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"It is also vital to burning fat, and that is why along with fatigue, elderly individuals often gain weight and often store the fat gained in the abdominal region. DHEA levels drop dramatically as people age.Young adults have almost unlimited energy (and high DHEA levels); elderly people have relatively little. And although there are many factors in why you are Spent, a lack of DHEA may be the missing key. There are also pronounced differences in the average DHEA levels of men and women, with women on average having lower DHEA levels." - Frank Lipman, Mollie Doyle, Spent: Revive: Stop Feeling Spent and Feel Great Again (Get the book.)

"Vitamin D-deficiency is associated with depression, prostate cancer, breast cancer, osteoporosis and almost every other degenerative disorder. "The elderly, who spend little time in the sun and use sunscreen agents frequently, may be at risk for vitamin D deficiency," according to a statement made by the Mayo Clinic. Vitamin D deficiency is strongly associated with bone disease and fracture. Makes you wonder why so many elderly people suffer from bone disorders." - Andreas Moritz, Cancer Is Not A Disease - It's A Survival Mechanism (Get the book.)

"My wife's first concern was the elderly woman. "We've got to get her out of here," she said. We roused the others from their quiet relaxation in the stream and told them of the approaching storm. Together, we helped the elderly woman up the steep embankment and onto the trail above the creek bank. By then, the crew from the boat appeared, running up the trail, yelling, "Get out! Get back to the boat! A storm's coming. Hurry!" Everyone made it back to the boat just as the heavens opened up with a thunderous downpour." - Robert Waggoner, Lucid Dreaming: Gateway to the Inner Self (Get the book.)

"Tai chi, a form of exercise often used by elderly Chinese that is becoming popular throughout the world, improves balance and cuts the risk of falls in half for people 70 years of age and older. Adequate calcium and vitamin D intake is also essential: the daily goal should be 1200-1500 mg of calcium (usually no more than 1000 mg from supplements are needed), and 400 to 800IU of vitamin D. The cost of generic calcium and vitamin D is about $3.60 per month. Studies also suggest that diets with a higher ratio of animal to vegetable proteins increase the rate of bone loss in women 65 and older." - John Abramson, Overdosed America: The Broken Promise of American Medicine (P.S.) (Get the book.)

"These safety precautions are especially critical for those living alone and the elderly. Not surprisingly, smell loss, like a stuffy nose, is often a sign that your nasal passages are clogged from a cold, allergy, sinus infection, nasal polyp, or tumor. But it may also signal a zinc deficiency. (Zinc, in fact, is sometimes used to help restore the SIGNIFICANT FACT In general, women have a keener sense of smell than men; it's most acute around sense of smell.) Loss of smell from these causes tends to develop gradually and is usually temporary." - Joan Liebmann-Smith, Ph. D., and Jacqueline Nardi Egan, Body Signs: From Warning Signs to False Alarms...How to Be Your Own Diagnostic Detective (Get the book.) "While it's common for the elderly to lose weight as they age—usually less than a pound a year—losing more than that appears to signal the imminent onset of this neurological disorder. We've probably all experienced putting on a few extra pounds, especially around the holidays. This is usually a benign sign of lack of restraint around the buffet table. But sudden weight gain can also signal some serious and not-so-serious systemic problems. Putting on weight in a matter of a day or two can be due to fluid retention (edema)." - Joan Liebmann-Smith, Ph. D., and Jacqueline Nardi Egan, Body Signs: From Warning Signs to False Alarms...How to Be Your Own Diagnostic Detective (Get the book.) "They're potentially life-threatening because they can lead to hyperthermia, heat exhaustion, heat stroke, and ultimately death. The elderly are at especially high risk because they have a decreased ability to sweat anyway. They may not realize they're overheated until it's too late and they succumb to heat exhaustion. Although sweat disorders can be signs of some serious genetic diseases, most cases are acquired." - Joan Liebmann-Smith, Ph. D., and Jacqueline Nardi Egan, Body Signs: From Warning Signs to False Alarms...How to Be Your Own Diagnostic Detective (Get the book.)

"A prospective study of consumption of carotenoids in fruits and vegetables and decreased cardiovascular mortality in the elderly. Ann Epidemiol. 1995; 5:255-260. Gustafsson K, Asp NG, Hagander B, Nyman M, Schweizer T. Influence of processing and cooking of carrots in mixed meals on satiety, glucose and hormonal response. Int J Food Sci Nutr. 1995 Feb;46(l):3-12. Kritchevsky SB. Beta-carotene, carotenoids and the prevention of coronary heart dis-ease.JNutr. 1999 Jan;129(l):5-8. Michaud DS, Feskanich D, Rimm EB, et al." - David W. Grotto, RD, LDN, 101 Foods That Could Save Your Life! (Get the book.)

"The incidence of hypomagnesemia was higher in females and those with various disease syndromes. elderly people, especially women, were most at risk for hypomagnesemia; one-third of this subpopulation was affected. This data clearly demonstrates that magnesium deficiency has become a significant factor in metabolic health. Magnesium is an essential element that's critical for energy-requiring processes, protein synthesis, membrane integrity, nervous tissue conduction, neuromuscular excitation, muscle contraction, hormone secretion, maintenance of vascular tone, and intermediary metabolism." - Stephen T. Sinatra, M.D., The Sinatra Solution Metabolic Cardiology (Get the book.)

"DEMENTIA AND ALZHEIMER'S: One mouse study confirmed that curcumin significantly lowers oxidized proteins and inflammatory cytokines associated with Alzheimer's. elderly people who ate curry at least once a month scored better on tests to measure cognitive function than those who reported they ate curry less frequently. SKIN CANCER: In an animal study, turmeric was shown to reduce skin tumor size by thirty percent and skin tumor occurrence by eighty-seven percent compared to the control group. A study out of the University of Texas M. D." - David W. Grotto, RD, LDN, 101 Foods That Could Save Your Life! (Get the book.) "One of those studies, reported over ten years ago in a leading journal, followed 1,300 elderly persons who ate at least one serving of carrots and/or squash each day. The results.showed that those who were on the carotenoid-rich diet had a sixty percent reduction in their risk of heart attacks compared to those who ate less than one serving. CANCER: High carotenoid intake has been linked with a twenty percent decrease in postmenopausal breast cancer and up to a fifty percent decrease in the incidence of cancers of the bladder, cervix, prostate, colon, larynx, and esophagus." - David W. Grotto, RD, LDN, 101 Foods That Could Save Your Life! (Get the book.)

"Salt sensitivity has been reported to be more common in obese and insulin-resistant individuals, African Americans, the elderly, and women with high blood pressure. For these people, lowering salt intake to the recommended levels is especially important. To summarize, sodium is a needed nutrient, but most people take in levels high enough to increase the risk of cardiovascular disease. Much of the sodium consumed is hidden in processed food. Chloride Chlorine (chemical symbol CI) is a poisonous, greenish-yellow gas in the halogen family of elements." - Dr. Steve Blake, Vitamins and Minerals Demystified (Get the book.)

"One European study involved thirty-eight elderly patients with congestive heart failure who were taking traditional medical therapies, including digitalis, diuretics, and anti-arrhythmic agents. Twenty-one were treated with oral L-carnitine at a dose of 1 gram twice daily for forty-five days. The seventeen controls were placed on placebo. Although both groups demonstrated improvement in NYHA classes, the L-carnitine group experienced a significant reduction in the incidence of cardiac arrhythmias, particularly premature ventricular contractions." - Stephen T. Sinatra, M.D., The Sinatra Solution Metabolic Cardiology (Get the book.)

"In fact, there are studies from the Mayo Clinic that should call a halt to performing radical surgery for ob- struction in the frail elderly in the quest for "cure." A simple bypass procedure with a colostomy is palliative; it can allow for a tolerable and comfortable end of life without the trauma and risks of aggressive therapy. The Natural History of Colorectal Cancer: The Devil Is in the Details From autopsy studies, we have a reasonable idea of the age-dependent prevalence of the early stages in the evolution of colorectal cancer." - Nortin M. Hadler MD, Worried Sick: A Prescription for Health in an Overtreated America (Get the book.)

"It also makes sense that a broken hip in these frail elderly women often marks the transition to no longer being able to live independently or walk safely without assistance. Do the osteoporosis drugs protect these women from hip fractures? They don't appear to. The study of Actonel published in NEJM in 2001 included 3880 women over the age of 80 who had been diagnosed with osteoporosis or who had at least one major risk factor for falls (approximately 80 percent of the women in the study had osteoporosis)." - John Abramson, Overdosed America: The Broken Promise of American Medicine (P.S.) (Get the book.) "This risk increased each year these elderly patients took the statin, so that by the fourth year of the study there was more than 1 extra case of cancer for every 100 people taking a statin each year. The 2001 cholesterol guidelines were reassuring about statins' not causing cancer: "There is no evidence that currently used cholesterol-lowering drugs promote development of cancer...." However, a paper titled "Carcinogenicity of Lipid-Lowering Drugs," published in JAMA in 1996, was apparently overlooked." - John Abramson, Overdosed America: The Broken Promise of American Medicine (P.S.) (Get the book.)

"For example, in closing out the estate of an elderly person one may be surprised to see that they purchased a house in 1948 for only $16,000 and that the estate sold that same house in 2004 for $190,000. The appearance is that the investment in the house did extremely well. But, in fact, the Consumer Price Index rose eightfold between 1948 and 2004, and so in fact the real increase in value was only 48%, an increase of less than 1% a year. Moreover, part of the increase should be attributed to a sequence of investments in the house or the neighborhood that improved its quality." - Brian Fagan, Floods, Famines, and Emperors: El Nino and the Fate of Civilizations (Get the book.) "Now the Baby Boom and the subsequent Baby Bust have created a looming social security crisis in many countries of the world: when the Boomers grow old and finally retire, the number of young working people available to support the elderly population will decline worldwide.18 The Baby Boom in the United States was marked by very high birth rates during the years 1946-66, and so there were at the peak of the market in 2000 (and will be for some time) an unusually large number of people between the ages of 35 and 55." - Brian Fagan, Floods, Famines, and Emperors: El Nino and the Fate of Civilizations (Get the book.) "Thus those with little savings will have to fend for themselves in a world with many more dependent elderly relative to the young. They may have to live very simply—and that may mean sitting at home. Colleges and foundations with endowments heavily invested in stocks may find that their ability to pursue their missions has suddenly been curtailed." - Brian Fagan, Floods, Famines, and Emperors: El Nino and the Fate of Civilizations (Get the book.) "Retirement Plans Should Be Put on a Sounder Footing The growth since the bottom of the market in 1982 of employer-sponsored defined contribution pension plans (in which the company makes contributions to an investment fund that is owned by the employee), in contrast to older defined benefit plans (in which the company guarantees specified pension benefits to the employee upon retirement), has marked a shift away from a notion of shared responsibility for the elderly toward a feeling that each person is responsible for his or her own welfare." - Brian Fagan, Floods, Famines, and Emperors: El Nino and the Fate of Civilizations (Get the book.)

"Clark's elderly father moved into the area, I became his doctor as well. As I observed her deft handling of her father's needs and demands, I began then to get a sense of Mrs. Clark's unusual competence. She shared with me how difficult her childhood relationship with her father had been. I could see that he still had the potential to be difficult? 55 especially with her. She worked hard to get things right. Her requests of me and my office were reasonable, and she advocated well on behalf of her family and herself. Then she was diagnosed with breast cancer. Mrs." - John Abramson, Overdosed America: The Broken Promise of American Medicine (P.S.) (Get the book.)

"Early during her first stay she was visited by the elderly shaman ("big woman") of the village. A short while later George had a dream in which the shaman spoke to her. In the morning, before the anthropologist saw anyone or had even left her hut, the sons of the shaman came to ask if she had understood what their mother had been saying. Later George had further dreams in which the shaman provided information she was seeking. The correctness of the information was borne out by subsequent inquiry, and the sons of the shaman always knew of the messages." - Ervin Laszlo, Quantum Shift in the Global Brain: How the New Scientific Reality Can Change Us and Our World (Get the book.)

"Tai chi is another meditative art, and although there is a martial form of it that can be used in hand-to-hand combat, the form of it that will benefit your child is the one you'll often see groups of elderly Chinese men and women doing in a park. It is a centuries-old East Asian art with a focus on controlled, slow-motion kung-fu movements (unlike yoga and traditional meditation, which utilize poses and postures) and regulated breathing. It is useful in diminishing anxiety and depression, and millions of Chinese are believers in its benefits." - Jay Gordon, The ADD and ADHD Cure: The Natural Way to Treat Hyperactivity and Refocus Your Child (Get the book.)

"In the past, healthy adult men were at greater risk than anybody else—children and the elderly tended to be malnourished, with corresponding iron deficiencies, and adult women are regularly iron depleted by menstruation, pregnancy, and breast-feeding. It might be that, as Stephen Ell, a professor at the University of Iowa, wrote, "Iron status mirror[ed] mortality. Adult males were at highest risk on this basis, with women [who lose iron through menstruation], children, and the elderly relatively spared." - Dr. Sharon Moalem, Survival of the Sickest: A Medical Maverick Discovers Why We Need Disease (Get the book.)

"Cereal, fruit, and vegetable fiber intake and the risk of cardiovascular disease in elderly individuals. JAMA. 2003 Apr 2;289(13):1659-1666. Pietinen P, Stumpf K, Mannisto S, Kataja V, Uusitupa M, Adlercreutz H. Serum en-terolactone and risk of breast cancer: a case-control study in eastern Finland. Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev. 2001 Apr;10(4):339-344. Wikstrom P et al. Rye bran diet increases epithelial cell apoptosis and decreases epithelial cell volume in TRAMP (transgenic adenocarcinoma of the mouse prostate) tumors. Nutr Cancer. 2005;53(1):111-116." - David W. Grotto, RD, LDN, 101 Foods That Could Save Your Life! (Get the book.)

"After studying bone metabolism in elderly women, Dr. Jane Kerstetter of the University of Connecticut says in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition that healthy women need an average of 1.2 grams per kilogram per day, or 0.55 gram per pound of body weight of protein per day to maintain bone mass. Your protein intake should be about half your ideal body weight in grams. A 150-pound person needs a protein intake of 75 grams per day. Using the following chart, you can figure out how much meat you need to eat to get enough daily protein." - James Dowd and Diane Stafford, The Vitamin D Cure (Get the book.)

"Deficiency Risk Factors Breast-fed infants not exposed to sunlight. The elderly have less ability to synthesize vitamin D in the skin. Institutionalized people of all ages. People with dark skin. People who live in cold climates. Vitamin D deficiency can also harm adults. Adult bones can slowly become deficient in calcium and phosphorus. This can result in soft bones, known as osteomalacia. Osteomalacia can cause a bent posture and bowed legs from chronic vitamin D deficiency. Vitamin D deficiency can be a contributor to osteoporosis." - Dr. Steve Blake, Vitamins and Minerals Demystified (Get the book.)

"Fourteen percent of hip fractures can be attributed to confusion related to a sleeping pill or other psychotropic drug; in the elderly, hip fracture is associated with a high mortality rate. Another study found that out of 308 older adults with cognitive impairment, 11% of the cases of impairment were related to a drug they were on, and in 46% of those cases, the culprit was a sleeping pill. Often cognitive function had deteriorated slowly over the many years these patients had been on a sleeping pill. After stopping the pill, all patients had long-term improvement in cognitive function." - J. Douglas Bremner, Before You Take that Pill: Why the Drug Industry May Be Bad for Your Health (Get the book.)

"Were a standard medical practice such as influenza vaccines to disappear, the effect on mortality among the elderly would be negligible. The example seemed to illustrate our thesis. Perhaps we actually could assess medicine's performance with a thought experiment. THREE GIANTS We are like dwarfs on the shoulders of giants, purportedly said Bernard d'Chartres, the twelfth-century French philosopher. To the extent that he saw further and clearer, he said, it was not because of sharper vision, but rather that he was carried on the shoulders of giants." - Gerald E. Markle and Frances B. McCrea, What If Medicine Disappeared? (Get the book.)

"B12 deficiency is more likely to be a cause of depression in elderly people who don't absorb the nutrient well. In my own clinical experience, elderly individuals that appeared to have Alzheimer's disease have responded remarkably well to a series of B12 and folic acid injections, showing an increase in memory, thinking ability, and mood. Dose: 500-1,000 meg daily. Folic Acid/Folate Folic acid, also known as folate, also helps to prevent depression." - Hyla Cass, Supplement Your Prescription: What Your Doctor Doesn't Know About Nutrition (Get the book.)

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