Every day, my life is filled with interesting questions and pursuits, so I'm always thinking. Garlic mustard even puts out chemicals that reduce the growth of other plants. Places it grows actually have a lower diversity of native plants. Its hardiness is legendary as well. The average plant sends out …

Zadik Hazan, founder and chief scientific officer at Regenera, started the company with the mission to help people restore the function that's lost as a result of neurological diseases. Engaging in these activities also reduces entitlement and helps children appreciate the hard work that goes into maintaining public spaces. They …

And while leaders in the health care industry understand that preventive care is better than reactive care for people and for the economy, it will not be enough to turn the tide. But the drugs for targeting aging that are already in development can do just that, and in the …

Our maximum potential life span as a species is thought to be about 115 years, but many people die before the age of 80 after suffering from an average of three diseases. So we have 35 extra years that we can realize, like some of our centenarians have, and we …

A week later, AFAR informed me that he believed in our research and wanted to contribute a significant amount to the study. Every time I hear about a new investor, it's music to my ears. Metformin Is the Tool, Not the Goal Installing insulation in your attic or weather stripping …

After the conference in Spain, the evidence in metformin's favor became overwhelming. In addition to the safety factor--metformin has sixty-plus years of safe use, compared with the unresolved safety issues of many other drugs that can target aging--new clinical trials reported significant reductions in the risk for type 2 diabetes …

We're also collecting data on common geriatric conditions, such as fractures and pneumonia, and syndromes, such as frailty and fall-related injuries. When TAME concludes, this information will be made available to the broad research community and health care providers to guide and accelerate the pace of applied geroscience. Although functional …

For the past few years, Jerry has devoted much of his time to his role as Bernice's caregiver. They moved into a continuing care center after she suffered a stroke, and as his son-in-law and a scientist studying SuperAgers, it's rewarding for me to see the determination he's able to …

So he took a job as a controller with a trucking company that offered more opportunity, and he remained in the trucking industry until the early '80s--a career during which he achieved his goal of financial independence and negotiated with Teamsters president Jimmy Hoffa. You'd tell him beforehand what it …

In the Youth Garden's Green Ambassadors program for high school students, participants cook a meal each Friday for the entire staff with produce from the garden. Building Relationships and Service to Others With the food eaten and the program over, it was time to go home. But I still had …

But we had a workshop to get to. Not right now--afterwards, I promise, I said, hoping that I'd remember to follow up. He ran through the paths ahead of me. We passed by a huge painted monarch butterfly, groups of green plants, and a wooden insect hotel. The main gathering …

All of this sounded pretty damn amazing to me. Fortunately the Washington Youth Garden offers weekend workshops to local families. My kids got psyched for the workshop on pollinators. Our garden is fine, but someone else's garden with games and activities? As Slimey the worm from Sesame Street is three-year-old …

Nodding, the teacher responded, These are all things that plants that use wind for pollination do. Farmers plant corn close together. Trees produce a lot of pollen, which is why we sneeze in the springtime. Throughout the activity, the kids were totally engaged. They definitely learned more about pollination techniques …

In these cases, you are uncovering someone else's storyline instead of your own. For a miasm, ask the Divine to show you what happened to the ancestor that initiated the miasm. Usually there is a tragic event, such as a death, famine, loveless marriage, illness, or catastrophe, that created the …

Affirm that the other person is also a fully developed and loving spiritual being. Sense the presence of his or her spirit inside and engage with it. Feel how the unhealthy connections release and only love remains. Call upon the presence of the Divine, which immediately shifts the situation into …

This step deserves to be mulled over and pulled apart as one might a treasure chest, searching for all the gold you can find. When you get up in the morning, ask the Divine to support your boundaries in a way that provides the spiritual guidance you need. When you …

There is solid scientific evidence that environment has an influence on eyesight. Beyond consciousness is where the large majority of brain activities dwell. What you are able to perceive, even when you pay attention to all of your senses, represents just a tiny part of the underlying neural workings. This …

You begin to react to this foreign protein in much the same way as you would to a bee sting. Naturally, there is no shortage of studies about the brain and its political inclinations. And it seems in general that liberals have a slightly larger anterior cingulate cortex (the part …

Other researchers have found no basis for the genetic myopia theory. The fact that nothing would be the same without dopamine was revealed to us by wretched lab mice (which share about 97. When they are given a substance that blocks dopamine receptors, they stop eating, potentially until they die …

This is the clinical amplitude. This already constitutes a big step forward towards empathy. Your brain is able to project in imagination not only into another place but into another time and a different identity, which is essential for being able to put yourself in someone else's shoes'. <a href …

Since astigmatism is caused by tension in the muscles around the eyes, the best way to correct it is to release the excess tension. It's all that and much more. Consciousness is the brain's most mysterious characteristic. So mysterious that it attracted the attention of theologians and philosophers long before …

Which line can you see? Some literally die for love. The experience of falling in love produces on the brain stimuli that are, in intensity, up there with hunger and thirst. This is all thanks to a powerful cocktail of chemical substances that flood the appropriate parts of the brain …

This movement is often referred to as the tiger climbing the mountain. The information reaches the thalamus, which immediately dispatches it to the amygdalae, the control centre for fear. Even though the data received is still rather vague, the amygdalae order the brainstem instantly to block all the body's movements …

Look at something that you can easily remember - perhaps a flag or a letter on the eye-chart. The wonder of seeing is achieved through a succession of optical mechanisms, starting with the cornea - an actual lens that sends the retina an upside-down image - and finishing with the mental mechanisms that …

Next move your imaginary image to the middle of your head. And what it does see is mostly a magnificent illusion. What sound is that? Where is it coming from? The most distant evolutionary origin of hearing consisted in finding an answer, preferably immediate, to these two questions. Two questions …

One of the best ways to avoid falling prey to the planning fallacy is to get into the habit of giving yourself more time to complete your tasks or projects. A good idea is to double the time you think you'll need to finish a given project. For long-term projects …

In all the examples above, you choose to maintain the status quo because of a variety of factors from the past while ignoring what your present self really wants. By doing so, you neglect your present self and act against the interests of the future self you want to become …

Your inaccurate perception of the world may also lead you to waste a lot of time and effort addressing the wrong problems while ignoring more urgent issues. This is the cost of having an inaccurate model of reality. It's not just theory. However, all laser surgery actually does is shave …

But against three professional drivers? On the very first practice lap they all flashed past me going into a series of S turns. I knew they would be fast, but their speed seemed surreal. When you come to accept that your story can still end well even if it has …

At the beginning of the challenge, my entries were simple sentences or point form things I was thankful for. By the end of the challenge, I noticed that my entries were in greater detail? That got me thinking! Responsibility rests squarely on the cyclist, not the coach. Cycling coaches advise …

I lived life the way others wanted me to, listening to people who supposedly knew better--people who told me what to do, what to say, how to live. None of them knew the true me. He pushed her down a flight of stairs, causing her to lose the baby, after …

The second dream started off in the same way. I went to live on the boat, but as I was learning about the boat, I jumped off and swam across the ocean. Your father tells you that you've always been a disappointment to him? Well, you've got a good job …

I have seen families out in my neighborhood that I've never seen before, all of them walking, talking, and laughing. I have seen people step up to support those around them via Zoom, Facetime, and other video apps. Whenever I struggled on the field, I would hear this coach's voice …

Plans are great, but plans without action are just dreams. Pick something you want to do and try it. An introvert speaking up, shaky voice and all, is the type of deviation that benefits us all. Everyone has something to say, and if she doesn't use her singular voice to …

That was when I realized that I had to face up to my reality. It was at Anthony's funeral that I finally understood that life isn't promised, that we aren't guaranteed tomorrow. If I wanted to leave a mark on the world, I was going to have to start working …

Maybe you're addicted to social media or unhealthy relationships. Whatever your addiction, it is an enormous roadblock in your life and an impediment to facing up to your reality. The truth is that addictions are a way of escaping reality, and yet, their very existence interferes with you reaching your …

They do want to living up to your potential. So, as a summary women like to be understood, happiness, respect and they also want honesty. But, as the time goes by, the woman wishes change because she is setting new goals. Why men can't figure women out is because they …

A hearing aid cannot know from which direction the squeal of tires is coming from and whether it's close by or far away. If a sound isn't correctly assigned a location, it becomes a burden on our brain. Without the ability to spatially locate, people become disoriented and tense up …

Don't met the naysayers pull you down! Standing up after a failure is hard, and even harder after a new failure. But standing up is what will make you better as the person you deserve to be : yourself! That special, perfect woman that every man dreams to have. But does …

We do not know of another type of energy movement in our physical universe. Perhaps no other is possible. How energy moves overall is the same for everyone. But how this curve looks in detail--if it has a nicely curved, smooth motion, whether it has sharp spikes, or whether a …