Ask doctors what vitamin K does, and most will tell you it is involved in the clotting process…period!

Few adults realize how quickly the body oxidizes and excretes vitamin C. Here we introduce a powerful new antioxidant that helps maintain and re-circulate vitamin C in the body, thus augmenting the disease-fighting capabilities of this essential nutrient.

If people live long enough, severe visual impairment is almost inevitable. The leading cause of blindness in people over age 50 is macular degeneration, a condition in which the central portion of the retina (the macula) deteriorates.

In 1980, the Life Extension Foundation published its first health newsletter. Since then, we have introduced dozens of nutrients, hormones, and drugs that are now proven to prevent and treat a wide variety of ailments.

Each winter, tens of millions of Americans are stricken with debilitating and sometimes lethal infectious diseases. Find out how to activate critical immune components to better combat seasonal illnesses before they take hold in the body.

The drastic decline in DHEA that occurs in maturing adults coincides with the onset of a host of age-related diseases. New research shows that DHEA protects against atherosclerosis, improves insulin sensitivity, increases bone mass, and promotes well-being.

Glycation, the linking of proteins and sugars in the body, accelerates aging and may induce the onset of killers such as Alzheimer’s, cancer, and heart disease. Find out how to shield your body against disabling and deadly glycation reactions.

When it comes to achieving optimal results from coenzyme Q10 (CoQ10), how much you absorb is of critical importance. Recently published studies conclusively show that higher CoQ10 blood levels provide far greater benefits.

Breast cancer will kill 40,000 women this year, yet startling research reviewed by the National Cancer Institute reveals that CoQ10 may be an effective adjuvant treatment. Even newer studies document how CoQ10 kills cancer cells without harming healthy cells and how CoQ10 enhances the anti-tumor effects of the breast cancer drug tamoxifen. Human trials are desperately needed to confirm CoQ10’s potential to save thousands from needlessly dying of breast and other cancers.

The FDA recently approved fish oil as a prescription drug. While the FDA’s recognition of fish oil’s lifesaving benefits is commendable, this approval provides a regulatory platform to enable drug companies to earn outlandish profits. In fact, this prescription fish oil drug costs nearly eight times more than what Life Extension members pay for their fish oil concentrate! Learn why this government-sanctioned marketing scheme may cause unwitting, cash-strapped consumers to pay exorbitant prices for prescription fish oil.

Conventional medicine continues to ignore critical cardiac risk factors, thus fueling America's epidemic of deadly vascular diseases. For example, elevated fibrinogen, a protein produced by the liver, is directly linked to increased risk for heart attack, stroke, and even cancer. A new study in the Journal of the American Medical Association validates the warning Life Extension issued 10 years ago about the lethal dangers of excess fibrinogen.

In recent months, headline-hungry media outlets have run alarming front-page stories attacking the efficacy of popular nutritional supplements such as calcium, vitamin D, and glucosamine. A close look at the research fueling these sensational headlines reveals egregious study design flaws and financial conflicts of interest—problems that explain the studies’ negative results that were ignored by the mainstream media.

Caloric restriction not only helps people lose weight and improve lipid levels, but also offers the promise of living a much longer, healthier life. By suppressing appetite and enabling people to consume fewer calories, a remarkable new compound may help aging adults live longer and healthier lives.