Tag Archives: Aging

Today is the oldest you’ve ever been, and the youngest you’ll ever be. That’s just the way it is, but did you know that not all of you is aging at the same rate? New research has shown that, in fact, some of our organs age much faster than others, opening new frontiers for understanding, tracking, and potentially intervening the …

Most U.S. adults have a “heart age” older than their chronological age because of factors like lifestyle and heart disease. Northwestern University’s online tool calculates heart age using health data such as cholesterol levels and blood pressure. Observational data showed gaps in heart and chronological ages based on education and race. You know how many birthdays you’ve had. But how …

Psilocybin helped aging mice not just live longer but also “look better” in groundbreaking new study  PsyPost Psilocybin Might Also Be An Excellent Anti-Aging Drug  VICE 🍄 Surprising discovery: living 25 years longer thanks to “magic mushrooms”?  Techno-Science.net Fascinating new study suggests psychedelic mushrooms can slow down the aging process  good.is Magic Mushrooms could lengthen your lifespan  MSN Source link

Is your heart aging faster than you? Here’s how to check its biological age.  The Washington Post Most American’s hearts are older than their chronological age, new tool says  statnews.com Most US adults have hearts older than their actual age. How old is yours?  Medical Xpress This simple tool could let you find out your heart’s real age  BBC Science Focus Magazine Source link

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 …