The 5 Minute Pill
A 5 minute pill of physical activity can improve your longevity by 30% if you are not active at all
Audio and Text
www.atmasvasth.com/pa19
#atmasvasth #healthfulageing #longevity #lifespan #healthspan #physicalactivity #5mins
A Case for the Shingles Vaccine
Taking the shingles vaccine after the age of 50 is likely to improve healthspan
Audio and Text
www.atmasvasth.com/vaccines03
#atmasvasth #healthfulageing #longevity #lifespan #healthspan #zoster #shingles #vaccine #herpeszoster
Revisiting Cardiovascular Risk Assessment with QRISK3
An objective measurement of cardiovascular risk can help with better management of risk factors to help reduce the risk of heart attacks and stroke.
Audio and text
www.atmasvasth.com/cvrisk06/
#atmasvasth #healthfulageing #longevity #lifespan
Being Safe on the Roads is as Important as Screening for Cancer
Since we can't depend on the system to help with road safety, it is up to take all precautions possible to avoid getting injured or killed.
Audio and text
www.atmasvasth.com/roadaccident...
#atmasvasth #healthfulageing #longevity
Tech Fixes to Manage Hearing Loss
Using apps on your phone, you can enhance sound or transcribe in real time.
Audio and text
www.atmasvasth.com/hearingloss03/
#atmasvasth #healthfulageing #longevity #lifespan #healthspan #hearingloss #livecaptions
Does an Ideal Diet Exist?
The word "diet" just means the food you eat daily, not a word to denote a way to lose weight. An ideal diet does not exist, but a sensible food plan goes a long way in helping us live long, healthy.
Audio and text
www.atmasvasth.com/food11/
#atmasvasth #healthfulageing
The Unfounded Perceived Dangers of Running
Running is better than walking. Recreational running as against running marathons is NOT associated with harm, including damage to the knees or sudden death.
Audio and text
www.atmasvasth.com/pa18/
#atmasvasth #healthfulageing #longevity #lifespan
Updated Salt and Sodium Guidelines and Research
Reduction of salt to < 1 teaspoon per day and substitution with low sodium, potassium containing alternatives, saves lives.
Audio and text
www.atmasvasth.com/salt04/
#atmasvasth #healthfulageing #longevity #lifespan #healthspan #salt #sodium
Balancing Safety and Freedom: Understanding "Dignity of Risk"
It is important to carefully tread the line between imposing the indignity of safety versus the dignity of risk.
Audio and text
www.atmasvasth.com/dignityofrisk/
#atmasvasth #healthfulageing #lifespan #healthspan #dignityofrisk
How Long and Healthy Will We Live?
There is a limit to longevity. Physical activity is perhaps the single most important factor to help us increase healthspan. 5 new 2024 papers
Audio & text
www.atmasvasth.com/healthspan05/
#atmasvasth #healthfulageing #longevity #lifespan #healthspan
How to Reduce and Manage Healthcare Costs
Healthcare costs are rising (tech, corporates, insurance, medicines). We should know how to manage and reduce healthcare costs
Audio and text
www.atmasvasth.com/costs01/
#atmasvasth #healthfulageing #healthcare #healthcarecosts #healthinsurance
Diagnosing Diabetes Early - For Ourselves and For Those Around Us
Diabetes screening needs to start early and should be an annual exercise, not just for us but for everyone around us
Audio and text
www.atmasvasth.com/diabetes02/
#atmasvasth #healthfulageing #diabetes #fastingbloodsugar
The Three-Second Choice: Buckle Up or Risk Becoming a Backseat Bullet
Wearing a seatbelt even in the backseat of a car saves lives.
www.atmasvasth.com/roadaccident...
#atmasvasth #healthfulageing #roadaccidents #backseatbullet #seatbelt
Cognition and Dementia Updates
All the latest stuff from 2023 and 2024
Audio and Text
www.atmasvasth.com/cognition05/
#atmasvasth #healthfulageing #atmasvasthbook #cognitivedecline #cognition #dementia
The Healthspan of the Mind - Preventing Cognitive Decline
Audio and Text
www.atmasvasth.com/cognition04/
#atmasvasth #healthfulageing #atmasvasthbook #cognitivedecline #cognition #dementia
Foo-Foo Healthcare: How to Identify Snake-Oil Treatments and Separate Fact from Fiction
Audio and Text
www.atmasvasth.com/foofoo01/
#atmasvasth #healthfulageing #atmasvasthbook #foofoo #snakeoil
Atma - 01 Jul Jun
Food Updates - III - Healthy Nutrition for Longevity: Deconstructing the 2024 ICMR-NIN Dietary Guidelines - Part II
The rest of the guidelines
Longer Article. audio, video
www.atmasvasth.com/food10/
#atmasvasth #healthfulageing #atmasvasthbook #food #NIN #ICMRNIN
Food Updates - II - Healthy Nutrition for Longevity: Deconstructing the 2024 ICMR-NIN Dietary Guidelines - Part I
A study of four guidelines - rest next week
Article. audio, video
www.atmasvasth.com/food09/
#atmasvasth #healthfulageing #atmasvasthbook #food #NIN #ICMRNIN #balanceddiet
Food Updates: From Parle-G to Pringles: Examining the Evidence on UPFs
How strong is the data? Why does the rich minority world dictate what the majority world should eat?
Discussion, audio, video
www.atmasvasth.com/food08/
#atmasvasth #healthfulageing #atmasvasthbook #UPFs #ultraprocessedfoods
Thriving After 55: Staying Healthy and Preventing Major Health Risks - Based on the GBD 2021 Data
What diseases and risk factors kill Indians over 55 and what you can do to mitigate that risk.
Video
www.atmasvasth.com/healthspan04/
#atmasvasth #healthfulageing #atmasvasthbook #GBD #healthspan
Lecture: Atmasvasth - A Guide to a Long Healthspan
A lecture I recently gave to doctors and paramedical people.
Video
www.atmasvasth.com/lecture01
#atmasvasth #healthfulageing #atmasvasthbook #lifespan #healthspan
Longevity is Inevitable: Extended Healthspan is Not and Requires Effort
Audio and text
www.atmasvasth.com/healthspan/
#atmasvasth #healthfulageing #atmasvasthbook #lifespan #longevity #healthspan
Sweat and Science: How Wet-Bulb Temperature Dictates Safe Outdoor Exercise
The higher the wet-bulb temperature, the more we should be careful about being physically active outdoors
Audio and text
www.atmasvasth.com/temperature03/
#atmasvasth #healthfulageing #atmasvasthbook #heat #wetbulbtemperature
"Death as Treatment": A Slippery Slope to Disaster
Once codified, more and more "indications" will be added to support medically assisted dying...even if the person does not want to die.
Audio and text
www.atmasvasth.com/death02/
#atmasvasth #healthfulageing #atmasvasthbook #assisteddying #MAID
Physical Activity Update - II (What, When, How Much)
2023 and early 2024 data on how physical activity makes a difference
Audio and text
www.atmasvasth.com/pa15/
#atmasvasth #healthfulageing #atmasvasthbook #physicalactivity
Physical Activity Update - I (Blood Pressure, Diabetes, Cancers, Falls, Sleep, Dementia)
2023 and early 2024 data on how physical activity makes a difference
Audio and text
www.atmasvasth.com/pa15/
#atmasvasth #healthfulageing #atmasvasthbook #physicalactivity
The Ban on E-Cigarettes in India - Has the Time Come to Reconsider?
....given that nicotine is not carcinogenic per se and data suggests that e-cigarettes help those who want to stop smoking...
Audio and text
www.atmasvasth.com/smoking03/
#atmasvasth #healthfulageing #atmasvasthbook #smoking
Atmasvasth - A Guide to Ageing Healthfully
A 15-Point Guide on The Science and Art of Healthful Ageing
The Kindle Edition is now available worldwide.
The India Kindle Store link
www.amazon.in/dp/B0CW1H364M/
For other stores, just type "Atmasvasth" to get to the Kindle page.
#atmasvasth #kindlebook