Climb Stairs To Extend Both Health And Lifespan

Kombucha tea is a fermented drink that is made with tea, sugar, bacteria, and yeast. Supporters suggest that this beverage can help to prevent and treat a range of health conditions from weight loss to cancer and high blood pressure. Research suggests that it may provide benefits similar to probiotic supplements such as combating inflammation, preventing constipation, and supporting a healthy immune system. 

“And if you should survive to 105, look at all you'll derive out of being alive. And here is the best part, you've had a head start, if you are among the very young at heart.” Sung by Frank Sinatra.

At 105 years young, Julia Hawkins, with a freshly picked flower in her hair, set a world record at the Louisiana Senior Olympic Games for being both the first woman and first American in her age group to run 100 meters. This inspirational woman started running in her 90’s, and when it comes to the race, she said that it is just a drop in the bucket in the race of life, in which she has lived through two world wars and spent 70 years married to the love of her life. 

Recent research published in the journal Neurology of over 7,000 Norwegians, suggests that if your work is a constant flow of brain-challenging sequences that requires bursts of creativity and delicate negotiations to get the job done, you should consider yourself to be lucky.  The study found that the more people use their brains at work the better they appear to be protected against age-related cognitive decline.

The public health problems of obesity, overweight, and type 2 diabetes continue to escalate and they are becoming increasingly more common in developing countries as well as developed countries. This unfortunate reality is a consequence of a bad adaptation of the human genome in response to the current environment of caloric environmental factors, elements of which can be modified and controlled which include but are not limited to:

• Increasingly sedentary lifestyles with little to no physical activity and exercise 
• Constant consumption of hypercaloric food and beverages with unlimited access
• Negative industrial manipulations of food with additives, sweeteners, enhancers, and preservatives 
• Alteration of circadian biological rhythms due to chronic exposure to light, working nights, nocturnal food intake, increased stress, and lack of exposure to natural light which reduces endogenous melatonin levels.