Tag Archives: Aging

More than five years after the start of the Covid-19 pandemic, we are still discovering the after-effects of not only the virus but also the prolonged period of stress, isolation, loss, and uncertainty that the pandemic caused. A new scientific study, published this month in Nature Communications, has revealed that the pandemic may have accelerated brain aging in people even …

Credit: ZME Science/Midjourney. Aging has always been tied hand in hand with the passage of time: a slow and steady process. A little less energy here, a few more wrinkles there. But a massive new study suggests that aging isn’t actually linear. It accelerates dramatically around age 50, with the body’s organs veering into decline at sharply different speeds. The …

The passage of time may be linear, but the course of human aging is not. Rather than a gradual transition, your life staggers and lurches through the rapid growth of childhood, the plateau of early adulthood, to an acceleration in aging as the decades progress. Now, a new study has identified a turning point at which that acceleration typically takes …

Pumping Iron Is Their Secret to Aging Well  The New York Times New research: How exercise with weights is vital for strength, cognition & healthy ageing  NZ Herald Ask the doctors: Exercise can improve cognition in older adults  Daily Herald How The Oldest Of The Old Stay Cognitively Sharp, Study Reveals  MindBodyGreen This Type of Exercise May Help Reverse Cognitive Decline, Research Reveals  MindBodyGreen Source …

Oscar winner Jamie Lee Curtis opened up about her considerations of retirement and Hollywood’s aging problem in relation to her parents, icons of the industry Janet Leigh and Tony Curtis. In an extensive interview with The Guardian tied to the upcoming Aug. 8 release of Disney’s Freakier Friday, the Halloween actress slammed the entertainment world’s treatment of older actors, particularly …

Psilocybe cubensis – credit CC BY-SA 3.0. Alan Rockefeller Reprinted with permission from World at Large. Researchers have discovered that the active compound in psychedelic mushrooms can extend lifespan and reduce cellular aging by 50% in human cells and 30% in elderly mice. The experiments reveal another potential therapeutic use of the compound—called psilocybin—which has already been studied as a …

A longitudinal study of nearly 996 healthy adults found that the COVID-19 pandemic accelerated ageing of their brains. The resulting paper, “Accelerated brain ageing during the COVID-19 pandemic,” appeared in the Journal Nature Communications on Tuesday The paper explains that the UK’s Biobank contains longitudinal neuroimaging data describing the brains of over 15,000 Brits, and that scientists have used machine …

As revenues from the anti-aging market — riddled with hope and thousands of supplements– surged past $500 million last year, Emory University researchers identified a compound that actively delays aging in cells and organisms. A newly published study in Nature Partner Journals’ Aging demonstrates that psilocin, a byproduct of consuming psilocybin, the active ingredient in psychedelic mushrooms, extended the cellular …

Summary: Scientists developed a computational “aging clock” that measures the biological age of brain cells and identifies compounds with rejuvenating potential. By analyzing gene activity from healthy and neurodegenerative brain tissue, they pinpointed 453 interventions predicted to reverse cellular aging. Initial animal tests showed improvements in behavior, cognition, and molecular markers of youth in older mice. This breakthrough paves the …

Most of us want to enjoy later life feeling strong, connected, and mentally sharp. But how often do we stop to think about whether the things we’re doing right now are helping us get there? A new quiz – which we have developed as part of the Take Five to Age Well project, a free, expert-led, month-long challenge from The …