Introducing Dr. Mark Hyman to our Friday Pearl readers who might not have yet discovered his brilliant articles, podcasts, and interviews."I don’t just want to live a long life, I want to live a long, healthy, present life. That’s why I’m so passionate about taking proactive measures to support a healthy brain before alarming symptoms like memory-loss occur.

The Aspen Institute is an international, nonprofit think tank founded in 1949 as the Aspen Institute for Humanistic Studies.The 2019 annual Ideas Festival will take place from June 20 through June 29 on the Aspen Colorado campus. The Health segment opens on June 20 this year.

On the first Friday of May 2019, with Mother's Day almost here, we celebrate ever-growing awareness with a mitochondria science refresher. Mitochondria are the organelles in energy-dependent cells, including those in ocular, brain, heart, and muscle tissues.Mitochondrial DNA is only inherited through the maternal line. Any mitochondrial DNA contributed by the father is actively destroyed by programmed cell death after a sperm fuses with an egg. This interesting situation has provided genetics and anthropologists with a useful analytical and measuring tool.