GlycanAge Blog: Health · Page 4
Discover health insights with GlycanAge. Explore biological age, inflammation, glycans, and expert tips for improving longevity and overall well-being.
What Can Low Back Pain Tell Us About Our Health – and How to Manage It?
Changes in glycans point to chronic inflammation as a possible long-term underlying cause of low back pain and fatigue, even if there is no injury to the tissue.
Published:September 16, 2022
Reading time:10 minutes
Conducting Your Own Self-experiment in Order to Improve Your Biological Age
Ageing, whilst wholly a natural process, isn’t necessarily something we would want to embrace. Advancing age is a risk factor for heart disease, declining metabolic function, certain cancers, and a myriad of other conditions of poor health. Since the start of the COVID19 pandemic, we cannot escape the continual messag…
Published:April 16, 2022
Reading time:10 minutes
How to Slow Down Skin Ageing?
Radiant, great looking skin is often considered evidence of overall good health. Internal imbalances in sex hormones that happen with ageing can disrupt delicate harmony in the body and cause skin changes that seemingly give a person an older appearance. Hormone replacement with bioidentical hormones stands out as an …
Published:March 30, 2022
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Ageing With Different Clocks – What Do They Reveal About Our Health?
The pace of biological ageing is a crucial determinant of health but not all ageing clocks show the same.
Published:October 21, 2021
Reading time:5 minutes
Glycans and Autoimmune Disease
Autoimmune diseases (AD) occur when the body’s immune system malfunctions. It mistakenly identifies healthy cells as foreign cells and starts attacking and destroying them as it would an invading infectious germ. Some AD target only one organ. Type 1 diabetes damages the pancreas. Others, like systemic lupus erythemat…
Published:September 7, 2021
Reading time:5 minutes
Your glycans could predict high blood pressure before it becomes a health issue
Cardiovascular and cerebrovascular events appear swiftly and seemingly without any warning. In a matter of a day, an individual's life can be ended or faced with long-lasting consequences such as having to learn to walk or talk again. One of the main risk factors for these events is hypertension (an increased blood pr…
Published:July 21, 2021
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Mirror, Mirror on the Wall: Why Do Women Age Faster During Menopause?
Science has been fascinated for years with what goes on beyond the mirror – a link between sex hormones and age-related processes that define and contribute to the biological aging in women.
Published:July 7, 2021
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Working Out - How Exercising Affects Our Immunity
The immune system is a complex machine made up of many parts. Exercise can help boost our health by keeping this machine “well-oiled,” but it is crucial to have a balanced routine that won’t overstress the gears.
Published:June 30, 2021
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Planing Meals According to Glycans - A New Concept to a Blood Type Diet?
“You are what you eat.” Simple, right? Healthy eating means healthy living. But human bodies are different, and we don't all have the same nutritive requirements as individuals.
Published:June 30, 2021
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An Old Cure for a New Cause – Weight Loss as an Anti-Ageing Strategy
Burning the right kind of fat does not only look good on the outside – it reverts the inner mechanics of the damage caused by obesity.
Published:May 6, 2021
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Prof Azra Raza's Lecture for The Human Glycome Project Researchers
Azra Raza is an oncologist, and professor of medicine, and director of the Myelodysplastic Syndrome Center at Columbia University, New York. She has dedicated almost her entire life to fighting cancer and discovering ways to prevent it by detecting the first cancer cell in the human body.
Published:May 5, 2021
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What Are Vaccines Doing to Our Bodies, and Could Sugars Make the Vaccines Better?
The emerging interest in modulating antibody effector activity against pathogens and developing strategies that can modulate antibody effector function in vivo are highly desirable. A major stumbling block in the design of such vaccines is a lack of technology to determine protein glycosylation sites.
Published:February 19, 2021
Reading time:10 minutes