Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S.
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 Although a generation of baby boomers probably first heard the name of this herb through the immortal Simon and Garfunkel song, it's actually been around since the days of the ancient Greeks and Romans, who valued it as an aphrodisiac. In fact, Euell Gibbons, in Stalking the Healthful Herbs, said, "According to ancient tradition, if a girl wears a corsage of wild thyme flowers, it means that she is looking for a sweetheart; and according to another tradition, if a bashful boy drinks enough wild thyme tea, it will give him courage to take her up on it! |
Bill Sardi
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 If effective cancer prevention is practiced, the growing number of baby boomers who face an increased risk for cancer as they pass the age of 50, may be able to avoid or delay the onset of cancer. As previously explained in this book, once cancer is detected it is usually too large (more than a billion cells) or has spread (metastasized) to the point where any treatment would be ineffective. As they say, an ounce of prevention is better than a pound of cure. |
| On the one hand, the baby boomers are entering their most cancer-prone years with a tremendous rise in the number of cancer cases being predicted. It is estimated that as many as one in three Americans will develop cancer in their lifetime. Cancer is just now passing heart disease as the number one cause of death in the United States.
On the other hand, remarkable and unexpected developments now make it possible to place the greatest cancer-blocking molecules directly into the hands of patients so that cancer prevention can be effectively practiced for the very first time. |
Andreas Moritz
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 Not eating enough fruit and vegetables, smoking and not exercising
It was a wakeup call for baby boomers when newscasters reported in 2004 that former President Bill Clinton had to undergo emergency heart surgery. Unfortunately, the message conveyed to the world wasn't really focused on improving heart health but on taking the right drugs. It was by mere coincidence that just one week before President Clinton was admitted to the hospital, the prestigious medical journal The Lancet sounded a wakeup call with a different meaning. |
Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S.
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 And baby boomers, like my hiking buddy, are not only living longer, they're not going to take a life of inactivity sitting down (pun intended).
So how do we help alleviate the discomfort that comes with our weekend warrior lives and our rapidly degenerating joints?
Enter MSM.
Natural Prescription for Pain and Inflammation
MSM: Start with 1,000 mg per day and gradually work up to 4,000 mg per day. Because MSM helps to detox the body of heavy metals, watch for signs of rash, sweating, or headaches. (Nutritionist Suzanne Copp, M.S., frequently sees acne breakouts on the back, so be prepared! |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 As the market for prescription drugs grows to include more and more children, plus aging baby boomers, the number of prescriptions per capita will likely increase. Even a small percentage of those drugs flushed into waterways poses a serious risk.
The threat posed by chemicals in personal care products
Prescription medications are not the only cause for concern. Consider parabens used in soaps, shampoos, moisturizers, and other personal care products. The EPA has reported that parabens -- methyl, propyl, butyl, and ethyl (alkyl-p-hydroxybenzoates) -- are endocrine disruptors. |
Michael J. Panzner
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 Americans have been growing old quickly, and 78 million baby boomers will soon draw upon the wealth of younger Americans. People are living longer, too; the average life expectancy increased from 75.4 years in 1990 to an all-time high of 77.6 in 2005—two years in less than a generation. By 2030, twice as many people will be 65 or older as there are now. And by 2040, one out of every four Americans will be in that age bracket.
That means only one thing: barring any dramatic changes in benefits, the already large cost of the social safety net will expand rapidly. |
Shannon Brownlee
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 As the baby boomers age, the AMA argues, and doctors retire, we will need to train many more physicians in the coming years. There's considerable disagreement over this, but the most worrisome aspect of the AMA's argument is that those new doctors should be specialists. Why? Because specialists are the doctors that many Americans want to see.
Maybe that's so, but health care economists aren't sure that we should assume the financial burden of those who want to go to specialists. |
Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S.
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| Train Your Body, Save Your Brain
Most baby boomers I know worry about losing their minds. Not literally, of course. But all too many of us have had the heartbreaking experience of caring for aging parents who no longer recognize them, no longer know where or who they are, and suffer from either vascular dementia or full-blown Alzheimer's disease. It's a fate many of my boomer friends fear more than almost any other—the gradual and inexorable loss of the ability to think, feel, and act as the person they've always been. |
Bottom Line Health
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| Facial acupuncture is gaining popularity, especially among baby boomers who want to diminish signs of aging. There are other forces driving demand, too, including consumers who are tired or wary of repeated Botox injections. So, business-savvy acupuncturists are marketing their alternative approach as a holistic solution.
THE PROCEDURE
In facial acupuncture, the practitioner inserts small needles into "pressure points" in the face. According to supporters, this boosts blood flow to the area, producing tighter muscles and a more youthful appearance. |
Paula Begoun and Bryan Barron
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 As a "natural" skin-care ingredient it is primarily being promoted as having been clinically proven to reduce the signs of aging, improve sun damage, reduce surfaced capillaries, and offer many other skin benefits of particular inreresr to aging baby boomers. There is a good deal of research on kinetin when it comes to plants or in test tubes (in vitro), with cells, or even with flies, but there is no published research on kinetin's topical effect on either animal or human skin (Source: Dermatologic Clinics, October 2000, pages 609-615). |
Peter J. Whitehouse and Daniel George
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 Newspapers and magazines would have us believe that Alzheimer's is spreading throughout human populations, and especially baby boomers, like an epidemic and claiming millions more victims.
However, what you aren't told is that we don't even know how to diagnose Alzheimer's disease, let alone tabulate the numbers of disease victims. Because there is no single biological profile for AD, every clinical diagnosis is considered "probable"—and, frankly speaking, not even postmortem examination can differentiate a so-called AD victim from those who have aged normally. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 What's happening is that the baby boomers are putting their parents into nursing homes. They're visiting their parents who, in their early 70s, have senile dementia, Alzheimer's and can't feed themselves. They're being told, "Well, I guess it's just genetic." But yet their grandparents didn't experience these illnesses. We have a generation in this Depression generation, and it's going to affect the baby boomers at an unprecedented level of illness. By the sixth decade of life in America, in the 60s, the average American has 10 different disease symptoms. Double-digit pathologies. |
| They use a lot of supplements, but they still feel, "We're the country that liberated the world; we have the greatest system." baby boomers are different. What's happening is that the baby boomers are putting their parents into nursing homes. They're visiting their parents who, in their early 70s, have senile dementia, Alzheimer's and can't feed themselves. They're being told, "Well, I guess it's just genetic." But yet their grandparents didn't experience these illnesses. |
John J. Ratey, MD
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 THE LIFE LIST
Much of the public discourse on aging focuses on baby boomers becoming senior citizens and the belief that their vast numbers will take an unprecedented toll on the health care system, in the form of dementia and other costly health problems. But I don't believe we're stuck with this picture of doom and gloom. Despite my generation's familiarity with fast food and pay per view, we also came of age with Kenneth Cooper's revolutionary concept of aerobics. |
Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S.
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| It's a major concern of many people in this country, particularly baby boomers or those of us who have had to care for aging parents with some form of dementia. It's not fun—not for them, not for us, and it's a fate every one of us would do anything to avoid. I can't promise you that the supplements in this combo cure will prevent Alzheimer's. But I can promise you that every one of them—separately or in combination—has been shown to produce some improvements in mild cognitive impairment and/or in full-blown Alzheimer's. |
Michael T. Murray and Michael R. Lyon
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 Without question, American baby boomers and the generations that have followed have been led to the trough of obesity and told to indulge with pleasure by the food industry as well as the policies of the U.S. government. Food companies and the fast-food industry have used marketing as well as the science of food technology to trigger wanton gluttony in a way that is eerily similar to the methods the tobacco companies employed to develop more addictive cigarettes. |
Peter J. Whitehouse and Daniel George
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| Prevention must become a task in all our lives and a priority for our lawmakers. baby boomers will not go gently into their elder years and retirement. In fact, we can reinvent both aging and retirement. After all, this was the generation whose activism and energy fed the idealism of the 1960s. If we all take the actions necessary for changing our own lives and advocate for greater societal changes, we can begin to construct a new framework for aging in our culture.
"let thy food be thy medicine": can better nutrition keep us vital? |
Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S.
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| As of 2006, the youngest members of the group of more than seventy-eight million people in the United States known as baby boomers will have passed their fortieth birthday. The older members of the group, which include George W. Bush and Bill Clinton (and me), turned sixty in this same year.
About thirty million of us will suffer some form of dementia, according to New York Times columnist David Brooks. |
J. Douglas Bremner
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 Next, the words Celebrex and Ask your doctor appeared on the screen, and with them the promise of the happiness and vitality that I, along with millions of baby boomers, fantasize about. The ad conjured up a lovely picture. Unfortunately, it turned out that the side effects of Celebrex (celecoxib) and those of similar drugs?Vioxx (rofecoxib) and Bextra (valdecoxib)—called COX-2 inhibitors left many osteoarthritis sufferers who took them skating on thin ice. |
Elaine Magee
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 Most of the health benefits derived from food synergy are long-term, and they're powerful, helping to prevent major chronic diseases like cancer, heart disease, and stroke. With baby boomers hitting their fifties (I'm a member of this distinguished group), this new way of looking at things through the lens of food synergy seems perfectly timed.
Of course, while the need to know more is strong and growing stronger, it's important to recognize that there's still a great deal to learn. |
| WHY MILK MATTERS
It seems that my generation, the baby boomers, grew up without the beverage monopoly we call the soda business in full force like it is today. As kids, many of us drank milk at every meal. Frankly, I don't even remember having soda every day. I think it was reserved for parties or the occasional trip to the golden arches or downtown diner.
What's been happening to dairy consumption lately? While whole milk and butter consumption have gone down, cheese and premium ice cream are rising. Are we trading one high-fat dairy food for another? |
Peter J. Whitehouse and Daniel George
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| These benefits are positive in the face of the fact that there is little chance of baby boomers retiring as their parents did. Working into old age may now be a financial necessity or a personal choice for our generation. Whatever the case may be, work has the potential to be protective for individuals and good for society as a whole. Maintaining the presence of elders in the workplace can be a tremendous boon to businesses and organizations. Elders are known for their work ethic and integrity, and aging persons possess wisdom and an ability to see the big picture. |
| Although this spark has dimmed since the 1960s as we have raised families and embarked on careers, baby boomers are sleeping giants whose reemergence as idealists in their retirement years can make a difference at all levels of our society. Issues of equity, equality, and environment will continue to be paramount to bettering mankind. There may always be senseless wars to oppose, politicians to keep in check, an environment to protect, and important causes to fight for. |
Melody Petersen
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 In 2002 and 2003 prescription spending rose faster for children than for seniors, baby boomers, or any other group.
But so far scientists know little about the long-term effects of using powerful adult drugs in children, making the booming pediatric market a grand American experiment. The drugs have already harmed thousands of children. Federal regulators received more than seven thousand reports of drugs harming infants and toddlers under age two between 1997 and 2000, according to a university study. More than 750 of those children died. |
Gary Null and Amy McDonald
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 A Protocol to Lower Cholesterol
Stressed-out baby boomers worry about (among other things!) their cholesterol level. And well they might, since stress tends to elevate cholesterol. Having elevated blood sugar can also contribute to high cholesterol. Generally, most people don't have their cholesterol levels checked. They should. This is done as part of a blood lipid profile.
You cannot eliminate cholesterol from the diet, and, indeed, you should not do so, because, as mentioned previously, cholesterol is important. But it must be kept in check. |
Peter J. Whitehouse and Daniel George
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| U.S.
?26.8 percent of the nation's population are baby boomers.
?51 percent of boomers are women.
?$45,654 is the average annual spending by boomer households.
?12.6 percent of boomers have never married.
?88.8 percent of boomers completed high school.
?28.5 percent of boomers have a bachelor's degree or higher.
?Nine states (California, Florida, Illinois, Michigan, New Jersey, Ne York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Texas) are where more than half of all boomers live. |
Paula Begoun
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 Aging baby boomers (I'm in this category, too) need to believe that the products they are buying will protect their hair, prevent fading, slow grow-out, and repair the damage of the chemical assaults.
The explosion of styling products filling shelf space in salons and drugstores is directly related to the diverse range of hairstyles adorning movie stars and models month after month in fashion and celebrity magazines. |
Carol Simontacchi
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 At the same time that the need for pain relief is growing, our country is experiencing a trend toward self-care, especially among the baby boomers. Sales of dietary supplements marketed to support joint health were $1,025 billion in 2001, and joint health is one of the fastest growing condition categories in the health foods industry. Over $566 million were spent on over-the-counter pharmaceutical joint health products in
Which Disorders Have Been Linked to Inflammation?
When most of us think of inflammation, we think of arthritis and, perhaps, the aches and pains that come with injury. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 The entitlements will still come due:
"There are 77 million baby boomers now ranging from age 41 to age 59. All are hoping to collect tens of thousands of dollars in pension and healthcare benefits from the next generation. These claimants aren’t going away. In three years, the oldest boomers will be eligible for early Social Security benefits. In six years, the boomer vanguard will start collecting Medicare. Our nation has done nothing to prepare for this onslaught of obligation. |
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