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Living Past 100: Insights from Centenarians on a Long, Healthy Life

Dr. Paddy Barrett

Their diets are often poor. It’s not that they don’t get cardiovascular disease, cancer or dementia; they just get it way later than everyone else. When broken down by disease category, cardiovascular disease, cancer, dementia, stroke, osteoarthritis, hypertension and stroke, the pattern is the same.

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What To Eat To Lose Weight & Maintain Muscle

Dr. Paddy Barrett

Even in diabetics of normal weight (BMI<27), weight loss can reverse diabetes 2. Please go and read every single GLP-1 trial on weight loss (Average 15 kg) and show me where they got everyone to go on an extremely low-carb diet to avoid insulin spikes. That’s not to say that using a low-carb diet is not effective.

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Physiology Friday #202: Should You be Taking a Multivitamin for Cognitive Health? A New Study Suggests Yes.

Physiologically Speaking

It’s also likely that most people aren’t getting all of the nutrients they need from their diet even if they think they are. COSMOS tested a cocoa extract supplement and a multivitamin-mineral supplement against one another and a placebo for reducing the risk of cardiovascular disease and cancer. Nutritional insurance?

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FDA Approves Wegovy for Cardiovascular Risk Reduction in Adults with Known Heart Disease and Overweight or Obesity

DAIC

Food and Drug Administration ( FDA ) has approved an additional indication for Wegovy ( semaglutide ) to reduce the risk of major cardiovascular events such as death, heart attack, or stroke in adults with known heart disease and with either obesity or overweight along with a reduced calorie diet and increased physical activity.

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