GlycanAge Blog: Health · Page 5
Discover health insights with GlycanAge. Explore biological age, inflammation, glycans, and expert tips for improving longevity and overall well-being.
How to Reduce Inflammation in the Body Fast
Inflammation often gets a bad rep, and sometimes, undeservedly so. There are times when inflammation is actually a good thing, acting as the body’s natural protective response to fight internal or external damage, known as acute inflammation.
Published:April 13, 2023
Reading time:15 minutes
A Comprehensive Overview of Blood Tests for Inflammatory Markers
Inflammatory markers are indications of inflammation throughout the body.
Published:April 13, 2023
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The Ultimate Guide to the Different Inflammation Blood Tests
Inflammation is a crucial aspect of the body's defence mechanism. Essentially, it entails the immune system's identification and eradication of harmful stimuli, thus commencing the process of healing.
Published:April 13, 2023
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Blood Tests for Chronic Inflammation – Explained
The general belief is that inflammation must always be eliminated, yet it serves a crucial purpose in safeguarding and preserving your body through wound repair and recovery. In essence, the truth is that indications of inflammation are comparable to an automobile's engine light on the dashboard, which alerts you that…
Published:April 13, 2023
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Follicle Stimulating Hormone (FSH) Blood Tests Explained
The male and female reproductive systems involve a complex network of processes that require a delicate balance in order to function optimally. While the reproductive systems of both genders have a unique composition of organs with different functions, both are equally important in enabling procreation.
Published:March 20, 2023
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
Reading time:5 minutes