Tag Archives: oxidative stress

Setting The Spring Congress Stage: Must-Learn Topics and Featured Experts

Setting The Spring Congress Stage: Must-Learn Topics + Featured Visionaries

In just under a week, from May 3-5, 2024, the highly anticipated 32nd Annual Spring Congress will bring its invigorating energy to the vibrant city of West Palm Beach, FL. With this year’s theme, “The Metabolic Crisis: From Surviving to Thriving in the 21st Century,” the event will address the most pressing healthcare challenges of our time. It will spotlight the critical role of metabolic health and optimization in positive patient outcomes, underscoring its relevance to the current healthcare landscape.

Two days of immersive learning will equip attendees with exclusive, practical, and immediately actionable insights. Led by an impressive lineup of 50 acclaimed speakers delivering 80 practice-revolutionizing sessions, the agenda has been meticulously curated to delve into the intricacies of metabolic dysfunction and its far-reaching implications across various medical disciplines. This year’s educational program spans a wide range of clinically relevant, timely topics shaping the healthcare industry, from breaking scientific discoveries to novel interventions for metabolic regulation.

Continue reading

The Connection Between Aging, Cognitive Performance, and Oxidative Stress

Cognitive performance is a critical capability that allows individuals to function accordingly in their everyday lives; it provides humans with the capacity for sustenance and self-preservation and the free will to engage in activities of their choice. However, many researchers have posed a question regarding the sustainability of the human body’s cognitive performance, particularly because cognition may not be an all-enduring ability and is subject to different levels of degradation.

Several studies have proposed this concept, and research shows that several factors could affect a person’s cognitive ability, along with the discovery that multiple types of cognition correlate to specific functionality in the human body.

After several assessments of this proposed thesis, oxidative stress was considered one of the most significant factors correlated to a decrease in cognitive performance. This type of degradation is associated with the inherent decline of the body – aging.

Continue reading