Dementia Rates Set to Double Along with the Importance of Prevention Strategies by 2060
Around 1 million adults in the US are projected to develop dementia each year by 2060, compared with around…
Tag: Aging
Scientist Exposes ‘Blue Zones’ to be Myth Based on Pension Fraud, Not Diet and Lifestyle
In what is likely to be seen as the health and fitness equivalent of something like the Watergate or…
Minimize Sugar, Maximize Nutrients to Lower Biological Age, New Study Shows
A new study showed that biological markers of age known as epigenetics can testify to a younger or older…
NR and NMN Are Unproven at the Doses Being Sold–Phytonutrients May Prevent Aging Even Better
The supplement industry is making a killing off of two anti-aging compounds called nicotinamide riboside (NR) and nicotinamide mononucleotide…
Vitamin D Supplementation Associated with 2.6 Year Extension of Life
As much as 92% of Americans may be losing 2.6 good years of lifespan, due to about that percentage…
Cellular Rejuvenation Therapy Safely Reverses Signs of Aging in Mice
Out in La Jolla, California, a top-ranked research institute has rewound time in mice, resetting their cells to youthful…
8 Weeks of Lifestyle Changes Reduced Biological Age by 3 Years In Groundbreaking Proof-of-Concept
Story at a glance… 6 rather simple diet and lifestyle changes reduced biological age by 3.2 years over 2…
Brain Speed Doesn’t Begin to Decline Until Age 60
Mental processing speed does not start to decline until age 60, according to analysis of over a million participants…
Grape Seed Extract Is a Potent Natural Defense Against a Hallmark of Aging By Killing Senescent Cells
Story at a glance… Grape seed extract kills senescent cells, a major driver of aging and its diseases. Mice…
New Biomarker Discovered to Verify the Efficacy of Senolytics—Drugs that Clear Senescent Cells
A biomarker has been discovered for a class of drugs known as “senolytics,” which kill senescent cells. These are…
The MEND Protocol and the End of Alzheimer’s?
Clinical trials of a new precision, or functional medicine approach to targeting, and reversing cognitive decline from Alzheimer’s Disease…
Transplanting Microbes from a Young Mouse into an Old One Reverses Age-Related Cognitive Decline
Story at a glance… When receiving a sample of a young mouse’s gut microbiome, age-related cognitive decline was reversed…
The Medical Wonders of Caloric Restriction: Part 2
Taken from an earlier story from World at Large… In 2007, researchers at the Duke University School of Medicine…
The Medical Wonders of Caloric Restriction: Part 1
In 2007, researchers at the Duke University School of Medicine studying caloric restriction in humans set out on Phase…
Chronic Inflammation Lowers NAD+ Linking Two Critical Aging Pathways Together
A breakthrough in the study of aging occurred within the labs of Dr. Eric Verdin at the Buck Institute…
Blind Mice Cured of Glaucoma and Damaged Eyes When Epigenetic Changes were Programmed Away
Blind mice had their eyesight restored by the activation of proteins which rolled back a sort of genetic scarring…
Established Consensus on “Eat Less Live Longer” Challenged with New Paper
As research on extending lifespan and healthspan has progressed over the last two decades, an adage of “eat less,…
Rare Killer Mutations Could be Taking Months off Our Lives
Ultra-rare genetic mutations passed on from mother and father to their offspring have been found to possibly take months…
Irreversible No-Longer – Blind Mice See Again Thanks To New and Better Method for Synthesizing Lost Cells
Age-related macular degeneration (MD) is a variety of ocular disease that affects so many millions of people that it’s…
In 2013 Researchers Created Mutant Worms that Live 500% Longer – Now They Know How,
PICTURED: C. elegans under a microscope. Photo credit: Zeiss Microscopy. CC 2.0 Back in 2013, researchers at the Buck…