The results of a University of Pennsylvania study, published in the Journal of Alzheimer’s Disease  found that a specific meditation, Kirtan Kriya performed daily for eight weeks increased brain activity in areas important to memory and actually improved their cognitive function in people suffering from memory decline.
 
Kirtan Kriya (KK), originated in the Kundalini yoga tradition, [...]

I was amazed to discover the power of what I’d once considered to be simple fruits and nuts.  A few years ago Tufts University researcher, James Joseph, Ph.D. reported that diets containing two percent, six percent, or nine percent walnuts, when given to senior rats, reversed several signs of brain aging, along with age-related movement [...]

A Journal of the American Medical Association study found that fish oils slowed down DNA shortening (telomere) that is now linked to biological aging. Research has known for quite a while that fish intake is associated with longer survival in patients with coronary heart disease.  The particular way fish oil provides this benefit was not [...]

 
In 1991 I gave a presentation at a Mind/Body Medicine conference.  Deepak Chopra, MD, one of the leaders in the field of holistic medicine gave a keynote presentation,  that forever changed my life and in particular, my perception of “aging.”   He discussed a remarkable study that occurred in 1979.  A Harvard psychologist took a group [...]