Anti Aging Foods – The Ultimate Anti Aging Medicine

Anti Aging Foods are foods that are perfectly suited to your metabolism and to your specific genetic make-up. One of the most important aspects to anti aging is not finding the latest anti aging vitamin or anti aging supplement, but in finding the perfect fuel or food to make your cells and body run perfectly and disease free for many years to come.

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Anti Aging Foods - The Ultimate Anti Aging Medicine

The Gut Brain Connection in Anti-Aging Medicine – Cassandra Nelson-Dooley, MS

Cassandra Nelson-Dooley, MS speaks on The Gut Brain Connection in Anti-Aging Medicine at the 16th annual A4M conference in Las Vegas, Nevada. More: Clinical cases will be presented with an emphasis on the gut-brain connection underlying migraine headache, depression, fibromyalgia, and fatigue.

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The Gut Brain Connection in Anti-Aging Medicine - Cassandra Nelson-Dooley, MS

Former Seasteading Institute directors launch seasteading venture

Seasteading is poised to move forward in some big ways, including a new venture being launched by former Seasteading Institute staff. Max Marty and Dario Mutabdzija, former directors of business and legal strategy respectively, are starting a seasteading venture named Blueseed. Blueseed will create a visa-free technology incubator for startups and knowledge workers in international waters off the coast of the San Francisco Bay Area. For more information, visit blueseed.co.

Horse Surfing – A Fun Friday Post

Horses think horse surfing is hilarious.

It’s Friday, and if you’ve had a week like I did, you probably need a good laugh. So when I randomly came across this picture, I knew I had to write a post about it. It appears that it’s as simple as it looks – a horse traveling up to 35 miles per hour pulls a surfer through the waves behind him. Just a horse pulling a surfer. Horse surfing.

Not surprisingly, there aren’t any pictures of horse surfing on Flickr. So, I’ll provide you with a link to a site with some really nifty photos about horse surfing in England. Check them out — it’s pretty bizarre. Happy Friday!

The Independent Horse

Photo: katieblench

Taking Interesting Beach Photos

I will be the first to tell you that I am no photography expert – not by far! But, I do absolutely adore beaches, and I always take my camera with me, grains of sand be darned. When you take about 1,000 photos of beaches in one year, you’re bound to get a few that turn out well. I’ve learned a lot about how to frame shots and how to not fall into the trap of “cliche” beach shots, though I still do take plenty of those. But on the other hand, who cares? Cliche shots can be very pretty.

I thought it would be neat to share what I’ve learned from a couple of my own photos and then include a bunch of really fabulous, creative beach photos I’ve found on Flickr. Some people really have a good eye — it’s all about realizing that a beach is more than just sun, sand and water.

First up – My husband and I watched the sun set on Eagle Beach for a good hour, and took about 300 pictures. I took a break for a bit and watched my husband catch the remaining light. I loved this one because it capture him doing one of the things he loves to do most – take pictures.

Taking a Photo of my Husband Taking a Photo

I seriously wish I could remember the name of this beach in New Zealand. It started to hail about five minutes after this shot was taken. I was really struck by the vivid colors (I didn’t touch up this photo at all!) The blue of the ocean bled into the dark gray sand which was framed by the bright green hillsides and the ominous dark storm clouds loomed behind. I learned about perspective when I took this shot.

A beach in New Zealand

Now on to other peoples’ photos. I love this shot of palapas – there’s symmetry, nice color and it’s just a very visually pleasing photo. Not the most unique out there, but just — pretty. Reminds you of what the beach is for: relaxing. Symmetry is relaxing for most people, and that’s the feeling this photo creates.

Palapas

This next shot reminds me of the architecture on a beach — it’s not just all sand dunes. The Huntington Beach pier frames the shot like twenty different picture frames, and I wonder what’s through the peep hole at the end. The ray of light on the left draws your eye up diagonally through the photo.

A nice pier shot

A cute take on a classic – the surfer. It almost looks as though the hand is putting down the sand for the surfer to walk on.

Surfer

I love, love, love beach storms. They just seem so much moodier and interesting than they do over land. Can’t you just sense the lightning in these clouds? The water seems remarkably calm for the storm brewing above it.

A storm approaches

Photos: Jenny Bengen-Albert, footloosiety, bosdos, ~ipoxstudios~, Meta-Man

Siesta Key Beach Named Best Beach in America by Dr. Beach (2011)

Siesta Beach's gorgeous water

Man, I really have to make it over to Siesta Beach in Sarasota, Florida. I’ve been wanting to go ever since I read fellow Uptake blogger Barbara Weibel’s post about it back in late 2008, but I’ve just never made the time. Friends have recently gone and told me how amazing it is; not only is the beach and water itself lovely, but there are apparently lots of things to do around the area for families such as museums and an aquarium, which sets it apart from the Rosemary Beach area, as much as I love it.

So what exactly makes Siesta Beach so lovely? According to Barbara Weibel, it’s the sand; made up of 99% quartz, it reflects most of the sunlight, keeping it cool on the hottest of days. The sand is wonderful for sand castle building as well. And, the beach is shallow, and there are lifeguards around at all times, making it very safe for everyone. Lifeguards are rarely present at the beaches I have visited recently.

The impossibly why sands on Siesta Beach in Sarasota, Florida

However, Dr. Beach pointed out something else about Siesta Beach which makes it highly attractive to me — it’s smokeless! This means no cigarette butts in the sand and no having to look at smokers on the beach — it always ruins the healthy beach vibe for me.

I was also proud to see that San Diego’s Coronado Beach made #2 this year, as it should! Such a gorgeous beach, it’s my favorite on the West Coast. Here are the details on the other beaches that made the list this year.

Putting Siesta Beach at the top of my list for beaches to visit in the very near future. Perhaps I can sneak a visit in this fall? I love the name – it means “nap” in Spanish, which pretty much sums up my favorite beach activity.

Photos: mylerdude, matthewingram

Bradenton Herald Sounds Alarm on Cuts to Beach Water Monitoring

The Bradenton Herald has just published an editorial chastising the state for cuts in beach water quality monitoring. Public health stands to be compromised by the state’s shortsighted decision to slash spending on the testing of water quality at dozens of beaches around Florida…Three of Manatee County’s 10 sampling stations will close–at popular beaches too. [...]

Jellyfish Remain in the Florida Newspaper Headlines

This has been a big year for jellyfish. It seems like every few weeks they are making headlines by “invading”some Florida beach. Well, now they’re back. In southeast Florida. Apparently they’ve heard that the weather is nice in Fort Lauderdale and Boca Raton. Moon jellies (Aurelia aurita) are hitting the beaches by the thousands. Though [...]

Henderson Park Inn: The Ultimate Beach Bed & Breakfast

This is a guest post written by Susan Jarvis Moody. Henderson Park Inn Helps Turtles Henderson Park Inn, an exclusive, adults only hotel and restaurant located on the Gulf of Mexico will soon allow 100 tiny turtles to take up temporary residence as they make their way to the water. One third of the word’s [...]

Beneath the waves

A beautiful nudibranch or "sea-slug"

A sand mason worm sits inside its grainy shelter

Brittlestars can be found aplenty on the shores



Sunday 14th August comments: Continuing the theme of having a look at the sometimes overlooked aspects of the Farnes, today’s blog looks at the islands’ non mammalian sea and shorelife.

The seas around the Farne Islands are incredibly rich in nutrients, which allow the water to support a vast number and diversity of animals (and plants!) The most obvious and numerous of these is the sand-eel, the plankton-eating fish which supports an entire population of breeding seabirds and seals, but there are many more critters to be found in Farnes waters. In the summer months, huge swarms of common or “moon” jellyfish come to the warming seas, accompanied by the purple Cyanea lamarkii and red lion’s mane jellyfish, the only stinging locally British jelly.

Amongst the rocks and boulders of the shoreline, swimming, shore and edible crabs await their next meals alongside the plentiful lobster and smaller squat lobsters. There are however many more weird, and wonderful small creatures here. Tiny but beautiful nudibranchs or sea-slugs (not a very attractive name for something so nice!) can be found amongst the rocks, sand mason worms build peculiar tubular homes from the ground around them and young fish hide in crevices from any would-be predators.

The Farnes wardens, along with a team from Natural England, perform surveys on the islands’ rocky shores to keep an eye on the sea’s general state. Much like the butterflies and moths, as well as being incredibly interesting to look at, the small shoreline creatures with their fast reproduction and short lifespans provide a very up-to-date view on the water’s health. A change in the populations of these shoreline beasts could be a warning of changes to come in the much longer-lived breeding seabirds, allowing the wardens to take action on a problem before it is too late.