Of the more than 100 human mental disorders that respond to therapeutic, medical, or behavioral interventions, Alzheimer's, with roughly 2/3rds of all dementia cases, affects an estimated 7.6 million Americans, placing it as the 6t leading cause of mortality. Other leading brain diseases, in rank order, are: Vascular dementia Lewy Body dementia Frontotemporal dementia Your bulletin team has had, up close and personal, first-hand knowledge of dementia, as a result of caring fo

Let's take a close look at the pancreas and see what it does for us. Overall, the pancreas functions as the primary organ for digestion. The pancreas secretes digestive enzymes directly to the small intestine to finish the job of digesting proteins, fats, and carbohydrates. The pancreas also performs the critical task of maintaining precise blood sugar levels through the release of three hormones: Insulin, which lowers blood glucose (sugar), by promoting glucose uptake into

Our hardest working organs in the body. They work silently, 24 hours a day for decades, without causing any trouble. When kidney's get into trouble, it usually is the result of other diseases like adult diabetes, high blood pressure, vascular disease, and inflammatory diseases. WHY TWO KIDNEYS ? Evolution sometimes provides two organs, if the organ is critical to survival. If necessary, we can get by with only one kidney, but two, provides more resilience in case a kidney is

Living Stronger - Longer Living stronger longer isn't about reaching a certain / numeric age, it's about extending our vital years so we can reach our distant goals and desires. Many new human life extending ideas are available thanks to the research success of longevity associations throughout the country. While wishing for future healthy years is far easier than actually seeing it happen, we are very lucky to be in a period where mass volumes of scientific data provide expe