Can Epigenetics Tell Us How Fast We’re Aging?
The way epigenetic changes accumulate over the course of our lifespan tells us how our genes are being altered over time and driving the aging process.
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What Does Walking Speed Tell Us About Health?
Research shows that slow walking is associated with faster aging and poor brain health, proving that gait speed may be an indicator of how you’re aging.
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Understanding Frailty and Its Impact on the Aging Process
Frailty is a period of time is defined by a rapid shift from a normal aging to a state of disability marked by increased weight loss, weakness and decreased activity.
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Understanding Metabolomics and Aging
Metabolomic technology and practices can look at a far greater number of metabolites than clinical chemistry techniques and are far more accurate.
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Is Playing or Listening to Music Good for the Brain?
Whether it is listening to music or playing it, our relationship to the tunes we love has the power to modulate our brain’s responses to stimuli.
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New Milestones Establish a Different Picture of Aging
You might think of aging milestones as life events, but for the body, there are distinct physiological milestones that it experiences as we age.
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What is Biohacking?
Biohacking is a broad term you may hear used to cover a list of activities that run the gamut from taking supplements to injecting stem cells into joints.
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Does a Hysterectomy or Oophorectomy Increase the Likelihood of Dementia?
Shorter reproductive life spans and hysterectomy increase the risk of developing some type of dementia, although the reasons for this are still unclear.
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Do Humans Have an Age Limit?
Risk of death increases significantly with age. Some research suggests there is a human age limit, but others say the longer people live, the risk levels off.
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Is a Drug Which Treats Blood Pressure the Key to Battling Parkinson’s?
Parkinson’s disease is a condition that has no cure, but recent advancements in pharmaceuticals has shown that symptoms of the disease can be kept at bay.
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