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Hydration can significantly impact your physical health, study finds
You may know that being adequately hydrated is important for day-to-day bodily functions such as regulating temperature and maintaining skin health.
The start-ups seeking a cure for old age
Tech billionaires are funding research to help us live longer and healthier lives, but experts warn of an ethical minefield ahead.
Can ageing really be ‘treated’ or ‘cured’? An evolutionary biologist explains
As time passes, our fertility declines and our bodies start to fail. These natural changes are what we call ageing.
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Anti-aging molecule? Potential treatment to revive deteriorating muscles
Stanford Medicine scientists have discovered that a molecule known for enhancing strength in aging or injured lab mice achieves this by reconnecting nerves and muscle fibers.
Arthritis drug mimics "young blood" transfusions to reverse aging in mice
In what sounds like dystopian sci-fi, researchers have recently shown that infusions of youthful blood can improve the health of older people.
T cells can now be reprogrammed to slow down and reverse aging
Stanford Medicine scientists have discovered that a molecule known for enhancing strength in aging or injured lab mice achieves this by reconnecting nerves and muscle fibers.
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Researchers here demonstrate an approach to inhibiting miR-141-3p that leads to improved health in old mice following twelve weeks of treatment.
The brain is one of the most important organs of your body and keep it healthy is not only necessary for having a good memory and mood.
To the degree that regular exercise and maintenance physical fitness preserve health in later life, it must be slowing the fundamental mechanisms of aging.
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Put down the apple. It’s the tree that may help keep the doctor away.
There are many well-known individuals who advocate for anti-aging and a healthy lifestyle.
Aging is seen as a period of loss, and there are unhelpful myths about older adults.
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Scientists Dramatically Extend Cell Lifespan in Anti-Aging Breakthrough
You may know ozone as the gas that surrounds the Earth’s stratosphere to protect us from the sun’s ultraviolet light.
To the degree that regular exercise and maintenance physical fitness preserve health in later life, it must be slowing the fundamental mechanisms of aging.
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Pills that can help a person reverse the effects of aging could be on the market in the next five years, according to an expert.
Low environmental temperature has been shown to modestly extend life, and there are a number of examples of similar species in which those dwelling in a colder environment exhibit a longer life span.
Senescent cells accumulate with age, largely due to cells reaching the Hayflick limit, but a range of cell stresses can also induce senescence.
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Dr. Gladys McGarey, 102, says she’s always had a purpose and something to live for. “You don’t find that if you’re not looking for it,” she says.
If you’re looking to live for many years after retirement, however, scientists recommend looking for a more frigid area up north.
Do you want to live a longer life in good health? Simple practices can make some difference, such as exercise or calorie restriction.
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Anti-aging drugs are being trialed in companion dogs—but the goal is to find ways to have people, as well as beloved pets, live longer, healthier lives.
Do you want to live a longer life in good health? Simple practices can make some difference, such as exercise or calorie restriction.
Alpha-ketoglutarate is used for kidney disease, intestinal and stomach disorders, and many other conditions but there is no good scientific evidence to support most of these uses.
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In the early 1980's, scientists in China began to study the medical benefits claimed for qigong. Since then, research on hundreds of medical applications of qigong have been reported in the Chinese literature.
Do you want to live a longer life in good health? Simple practices can make some difference, such as exercise or calorie restriction.
In his book "The Singularity Is Near", futurist and inventor Ray Kurzweil argues that we are rapidly approaching a point in time known as the singularity.
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“Unexpected” – Scientists Discover an Anti-Aging Mechanism
The mechanism extends the life of the immune system.
How scientists want to make you young again
Research labs are pursuing technology to “reprogram” aging bodies back to youth.
Is an Anti-Aging Pill on the Horizon?
A group of researchers believe they’re getting closer, however, thanks to a compound called nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide, or NAD+ for short.
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As billionaires race to fund anti-agingprojects, a much-discussed trial goes overlooked
Beating back the diseases of aging has become something of a pet project for many of Silicon Valley’s tech titans.
The ‘Benjamin Button’ effect: Scientists can reverse aging in mice. The goal is to do the same for humans
In molecular biologist David Sinclair’s lab at Harvard Medical School, old mice are growing young again.
Cellular rejuvenation therapy safely reverses signs of aging in mice
Researchers treated mice with anti-aging regimen beginning in middle age and found no increase in cancer or other health problems later on.
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Get Stronger for a Longer, Healthier Life
It turns out that maintaining muscle mass is just as important for longevity and long-term health?
Experts Worried Elderly Billionaires Will Become Immortal, Compounding Wealth Forever
"The longer you're around, the more your wealth compounds."
A View of Cellular Senescence in Cancer
Cellular senescence is a double-edged sword in the matter of cancer.
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Maintaining a regular workout routine can help you look and feel great—but did you know that exercise also helps maintain your muscles and bones?
Two research teams reverse signs of aging in mice
But doubts remain about whether cell reprogramming technique could one day help humans.
Old, Nonagenarians, and Centenarians in Cilento, Italy and the Association of Lifespan with the Level of Some Physicochemical Elements in Tap Drinking Water
Longevity, as a complex life-history trait, shares an ontogenetic relationship with other quantitative traits, such as epigenetic and environmental factors.
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Ultrasound therapy could delay, stop, or even reverse the aging process, a new study reveals.
It’s not just what you eat, but the time of day you eat it
The timing of your meals can have striking effects on your weight, appetite and chronic disease risk
World's oldest person, Maria Branyas Morera, advises staying away from 'toxic people'
Maria Branyas Morera says that at her age, a new year is a "gift, a humble celebration, a new adventure, a beautiful journey, a moment of happiness".
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Aging has been long believed to occur through accumulated mutations to DNA, which gradually interfere with the normal functioning of cells, tissues, and organs.
Male menopause” is the more common term for andropause. It describes age-related changes in male hormone levels.
The drug rapamycin is the only pharmacological agent thus far shown to reproducibly extend lifespan and delay a subset of age-associated pathologies in multiple strains of mice.
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In a preprint paper, the researchers have shown that low-frequency ultrasound treatment decreases senescence and improves the physical performance of aged mice
The accumulation of senescent cells with age is an important contributing cause of age-related disease and eventual mortality.
Many more life span studies are carried out in mice rather than rats, so it is not too surprising to see people pushing the record for longest lived rat.
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Researchers and clinicians need to develop measurements that capture the nuances of the many senior successes found in centenarians and supercentenarians.
Do you want to live a longer life in good health? Simple practices can make some difference, such as exercise or calorie restriction.
Animal studies show that long term inadequate hydration shortens life span, causing changes in cell behavior similar to that of aging.
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The Yamanaka factors (Oct3/4, Sox2, Klf4, c-Myc) are a group of protein transcription factors that play a vital role in the creation of induced pluripotent stem cells
The findings, published Feb. 9 in the journal Population Studies, counter prevailing wisdom that excess weight boosts mortality risk only in extreme cases.
It remains the case that all too little in medical science is demonstrated to be better than exercise for improved long-term health.
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The Yamanaka factors (Oct3/4, Sox2, Klf4, c-Myc) are a group of protein transcription factors that play a vital role in the creation of induced pluripotent stem cells.
Greater Fitness in Humans Implies a Younger Epigenome and Transcriptome
Exercise improves health and life expectancy in humans, so it shouldn't be all that surprising to find studies in which assessments of the epigenome and transcriptome show signs of greater youth
The present state of parabiosis studies demonstrates that diluting blood in old animals produces improved health
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Here I'll note an interesting effort to produce a taxonomy of companies and approaches to treatment in the longevity industry.
These two parts of Boston have a 23 year difference in life expectancy
In a section of Boston's Back Bay neighborhood, residents have a life expectancy of nearly 92.
Calorie restriction regime enhances physical performance of trained athletes
Caloric restriction induces mitochondrial biogenesis and improves physical fitness in rodents.
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The primary challenge in understanding how calorie restriction slows aging and extends life is that it changes near everything in the operation of cellular metabolism.
Less Sleep and a Longer Life, a Desirable Mutation
A person who sleeps six hours rather than eight hours every day, give or take, is effectively gaining a bonus 12.5% additional time spent alive and active.
From Energy Drinks to Extending Life? Supplement Slows Aging in Mice and Monkeys
Taurine helped stave off death in laboratory animals, but researchers cautioned that the supplement is not a magic elixir.