A client was just telling me how the network of a mushroom’s roots reminds her of fascia. I’d have to say that I agree. Especially in how both have been misunderstood, ignored and only recently are attitudes changing so that we are learning about the value of each. Read more at: Mycelium Running
Archives for November 2010
The New Science of Reverse Aging
November 8, 2010 by
Scientists have pinpointed the exact part of our DNA that links stress to aging. Danielle Friedman on how your doctor will soon test you for it—and 10 ways to turn back the clock now.
For Thea Singer, stress isn’t an abstract concept. Three years ago, shortly before the manuscript for her book was due to her publisher, her elderly mother’s health deteriorated. Suffering from severe emphysema, she clung to life through a ventilator, as Singer coordinated her care. Around the same time, Singer’s daughter entered her pre-teens, and their usually serene relationship became challenging. “It was an incredibly, incredibly stressful time,” she says.
Yet fortuitously for the Boston-based science writer, the book she was working round-the-clock to report and write aimed to mitigate these very types of stressors—along with larger issues Americans grapple with, from financial woes to terrorist threats. Specifically, Singer was exploring cutting-edge research into how stress ages us.
This fall, the product of her work hit shelves. In Stress Less: The New Science That Shows Women How to Rejuvenate the Body and the Mind
Read more at: The New Science of Reverse Aging
Danielle Friedman is a homepage editor and reporter for The Daily Beast. Previously, she spent five years working as a nonfiction book editor for Hudson Street Press and Plume, two imprints of Penguin Group. She’s a graduate of the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.
