Tag Archives: aging

How to Subtract 12 Years from Your Life

Dr. Stephen Boyd

In April 2010, a paper published in the Archives of Internal Medicine¹ examined individually and collectively the effects of four behaviors on mortality in adults. The behaviors examined were physical activity, diet, smoking and alcohol consumption.

Experts Recommend Vitamin D Supplementation

Dr. Stephen Boyd

Recently the American Academy of Pediatrics¹ (AAP) and authors published in the British Medical Journal² (BMJ) and the Journal of Nutrition³ recommended that people of all ages, from children to older adults, increase vitamin D levels in the body using nutritional supplements.

Multivitamins and “Biological Age”

Dr. Stephen Boyd

We all have two ages. The most well known is our chronological age, the difference between today’s date and the date we were born. It is an exact number, and tomorrow we will be precisely one day older. Less well known is our biological age. This can be older, younger or the same as your [...]