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If fasting is not exactly your speed, diet is still tremendously important. As for what you should eat, the gold standard remains the Mediterranean dietone that is high in vegetables, fruits, whole grains, beans, nuts, seeds, and olive oil, and low on red meatthe only diet, says Barzilai, proven by clinical research to decrease cardiovascular mortality. A recent study in the medical journal Gut found that following it for just one year slowed the development of age-related inflammatory processes.

David Sinclair, Ph.D., Harvard geneticist and author of the bestseller Lifespan: Why We Ageand Why We Dont Have To, says the Mediterranean diet essentially tricks the body into thinking weve been doing exercise and fasting. Of course, this is not a permission slip for bottomless bowls of rigatoni; too much of a good thing is too much. Dan Buettner, the National Geographic Fellow who helped popularize the idea of the blue zonesthe five areas worldwide with the longest-lived denizenssays he follows a rule practiced by the residents of Okinawa, Japan, and stops eating when his stomach is 80 percent full. And perhaps consider occasionally skipping dessert: Research shows that sugar intake accelerates age-related inflammation. The more sugar you eat, the faster you age, says Robert Lustig, professor of pediatric endocrinology at the University of California, San Francisco. (The American Heart Association recommends that women keep it under six teaspoons per day.)

Other crucial life practices: adequate sleep and stress management. In blue zones, says Buettner, people downshift all day long, through prayer, meditation, or just taking naps. And scientists are also coming to more fully understand the role that other people play in prolonging life. A 2019 study in the journal SSM-Population Health found that social relationships significantly increase life span in older adults. Neuroscientist Daniel Levitin, author of this years Successful Aging, has found that friendships at age 80 are a bigger predictor of health than cholesterol level. Friends and even neighbors, he writes, protect your brain, while loneliness has been implicated in just about every medical problem you can think of.

But what about the factors you cant control? Most of us dont know whats lurking in our genome and are not often aware we might inherit some disease until we see the symptoms. That is changing, with tests that are leagues beyond 23andMe. The new Preventive Genomics Clinic at Brigham and Womens Hospital in Boston is the first academic clinic in the country to offer comprehensive DNA sequencing and interpretation of nearly 6,000 disease-associated genes, ranging from common cancers to the rare Fabry disease, which impairs fat breakdown in cells and affects the heart. Roughly 20 percent of people will be carrying a variant for a rare disease, such as hereditary heart problems, says director Robert Green, M.D., medical geneticist at Brigham and Womens. Where a full panel of tests used to cost many hundreds of thousands of dollars, the clinic charges $250 for a smaller panel and $1,900 for full sequencing and interpretation. (These costs are not yet covered by most insurance.)

In the near future, says Barzilai as we finish our walk, we can be healthy and vital in our 90s and beyond. He laughs. It may sound like science fiction, but I promise you, its science. While I can comprehend the misgivings about prolonging life, Ill admit that Im still programmed to crave those extra years, and will adopt what changes I can to make them more vibrant. My role model here is Gloria Steinem, now 86. I plan to live to be 100, she once remarked. Which I would have to do anyway, just to meet my deadlines.

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ALPHARETTA,Ga., Sept. 21, 2020 /PRNewswire/ --Robert E. Windsor, MD, is being recognized by Continental Who's Who as a Distinguished Leader for his remarkable contributions in the field of Medicine and for his dedication and commitment as the President, Medical Director, and Regenerative Medicine Specialist at Georgia RegenRX.

Located in the greater Atlanta area at 5755 North Point Pkwy, Suite #72, Alpharetta, Georgia, Georgia RegenRX offers expert, caring pain management and regenerative medical services to the Atlanta metropolitan area. Dr. Windsor plans to expand his practice into all aspects of regenerative medicine to include aesthetics and life extension. He believes that people do not need to age physiologically nearly as rapidly as they traditionally have and that they should remain mentally and physically vital and continue to look good while they age. An acclaimed physician, he has helped thousands of patients recover from the pain and improve their quality of life.

Backed by more than three decades of experience, Dr. Windsor is a top physician in Fulton County and will be expanding his practice into Forsyth and Gwinnett counties in 2021. His areas of expertise include interventional pain medicine, interventional orthopedics, regenerative medicine (e.g., stem cell therapy), integrative medicine, longevity medicine, and pain management for arthritis, chronic spinal pain, and sports injuries. In addition to his administrative and clinical experience, he has held numerous faculty positions. He has been a Pain Management Fellowship Director at Emory University, a leader at the American Academy of Physical Medicine, and a Visiting Professor at the University of Pennsylvania and Temple University among others.

Pursuing a pain/rehabilitative/physical medicine career to help others, Dr. Windsor always keeps, "the patient first and foremost." He has been highly successful because he continues to learn and develops new and improved skill sets. He advises new doctors to, "Stay up to date on emerging technologies in the biological field (i.e.: Stem cells)". He loves his field, remaining in his career for so many years because of his fervor for improving the function and quality of life of injured, ill, and/or elderly people.

In preparation for his career, Dr. Windsor earned a medical degree from the Texas A&M University College of Medicine at the age of twenty-three. He went on to complete a competitive residency program in physical medicine and rehabilitation at the University of Texas Health Sciences Center at San Antonio. Then, he earned board certification in Physical Medicine, Electrodiagnostic Medicine, Pain Medicine, Pain Management, Age Management Medicine, and Regenerative Medicine and he is currently completing a fellowship in Aesthetic Medicine.

A frontrunner in his field, Dr. Windsor has been board certified by the American Board of Physical Medicine, American Board of Pain Medicine, American Board of Pain Management, American Board of Electrodiagnostic Medicine, American Board of Age Management Medicine, and the American Board of Regenerative Medicine. In appreciation of his service, Dr. Windsor was honored as America's Top Physician by the Consumers Research Council of America in 2014. The President of PASSOR, he has received the following PASSOR awards: Distinguished Clinician, Distinguished Committee, and Distinguished Member. He has been active in his field throughout his career, having previously served as the past-Executive Board Member of the AAPM&R.

A lifelong athlete, Dr. Windsor enjoys staying active. He likes lifting weights, snow skiing, scuba diving, boating, and skydiving. He is heavily involved with his family. He has many offspring, several of whom are engaged in the medical field.

Dr. Windsor dedicates this recognition to Stanley Herring, MD, Richard Derby, MD, Charles April, MD, and Daniel Dumitru, MD, Ph.D. For more information, please visit https://www.garegenrx.com

Contact: Katherine Green, 516-825-5634[emailprotected]

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LONDON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Technavio has been monitoring the precision medicine software market and it is poised to grow by USD 882.65 mn during 2020-2024, progressing at a CAGR of about 11% during the forecast period. The report offers an up-to-date analysis regarding the current market scenario, latest trends and drivers, and the overall market environment.

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The market is fragmented, and the degree of fragmentation will accelerate during the forecast period. F. Hoffmann-La Roche Ltd., Fabric Genomics Inc., Gene42 Inc., Human Longevity Inc., International Business Machines Corp., Koninklijke Philips NV, NantHealth Inc., Roper Technologies Inc., SOPHiA GENETICS SA, and Syapse Inc. are some of the major market participants. The benefits of precision medicine will offer immense growth opportunities. To make most of the opportunities, market vendors should focus more on the growth prospects in the fast-growing segments, while maintaining their positions in the slow-growing segments.

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Anna Symonds, Education and Partnership Manager for East Fork Cultivars, has been a rugby player for 18 years and attributes a lot of her longevity as a professional athlete to cannabis.

While she experimented with cannabis as a teenager, she discontinued this practice when she got more serious about sports. After she smoked with some teammates after a game, she experienced immediate healing and muscle relaxation. I started to have this mental shift of seeing cannabis as medicine. About five years ago after she got a back injury, cannabis proved to be the only thing that would provide her with pain relief and muscle relaxation, while increasing her functionality without the side effects from other medications.

Some time ago, Symonds observed how she would play better if she smoked the night before. In addition, it helped with the anxiety that comes before a competition, as well as relaxing the mind and body. Also, the munchies enabled her to take in enough good calories so she could power up for the next day.

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By microdosing before practice with a 1:1 full spectrum chocolate edible containing 1 mg THC, Symonds found the sweet spot where her pain would reduce and her mind would get into flow state where she was fully present and performing fully optimally.

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Nathan Quarry, a Former UFC contender and ZombieCageFighter, grew up as a Jehovahs Witness, where he was indoctrinated into the Refer Madness way of thinking about marijuana as a drug. From day one, I was told that if I smoked marijuana, I would be excommunicated from the church and God would kill me at Armageddon.

In his twenties, he began questioning his faith and trained to become a UFC fighter. For twelve years, he took the abuses he suffered as a child and took it out on his opponent. As his injuries mounted, his OxyContin use increased to 120 mg daily.

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Then after taking cannabis on the recommendation of a friend, he slept solidly for eight hours and he felt incredible. Hes now complexly off OxyContin. I start my day with CBD and it really helps to get everything moving.

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While Antonio DeRose, COO, Green House Healthy, has used cannabis recreationally for over 15 years, he didnt begin using this plant to help with his performance and recovery as a trail runner until about 5 to 6 years ago. He describes himself as a wake and bake person. When I wake up in the morning, I use cannabis to recharge my endocannabinoid system. Then I do some sort of physical activity.

DeRose prefers a high dose edible followed by some flower before he runs. Cannabis is a bronchodilator, so it allows me to absorb more oxygen with each breath. He finds cannabis aids in recovery by calming down his nervous system and reducing inflammation. Topicals work well for isolated areas where he has specific pain. Also, he uses hemp as a nutritional supplement, noting that as the body regenerates bones every ten years, technically hes made of hemp.

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My thoughts on awareness of mesothelioma a cancer Ive lived with since 2012 can be summed up in one word: Advocacy.

But being an advocate can mean many different things.

As an eight-year pleural mesothelioma survivor, Ive always stressed the importance of self-advocacy. Educating yourself, pushing back when you dont get the answers youre looking for and having the guts to seek a second or third opinion can make a huge difference in your mesothelioma prognosis.

Mesothelioma is an extremely rare cancer. These answers are sometimes hard to come by and experts are few and far between.

I often worry about patients who may have surgery at a top mesothelioma center in Boston or Houston and then go back home to receive follow-up care from local medical professionals who dont fully understand how to treat this rare disease.

Longevity of care is equally as important as initial treatment following a diagnosis.

Mesothelioma isnt breast cancer. You cant just go to any hospital or cancer center and likely work with experienced oncologists who know the intricacies of the disease.

This is why we need a national mesothelioma registry. Mesothelioma cases may be a fraction of what we see each year for breast cancer or lung cancer, but having a national database can help share information and trends throughout the medical community, in turn increasing awareness and driving more research.

Another thing the medical community is missing is a new champion or face in the fight against mesothelioma. We lost that in 2018 with the death of mesothelioma treatment pioneer Dr. David Sugarbaker.

Theres a distinct difference between an expert and an advocate. Dr. Sugarbaker was a rare example of both.

Finding a cure for a disease starts with research. I believe a national mesothelioma registry would streamline research, giving our nations top scientists up-to-date and relevant data to determine prevalence, incidence rate, risk factors and demographics.

Simply put, the medical community needs a national registry to get a better understanding of this rare cancer.

It will increase awareness, which can drive more research, which hopefully can lead to easier access to novel therapies and clinical trials.

Research takes time, of course. Even if a national registry was approved tomorrow, I may not live to reap the benefits.

But if my diagnosis and experience with mesothelioma can be documented and used as a case study that ultimately helps other patients, Ill count that as a victory.

Doctors should have access to data such as how people are treated and patient outcomes. There should be a centralized place where researchers can go to analyze everyone diagnosed, and patients should have a place to answer very direct questions about their case on a periodic basis.

Knowing more about these individuals would give somebody the opportunity to look at generalities and trends to help improve research.

Mesothelioma has no cure. Finding one is probably more challenging than with more prominent cancers such as breast cancer or lung cancer, but developing a national registry can only increase interest and improve research in the quest to find a cure.

After my diagnosis in 2012, my research on how to best treat my cancer quickly led me to Boston and Brigham and Womens Hospital.

Specifically, it led me to one name: Dr. David Sugarbaker.

Dr. Sugarbaker performed my pleurectomy and decortication procedure shortly before his transition to the Baylor College of Medicine in Houston.

I was fortunate to have the worlds foremost authority on mesothelioma as my surgeon, and I certainly credit him as one of the main reasons Im still alive eight years later.

But Dr. Sugarbaker wasnt just another thoracic surgeon who specialized in asbestos-related diseases.

He was affectionately called Mr. Mesothelioma by his patients and peers. If your life has been affected by mesothelioma in some way, youve likely heard his name.

Sugarbaker was not only a pioneer of mesothelioma treatment, he was an advocate for awareness. He dedicated his life to raising awareness about this cancer, the dangers of asbestos exposure, the importance of early detection and the fight for a cure.

With his death on Aug. 29, 2018, we lost our champion in that fight. We lost our greatest advocate.

There are dozens of brilliant and talented mesothelioma specialists around the country, but I feel like were still missing the face of mesothelioma that Sugarbaker represented.

While Dr. Sugarbaker can never be replaced, my hope is that another doctor will soon assume the heavy burden of being an advocate for change and the driving force of mesothelioma awareness.

I believe, like Sugarbaker did, that we should never stop searching for a cure. We need to keep pushing for breakthrough treatments to turn this disease from a terminal cancer into a treatable, chronic condition.

We need to strive beyond the status quo of the same treatment regimen doctors have relied on for decades and adopt new ideas and novel therapies. We need someone who can rally the medical community and inspire young oncologists to specialize in mesothelioma.

With a national registry and a new expert advocate championing our cause, I believe we can increase awareness and change the course of how mesothelioma is viewed replacing fear with hope.

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ATHENS Poultry researchers at the University of Georgia are partnering with a team from Kansas State University to study how to effectively control the spread of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, in the nations meat and poultry processing facilities.

The study seeks to protect meat plant workers and their surrounding communities from the spread of COVID-19 through practical solutions. The research is funded by a $1 million grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture.

Harsha Thippareddi, John Bekkers Professor in Poultry Science at UGA, and Manpreet Singh, poultry science professor and interim head of the UGA Department of Food Science and Technology, are co-directors of the project along with A. Sally Davis, an assistant professor of experimental pathology in the Kansas State College of Veterinary Medicine. Thippareddi and Singh provide extensive poultry experience and industry connections from the UGA College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences and, with backgrounds as food safety specialists, will lead the grants industry outreach efforts.

A key objective of the project will be verifying the effectiveness of many of the approved cleaners and sanitizers for inactivating SARS-CoV-2 during plant processing and sanitation operations.

Because there have been a number of outbreaks among employees in meat processing plants, there is always a perception that food or meat can be contaminated as well, said Thippareddi.

Frozen chicken wings imported to China from Brazil in August tested positive for SARS-CoV-2, he said.

This is a potential issue and we need to know the answers to what the risks to humans are if the coronavirus is present in food, and will it survive in the food or will it be destroyed during cooking and other food processing operations? he said.

Using Kansas States Biosecurity Research Institute, a high-containment research facility, researchers will study various potential contamination methods for meat and poultry, how long the virus survives on meat products, how various storage and preparation methods influence the infectivity of the virus and what product-treatment methods can be used to mitigate the virus on food products.

Nationally and internationally, many facilities that produce meat and poultry products have been temporarily closed because of COVID-19 outbreaks, said Davis, Kansas States project director of the grant. This has put a major strain on food production, limiting the amount of meat and poultry on grocery store shelves and disrupting food and feed supply chains across the globe. Research is necessary to understand why SARS-CoV-2 is such a problem in meat and poultry processing environments and how we can mitigate the problem.

While animals, such as cattle, swine and chickens, do not carry the virus, infections with SARS-CoV-2 are primarily thought to occur by exposure to microdroplets in the air generated by infected workers.

The ultimate goal would be for us to better understand how the SARS-CoV-2 virus if at all can be transmitted through meat and poultry and through contact surfaces in poultry plants, Singh said.

Thippareddi added, People working in meat processing plants may have the illness and, if it is aerosolizing, the virus can get onto the meat. If it is on the meat, it can get to people. All the poultry processing plants are taking preventive measures to stop the spread of the virus, because if you can prevent people from getting the virus and keep the virus from being aerosolized, you can prevent it getting onto the food.

The team will evaluate potential sources of exposure and determine the amount and the longevity of infectious virus that is present during and after meat processing and packaging activities. Researchers seek to identify, develop, validate, and deliver practical cleaning and disinfection strategies, in addition to developing mathematical models to predict and reduce the risk of SARS-CoV-2 exposure in meat and poultry processing facilities.

The project also will rely on input from an industry advisory board comprising senior-level directors of food safety and plant operations at Hormel Foods, Smithfield Foods, National Beef Packing Company, Cargill Protein North America, JBS USA, Wayne Farms, Jennie-O Turkey Store, Tyson Fresh Meats and Costco Wholesale.

Thippareddi and Singh will conduct site visits at various meat and poultry processing plants to evaluate current processing methods and to lead discussions with processors on COVID-19 mitigation strategies, develop new food safety training materials based on the needs of meat processors of varying sizes, conduct web-based trainings based on the research outcomes of the project, and assist in publishing the research findings.

The goal is to provide guidance to the meat-processing industry in the form of science-based best practices, Singh said.

For information on the UGA Department of Poultry Science, visit poultry.caes.uga.edu.

Joe Montgomery is director of communications at the College of Veterinary Medicine at Kansas State University.

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