The Anti-Aging Sleep Hormone

Melatonin is another of the super hormones, those miracle substances that slow your aging and help you to live more youthful, energetic, disease-free, spiritually inspired and active lives – whatever your age.

But melatonin’s story gets better. Because of all the super anti-aging products flooding onto the market do the explosion of the information age, it can all be very confusing. “What do I take?” “Which supplements are the best?” Good questions.

Anti-aging and Longevity

In fact, Melatonin is one of the only substances ever discovered that significantly extends the lifespan of laboratory animals. Let’s be very clear about this. There are many supplements that can make you look and feel younger – give you more youthful energy – but only a few have been shown to extend actual lifespan by a significant amount.

Melatonin is one of those super hormones that can actually help you to live longer.

In scientific tests, the average lifespan of animals extended about 30%. I have read figures of between 20% and 50%, so 30% is a relatively safe average. That means instead of dying at 70, you greatly increase the probability that you will live until you are 100 if [...]

August 2nd, 2009 | Tags: Anti-Aging, best anti aging treatments, healing, health supplements, Hormones, longevity, melatonin, natural healing, natural medicine, the best anti aging products, vitamins | Category: Anti-Aging & Longevity, Hormones & Misc | 28 comments

Pregnenolone: The Mother of all Hormones

Pregnenolone is called the “mother hormone” or “the brain hormone” because it is converted from cholesterol by the body in the mitochondria of the cell and is the primary hormone of the Adrenal gland. That means that all other adrenal hormones – from dhea to testosterone to estrogen, mineralocorticoids and glucocorticoids – are produced from Pregnenolone.

Now we have all heard how terrible cholesterol is for health, right? Anything with cholesterol is bad and must be avoided? But if the most important adrenal hormone in your entire body – and the most potent memory enhancer known to science – is produced from cholesterol, how could cholesterol be so bad for you?

The answer is that cholesterol in itself is not bad, but the sources you get it from in your food or supplements are very important. There are good and bad sources of cholesterol. For example, natural butter is much healthier than synthetic margarine. And don’t eat foods cooked with unhealthy trans-fats, like companies such as McDonalds and KFC, etc. did for years even after the scientific evidence was overwhelming that they should stop because it was causing heart and other diseases.

Pregnenolone has been shown to have very few [...]

July 19th, 2009 | Tags: disease, Health, Health & Fitness, health and wellness, health benefits, health care, health supplements, Hormones, how to stay healthy, how to treat memory loss, natural health, natural health supplements, natural medicine for memory loss, natural remedies for memory loss, pregnenolone, vitamins | Category: Hormones & Misc | 21 comments

DHEA: The Youthful Anti-Aging Hormone

Dhea is an acronym for the hormone dehydroepiandrosterone, which, along with human growth hormone, are the most abundant, important and powerful hormones in the human body. Dhea is the most abundant of the more than 150 hormones produced by the adrenal gland. DHEA is so powerful that many consider it to be one of the most effective anti-aging supplements ever discovered.

It is important to make a distinction from the very start between general “anti-aging” qualities and “life-extension” qualities. Anti-aging is anything that makes you look and feel younger than your biological age. It can reduce and delay the incidence of disease, increase energy, reduce wrinkles and depression, etc.

On the other hand, life-extension actually prolongs the number of years you can live – it increases your lifespan. Dhea, despite its incredible anti-aging qualities, has not been shown to extend lifespan, unlike supplements like melatonin, which I will discuss in another article. But it is vital in maintaining youthful vigor while you are alive.

The discovery of dhea as a powerful aid to human health took place decades ago, making it one of the pioneer anti-aging supplements. I have been taking it for about 8-9 years already and I’m only [...]

July 14th, 2009 | Tags: Anti-Aging, anti-aging supplements, dhea, health information, health news, hormone, hormone supplements, Hormones, longevity, nutrition, nutritional supplements, supplements, women's issues, womens health, womens hormones | Category: Hormones & Misc | 80 comments