Anti-Aging Tip: An Antioxidant to Help You Avoid Diabetes and Obesity
By Al Sears, MD
You've probably heard that red wine has health benefits. You may even know about research linking those benefits to the powerful antioxidant called resveratrol. One study has found that resveratrol lengthened the lives of mice by 30 percent.
I've recently uncovered more evidence that this antioxidant may be the most versatile and powerful anti-aging supplement (with the exception of CoQ10) you can take. The newest round of studies, from the Institute of Genetics, Molecular, and Cellular Biology, found that resveratrol helped mice run twice as far during exercise. It super-charged their muscles, reduced their heart rates, and gave them a boost in endurance comparable to the boost humans achieve through athletic training.
A study of men and women from Finland showed that resveratrol is likely to operate the same way in humans. And one of the lead researchers from a French study, Johan Auwerx, said, "Resveratrol makes you look like a trained athlete without the training."
What's more, resveratrol protected mice from gaining weight and developing the symptoms of diabetes and obesity. Other benefits included a heightened sensitivity to insulin (a sensitivity which declines with age). When you reverse this decline in insulin sensitivity, you have not only reduced the effects of aging, you've also helped maintain your ideal weight and avoid diabetes.
Aside from red wine, good sources of resveratrol are blueberries, cranberries, bilberries, and red grapes.
You can take resveratrol in supplement form as well, which you can find in most health food stores. I recommend a dose ranging from 20 mg to 50 mg daily.
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From the ETR Archives: How Cooperating With Competitors Can Help You Succeed
By Michael Masterson
[Ed. Note: To read each full article, click the link embedded in the text.]
"I hear plenty of talk about how cutthroat business is, but most of what I see is softer. I do know businessmen who are rude and crude. I know some who lie and cheat. But most of the worst ones don't do very well. They score a couple of scams, but then word gets out. Before long, they can't find anybody but new, dumb meat to do business with.
"Put differently, most of the business successes I've known or have seen firsthand were achieved by some form of cooperative behavior."
__________
"Bad behavior limits your potential. Good behavior enhances it. Furthermore, competitive business practices are generally self-destructive. Cooperation is the true key to long-term success.
"I can tell you from personal experience that in the jewelry business, the art business, the contest and sweepstakes business, the astrology business, the academic-book-publishing business, and many others - sharing ideas with your competitors works much better than trying to take advantage of them to further your own ends."
__________
"You can - if you like the martial metaphor - run your business as if you are fighting a war. You can see your market as a battleground. You can hate your competitor. You can try to beat him out of market share and rejoice if he goes out of business.
"But if he does, what have you won? A position in a market that has lost one of the agents that was making it grow."
__________
"I'm not advocating that you divulge all your secrets to all your competitors, but I'm strongly in favoring of giving first - and with all the best intentions - with the expectation that in the long run you'll get back as much or more than you have given.
"It's a universal principle that applies to all aspects of life. Many of the most successful people I know are 'give-first' people. Such people understand that the best way to establish trust and good will is to give first and without requisite compensation.
"Once trust and good will are established, business and communication flow smoothly, deals are easily cut, agreements are quickly made, and success is much more abundant."
______________________________
Word to the Wise: Torpid
"Torpid" (TOR-pid) - from the Latin for "numb" - means dull / sluggish / apathetic.
Example (as used by Peggy Payne in Sister India): "For more than twenty years - all my adult life - I have lived here: my great weight sunk, torpid in the heat, into this sagged chair on my rooftop patio."
Michael Masterson
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These articles appear courtesy of Early to Rise [Issue #1987, 03-12-07], the Internet's most popular health, wealth, and success e-zine. For a complimentary subscription, visit http://www.earlytorise.com/.
You've probably heard that red wine has health benefits. You may even know about research linking those benefits to the powerful antioxidant called resveratrol. One study has found that resveratrol lengthened the lives of mice by 30 percent.
I've recently uncovered more evidence that this antioxidant may be the most versatile and powerful anti-aging supplement (with the exception of CoQ10) you can take. The newest round of studies, from the Institute of Genetics, Molecular, and Cellular Biology, found that resveratrol helped mice run twice as far during exercise. It super-charged their muscles, reduced their heart rates, and gave them a boost in endurance comparable to the boost humans achieve through athletic training.
A study of men and women from Finland showed that resveratrol is likely to operate the same way in humans. And one of the lead researchers from a French study, Johan Auwerx, said, "Resveratrol makes you look like a trained athlete without the training."
What's more, resveratrol protected mice from gaining weight and developing the symptoms of diabetes and obesity. Other benefits included a heightened sensitivity to insulin (a sensitivity which declines with age). When you reverse this decline in insulin sensitivity, you have not only reduced the effects of aging, you've also helped maintain your ideal weight and avoid diabetes.
Aside from red wine, good sources of resveratrol are blueberries, cranberries, bilberries, and red grapes.
You can take resveratrol in supplement form as well, which you can find in most health food stores. I recommend a dose ranging from 20 mg to 50 mg daily.
______________________________
From the ETR Archives: How Cooperating With Competitors Can Help You Succeed
By Michael Masterson
[Ed. Note: To read each full article, click the link embedded in the text.]
"I hear plenty of talk about how cutthroat business is, but most of what I see is softer. I do know businessmen who are rude and crude. I know some who lie and cheat. But most of the worst ones don't do very well. They score a couple of scams, but then word gets out. Before long, they can't find anybody but new, dumb meat to do business with.
"Put differently, most of the business successes I've known or have seen firsthand were achieved by some form of cooperative behavior."
__________
"Bad behavior limits your potential. Good behavior enhances it. Furthermore, competitive business practices are generally self-destructive. Cooperation is the true key to long-term success.
"I can tell you from personal experience that in the jewelry business, the art business, the contest and sweepstakes business, the astrology business, the academic-book-publishing business, and many others - sharing ideas with your competitors works much better than trying to take advantage of them to further your own ends."
__________
"You can - if you like the martial metaphor - run your business as if you are fighting a war. You can see your market as a battleground. You can hate your competitor. You can try to beat him out of market share and rejoice if he goes out of business.
"But if he does, what have you won? A position in a market that has lost one of the agents that was making it grow."
__________
"I'm not advocating that you divulge all your secrets to all your competitors, but I'm strongly in favoring of giving first - and with all the best intentions - with the expectation that in the long run you'll get back as much or more than you have given.
"It's a universal principle that applies to all aspects of life. Many of the most successful people I know are 'give-first' people. Such people understand that the best way to establish trust and good will is to give first and without requisite compensation.
"Once trust and good will are established, business and communication flow smoothly, deals are easily cut, agreements are quickly made, and success is much more abundant."
______________________________
Word to the Wise: Torpid
"Torpid" (TOR-pid) - from the Latin for "numb" - means dull / sluggish / apathetic.
Example (as used by Peggy Payne in Sister India): "For more than twenty years - all my adult life - I have lived here: my great weight sunk, torpid in the heat, into this sagged chair on my rooftop patio."
Michael Masterson
__________________________________________________
These articles appear courtesy of Early to Rise [Issue #1987, 03-12-07], the Internet's most popular health, wealth, and success e-zine. For a complimentary subscription, visit http://www.earlytorise.com/.
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