Rate Your Anti Aging Supplements

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Here’s a chance to rate your anti aging supplements and help out a Princeton student at the same time.

There’s a new Drug rating site and they need some help with their anti aging supplement section. Ajibike Lapite approached me and asked if my readers would help him rate some of their anti aging supplements.

Here’s a little more information about the site and the program, but if you’d like to just go and start rating, go here:

RateADrug Anti Aging Supplements

RateADrug calls itself the user’s guide to prescription drugs and supplements. In truth, this self-proclaimed entirely encompasses the website’s purpose. Through user surveys that analyze the benefits of particular prescription drugs and supplements, the side effects of these prescription drugs and supplements, and changes in result to beginning these medical treatments, RateADrug forms comparison charts that show which medication (in a certain category) is more beneficial than the other. This is the case in regard to cancer, nausea, and cell health and anti-aging treatments.

Over 10,000 surveys have been completed for over 9,000 prescription drugs and supplements for 150 classes of medications/supplements, this number is significantly growing on a daily basis. On a rotating basis, RateADrug has a PPREP internship program for high school seniors and undergraduates with medical school aspirations. These students have a four month rotation and collect at least 100 surveys. These students hail from Princeton University, Cornell University, University of Chicago, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and other top schools. Along with these surveys comes research that each intern handles in regard to each focus (cancer, nausea, etcetera).

One recent Princeton University intern is doing research on cell health and anti-aging treatment. Ajibike Lapite’s research not only shows ground-breaking results in the field of cell health and ati-aging medication, but also evaluates the efficacy and efficiency of certain popular treatments such as Botox, Green Tea, and even Human Growth Hormone. In addition, Ajibike is required to search for alternative treatments to add to the number of supplements being surveyed under the category of cell health and anti-aging treatment.

RateADrug allows for individuals to evaluate their current medication, compare conventional and alternative treatments, and allows for patients to receive information about their medication without the bias of drug companies. Through the comments of other users and table results of drug efficiency, individuals can truly come to see how safe and useful a certain medication is, and in addition these individuals know what side effects or benefits to expect.

Disclaimer: Some of the links mentioned within this post or posts it may lead to are my affiliate links and in such case I will get compensated for recommending those products.

And The Winner of the Most Popular Dietary Supplement Is…

Consumer Labs recently released its annual survey of popular dietary supplements.  This survey is conducted among their newsletter subscribers.  The sample included over 6,000 respondents and most of them took multiple supplements. So what are the most popular supplements among the people that take supplements? Read more

Disclaimer: Some of the links mentioned within this post or posts it may lead to are my affiliate links and in such case I will get compensated for recommending those products.

Don’t Mess Around With High Blood Pressure

As most of you know, I’ve been messing around with my high blood pressure for well over a year now, trying to get it down with good nutrition, exercise and supplements. Read here: Blood Pressure – My Story.  Sometimes the natural way just doesn’t work.

It did for a while, especially after I started taking Magnesium Orotate. However, it didn’t last and I found myself finally going to the doctor to get the medicine.

What really motivated me (outside of family nagging) was finding out that high blood pressure can actually create very small strokes in your brain which they think can be a cause of Alzheimer’s.  The strokes basically go unnoticed until it’s too late.

Needless to say, the doctor was not a happy camper when he took my blood pressure and it was 215/115. Yikes! That’s definitely dangerous!

So he ordered a whole bunch of tests (everything came back fine) and prescribed a low dose hypertension medicine.  After a few days, I’m back to normal -  even better than normal.  I haven’t seen 115/75 in years!

I did ask if I’d have to be on it forever and he said the chances are yes – I’m doing everything right and I’m still having high blood pressure.  There are really no lifestyle changes I should be making – well, maybe less salt.

So now I’m one of the millions of older Americans on a prescription medication, which saddens me a little. But my friends and family are happy that I’m not going to stroke out on them, so that’s certainly worth it.

Moral of the story? Do everything you can to control your high blood pressure, but don’t be foolish.  One small pill a day is worth the peace of mind.

 

Pet Supplements – Can You Slow Aging In Animals?

We all want our pets to live long and healthy lives, but it turns out that our furry friends are just as susceptible to the diseases of aging as we are. And there are numerous pet supplements on the market aimed at helping them. Some of them work on specific ailments, but nothing is out there that works on many of the diseases associated with aging, such as arthritis, diabetes and cancer. Until now. Read more

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