Recent Articles

• Work Out the Blues
  Dr. Di Pasquale has consistently emphasized the therapeutic effect of exercise on the mind. In fact, physical activity is a useful tool for preventing and easing depression symptoms.
• Eat Less, Live Longer: More Evidence
  In the quest for longevity or longer life, medical researchers have been exploring the potential of calorie restriction diet or CR. It started when a Cornell University professor unexpectedly discovered dieting rats that lived 30 percent longer. Same results have been found with monkeys and Labrador Retrievers.
• Mind and Body: Stress and the Immune System
  Scientists are learning more about the intricate link between mind and body, specifically he relationship between emotion and the immune system, and how stress influences the immune system, weakening disease-fighting cells and creating fertile environments for pathogens.
• A Primer on Vitamins
  If you're eating a really balanced diet, meaning lots of vegetables, fruits, milk, eggs, fish and meat, do you need vitamin supplement? It used to be the answer is no but now there's evidence that you would still need vitamin supplements to get the vitamins you need.
• Sleep: Myths and Facts
  Lots of people have strong views and misconceptions about sleep or lack of it. A lot of these are shaped by living in an essentially sleep deprived post-industrial society.
• Eat Less, Live Longer
  The connection between eating less and living longer has been known to researchers since the 1930s when a Cornell University nutrition professor unexpectedly discovered that dieting rats tend to live 30 percent longer. If that's the case with animals, then it might be true with humans too. This is the premise behind the calorie restriction diet (CR).
• RESEARCH UPDATE: Creatine boosts brain function
  Two new studies have found startling links between creatine and brain function. Taking creatine supplements improves both memory and intelligence!! Creatine Advantage not only helps you put on brawn, but also brains.
• Estrogen Does A Brain Good
  Information released recently implies that estrogen may help prevent a stressed and shrinking brain.