With age comes a diminished capacity for cellular protein synthesis, a decline in immune function, an increase in fat mass, a loss of muscle mass and strength and a decrease in bone mineral density. Age-related disability is synonymous weakness, impaired mobility, balance, and poor endurance. In the very elderly it is called physical frailty and [...]

The two clinically most important changes in endocrine activity during aging involve the pancreas and the thyroid. Approximately 40% individuals 65 to 74 years old and 50% individuals order than 80 years have impaired glucose tolerance or diabetes mellitus, and are risk developing marcovascular, complications at an accelerated rate. Pancreatic insulin receptor, and post-receptor changes [...]

Thomas E. levy, M.D., J.D., sent his colleague Joseph Mercola , D.O., a case report in which vitamin C was used to completely cure a case of swine flu, or H1N1 (see www.mercola.com, September 25, 2009). Levy asserts that adequately dosed vitamin C has never failed to cure an acute viral syndrome, in his experience. [...]

A chronic illness is a disease state that has a prolonged course, does not resolve spontaneously, and rarely is completely cured. An estimated 99 million Americans currently live with one or more chronic illnesses. According to the CDC, chronic disease is the leading causes of death and disability in the United States, accounting for 70% [...]

Prozac alone has been associated with over 1734 suicide deaths and over 28,000 adverse reactions. ON any given one-year period, 9.5% of the US population, or about 18.8 million adults, suffer from depression. The indirect and direct costs of mood disorder illnesses in the US total over $43 billion a year. Depression and related mood [...]