Original article from San Francisco Standard Can’t spend $1 million a year on longevity but still want to live forever? Enter the "affordable" on-demand life-extension consultant. Late last winter, an assortment of bright orange trading cards, each featuring a realistic sketch of a founder or venture[...]
Original article from cnbc.com Working for the rest of your life may sound unappealing but many 100-year-olds around the globe say doing what they love and not retiring is what keeps them feeling youthful and fulfilled. In a popular book about longevity, “Ikigai: The Japanese Secret[...]
She took up running after her 100th birthday at the encouragement of her children, and went on to set two world records in the 100-meter dash. Original article from The New York Times Julia Hawkins, who took up running after her 100th birthday and went on[...]
Original article from the Brighter Side. Researchers at the Mayo Clinic have discovered that senolytic drugs can enhance the production of a crucial protein, potentially shielding the elderly from the effects of aging and various illnesses. Their findings, featured in eBioMedicine, demonstrate this through experiments[...]
Original article from HuffPost According to scientific research, if you make healthy eating a regular, normal thing, it can increase how long you live up to a full decade — that’s major. Considering that humans are creatures who favor routine, there’s a good chance that[...]
Original article from The National Institute of Aging An innovative form of tai chi that combines mental puzzles and challenges with the traditional physical movements improved cognition in older adults with mild cognitive impairment. The results of the NIA funded study were published in Annals of[...]
Original article from The New York Times People who think positively about getting older often live longer, healthier lives. Here is how to reconsider your perspective. At a pool party this summer, Johnnie Cooper climbed onto the diving board, executed a perfect dive and then joined[...]
Article courtesy of the New York Times The human brain, more than any other attribute, sets our species apart. Over the past 7 million years or so, it has grown in size and complexity, enabling us to use language, make plans for the future and coordinate[...]
This story appeared originally on NPR A key protein that helps assemble the brain early in life also appears to protect the organ from Alzheimer’s and other diseases of aging. A trio of studies published in the past year all suggest that the protein Reelin[...]
Original article from The Guardian Louisiana’s Elizabeth Francis, ‘America’s grandmother’, was born before women could vote and has seen two world wars The oldest person in the US offers two bits of advice when asked for the keys to her longevity: “If the good Lord gave[...]
Original article published in NIH National Library of Medicine (Structured Abstract) INTRODUCTION For much of modern human history, we were only one of several different groups of hominins that existed. Studies of ancient and modern DNA have shown that admixture occurred multiple times among different hominin[...]
Original article seen in Nice News Articles featuring advice from centenarians seem to abound these days, with people age 100 or older graciously offering tips for a long and happy life. Indeed, there are more men and women in the demographic alive today than there[...]
Original article published in Alzheimers.gov Among sets of twins in which one has dementia, the other may have an increased risk of a shortened lifespan, even if that person does not have the disease, according to an NIA-funded study. The findings, published in Alzheimer’s & Dementia, suggest[...]
Original article seen in The New Yorker A friend of mine knew a wealthy man who had decided to live forever. That made him hard to be around, my friend told me, in an e-mail, because he was “always dropping to the floor to do[...]
Article from Maria Shriver Sunday Prayer When I was younger, I believed that happiness happened to you. But no matter what I did, I never experienced any sort of purpose or joy. That's because I was thinking about happiness all wrong. After ten years of studying the science[...]
Original articles from Technology Networks Regular exercise and a healthy diet may be enough to offset the effects of life-shortening genes, according to new research published in BMJ Evidence Based Medicine. An unhealthy lifestyle, on the other hand, could result in a 78% higher risk[...]
Original article seen in LA Times Women have actually won the longevity lottery. We live, on average in the United States, six years longer than men. So that’s incredibly positive. But there is a dark side to this. And that is: We women, on average,[...]
Original article from Prevention Doctors say this is a major indicator that our genes are not our destiny. We may not all live to 100, but we can still work towards a long and fruitful life. For those with genetic risks of dying early, adopting[...]
Original Mind Body Green article available HERE. By 2050, researchers expect 115 million people will be living with dementia around the world. In the U.S., the CDC expects to see the sharpest increases in cases among Black and Latino Americans. And while dementia risk increases[...]
Article courtesy of Ann Gibbons for Science Here’s another blow to the popular image of Neanderthals as brutish meat eaters: A new study of bacteria collected from Neanderthal teeth shows that our close cousins ate so many roots, nuts, or other starchy foods that they[...]
Original article from Technology Networks A new study from the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience (IoPPN) at King’s College London has established that Intermittent Fasting (IF) is an effective means of improving long term memory retention and generating new adult hippocampal neurons in mice, in[...]
Article courtesy of Emeran Mayer, MD Two recent articles in the New York Times addressed the topic of Alzheimer’s disease (AD), one based on a recent scientific publication that showed resilience and resistance to develop cognitive decline in centenarians, the other one addressing the recent controversial[...]
Article by Dr. P.K. Gupta The director of the George Washington University College of Medicine argues that the brain of an elderly person is much more plastic than is commonly believed. At this age, the interaction of the right and left hemispheres of the brain becomes[...]
Article from MedPageToday Dementia incidence tripled in lonely older adults who otherwise would be expected to have relatively low risk based on age and genes, researchers found. Lonely older people under age 80 without an APOE4 allele had a threefold greater risk of dementia (adjusted HR[...]
Article courtesy of MedPageToday Diets high in inflammatory foods were linked with global markers of brain aging and cerebral small vessel disease on MRI, a cross-sectional study showed. Compared with anti-inflammatory diets, those considered pro-inflammatory on the Dietary Inflammatory Index (DII) were associated with smaller total[...]