How strong is your grip?

Did you know your grip can predict your overall health, strength, and risk of heart disease?  As you age, the stronger the grip, the more likely to survive diseases such as cancer.  After age 40, muscles tend to lose their mass.  A strong grip at an older age is an indication of longevity.  There are…

HOW FIT IS YOUR BRAIN? Free Brain-Fit habit tracker

New App helps you get & stay BrainFit. BrainFit is the only app of its kind to focus on optimizing brain health, with an emphasis on each of the Six Pillars of Brain Health—  Exercise. Nutrition, Mental Stimulation, Social Activity, Stress Management, Sleep. Completely free. BrainFit provides users with timely and substantiated information to foster…

Are Omega-3 fatty acid supplements a substitute for eating seafood & other fatty fish?

Omega-3’s found in salmon & fatty fish support a healthy heart, brain, and eyes and support of your cell membranes.While taking fish oil supplements may seem easier than eating fish twice a week, they have a more limitedfatty acid profile than whole fish and don’t contain selenium, which reduces mercury toxicity. Learn more about Omega-3’s today…

New Pneumomia Vaccine with 20 types of bacteria

New Pneumonia Vaccine is now available. Pneumococcal disease is a serious infection caused by bacteria that can infect the sinuses, inner ear, lungs, blood, and brain. Newer vaccines contain 20 different types of pneumococcal bacteria to help your body develop immunity to the disease. #marilynwetston#zoomereradio. Every #satmorning #zoomereradio What you need to know about Pneumococcal…

The Four Pillars of Healthy Aging

The new year is a chance for new resolutions. Or perhaps what we really need is a refresh of previous plans, resolutions, and goals that we have made many times before. Why haven’t we succeeded? Were we too ambitious, too hopeful, too unrealistic to maintain the road forward. I think that, as we contemplate where…

Healthy Aging: What is the best advice when it comes to Aspirin?

In order to understand whether we should be using Aspirin to prevent a cardiac event, it is essential to understand the difference between primary and secondary prevention. Primary prevention is for people who are healthy, not at risk of a given event and are choosing to do something to try to prevent an episode. In…