Aging may be unavoidable, but it doesn’t need to happen quickly. There are various lifestyle habits that can slow or even reverse its process: getting enough restful sleep, eating a nutritious diet and engaging in regular physical activity such as regular exercises can all slow or even reverse its progression and reduce mortality risk rates.
WellMedica
WellMedica is an internationally acclaimed Aesthetic Treatment and Anti-Aging center dedicated to advancing and standardizing aesthetic medicine. Their team is focused on restoring beauty and confidence with natural-looking results. WellMedica has become known for treating Washington DC and Northern Virginia political elite. Patients appreciate WellMedica’s kindness, professionalism and artistic abilities to restore youthful beauty. PRP and the vConfidence procedure from Viveve Geneveve are among the many advanced technologies that they utilize. Furthermore, sexual wellness treatments to address issues like decreased libido and vaginal dryness are provided here as well as sexual wellbeing treatments that restore inner health as much as physical rejuvenation is prioritized.
Amber
Amber has long captivated both jewelry makers and scientists for over 40,000 years, delighting jewelry artisans while opening up a window into history through its fossil inclusions and providing insight into past organisms trapped within its time capsule. Made of fossilized tree resin that preserved prehistoric insects and plants, amber today is highly prized gem across many cultures worldwide for its fossil inclusions – valued for their beauty as a gemstone as well as providing scientists with access to this time capsule from which to study micro details trapped inside it.
Amber can be divided into different varieties based on its color and transparency, including transparent, cloudy, fatty, bone (or osseous), and foamy varieties. Amber’s hue can be traced back to both its source tree as well as environmental conditions at the time of its secretion and burial; with Baltic amber showing particularly vibrant hues ranging from yellow through orange and red hues.
An amber-hued resin blob emerges when covered by sediments of wet clay and sand in lagoons and river deltas, possibly due to the presence of terpenes – organic compounds linked as resin hardens – preserving it from decay. Furthermore, carbonate layers in the ocean may have helped cover its remains as well.
Amber differs from traditional fossils in that it doesn’t contain organic material that decomposes over time into mineral forms; rather, its resin undergoes chemical change into polymers that often contains air pockets for an airy look.
Other variations of amber colorations include flame amber, which features opaque concentrations that resemble fiery skies; nebular and woolly amber have opaque sections arranged in strips resembling clouds or woolly fleece; while cabbage-leaf amber has pale yellow streaks over a darker yellow background to simulate cabbage leaf veins.
Some amber is so well-preserved that microbes and even entire dinosaurs have been extracted from it, leading to popular belief in the book and movie Jurassic Park that mosquitoes in amber could lead to the cloning of actual dinosaurs. Unfortunately, extracting DNA from insects trapped within amber requires much more sophisticated technology than is currently available – yet still manages to offer insights into prehistoric life forms! To be curious yourself, simply rubbing amber will cause static electricity which attracts bits of paper or lint.
Veritasium
Derek Muller, creator of the popular YouTube science channel Veritasium (named after Latin “veritas,” meaning truth and the suffix -ium used for many elements on the periodic table), is fascinated by everything around him. His videos–usually lasting 20 minutes–teach viewers about topics ranging from how antivenom is made to concrete being laid. Although some may find his approach controversial or challenging to comprehend, Derek manages it with scientific precision while using minimal language in these discussions.
Muller has enjoyed parallel popularity to that of YouTube, now the world’s premier streaming platform in terms of both content and audience. Additionally, he hosted a documentary series and contributed to Netflix’s Bill Nye Saves the World show; later being honored with a Streamy Award win in Science or Education.
His approach is to debunk commonly held misconceptions about nature’s laws and counter them with video demonstrations of their workings. Many of his videos have gone viral; one on the physics of a falling slinky received over 1 Million views; it shows that when released vertically it dangles until an upward compression wave arrives and causes it to descend vertically again.
How One Company Secretly Poisoned the Planet was another highly watched video released by Veritasium that garnered more viewer watch hours on its first day than any other Veritasium release. It revealed the dangers posed by perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFASs), ubiquitous chemicals which have infiltrated every person, animal and ecosystem on Earth.
The video’s message is clear: new generations must understand the risks posed by chemicals such as PFASs and push for reform in their use. Many have applauded it, including former head of the Environmental Protection Agency; however, critics have challenged its accuracy; in particular some statistics presented have been challenged by researchers. Still, it remains a valuable resource for learning about PFASs as well as raising questions about corporate greed and government incompetence in our world today.
