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By Janet Lee – Washington Post Doing puzzles, playing memory-boosting games, taking classes and reading are activities that we often turn to for help keeping our brains sharp. But research is showing that what you eat, how often you exercise and the type of exercise...

by Aleteia People of faith can find much to appreciate and adopt in the 10 rules of ikigai, which encourages its adherents to lead a meaningful life. These 10 rules of ikigai may belong to traditional Japanese culture, but Christians can find much wisdom in them as...

by Eleanor Garth - Longevity.Technology Buck Institute researchers reveal mechanism linking NAD+ to fertility problems A woman’s fertility normally decreases by her late 30s with reproductive function eventually ceasing at menopause. It is known that a small molecule...

By NBC NEWS Ever heard of the JAK-STAT pathway? Maybe not, but without its discovery, we wouldn't have dozens of medications, including cancer treatments and even that COVID vaccine. Dr. George Stark is part of the team that discovered it in 1992. Dr. George Stark...

by By Lydia Denworth - Scientific American The biology of aging shows ways to lengthen your healthspan, years free of serious disease Longer life spans overall have been a public health success. But they have also created a new and important gap: healthspans, usually...

By Eve Herold - Director at HSAC - Published by Leaps.org In August, a study provided the first proof-of-principle that genetic material transferred from one species to another can increase both longevity and healthspan in the recipient animal. The naked mole rat...

By Longevity.Technology Pharma giant AbbVie has moved to enhance its neuroscience pipeline by exercising its exclusive right to acquire Mitokinin, a biotechnology company working on a novel treatment for Parkinson’s disease. Mitokinin’s lead compound, a selective...

by Hilary Brueck - Insider There's no standard protocol for antiaging, no single treatment that doctors and scientists all agree can turn back our biological clocks — at least not yet. Some biohackers have tried pricey young-plasma injections that cost thousands of...

by Felix Myhill - RegeMedNet The recent identification of signaling pathways that determine bone stem cell fate could lead to new therapeutic targets to reverse age-linked skeletal impairment. A recent study led by researchers from NYU Grossman School of Medicine (NY,...

By The Conversation Centenarians, once considered rare, have become commonplace. Indeed, they are the fastest-growing demographic group of the world’s population, with numbers roughly doubling every ten years since the 1970s. How long humans can live, and what...

By Dylan Matthews - Vox The big divide on premature death isn’t between college grads and non-grads. It’s between high school dropouts and everyone else. For the past decade or so, Princeton economists Angus Deaton and Anne Case have been promoting a particular story...

By Calum Chance - Forbes Since the dawn of human history, aging has been inevitable. That is changing: longevity medicine has entered the mainstream. We have long known that healthy lifestyles can minimise the impact of chronic diseases of aging, and extend your...