Tag Archives: Aging

A team of Harvard-affiliated researchers believes so. In a groundbreaking study, they found that a daily dose of vitamin D may help preserve DNA and keep people biologically younger by years. The trial, called VITAL, tracked more than 1,000 adults over four years and has just been published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition. What the Harvard study found …

A major new review in JAMA highlights an emerging medical approach that could transform how we fight aging and disease. Rather than treating heart disease, cancer, or kidney disease one at a time, researchers argue for targeting the biological processes of aging itself, an approach known as geroscience. Credit: Stock Scientists are rethinking aging as a treatable process, with new …

Cannabis compounds are showing early promise for healthy aging, a new study has found. However, much more research is needed to learn how results might differ depending on the frequency of use and the individual. Researchers in the UK reviewed 18 different studies across 15 years of research (2008 to 2023), involving both animal models and human participants. “By synthesizing …

The Healthy Brain Aging Initiative was developed by Tulane’s Neurology Chair, Dr. Demetrius Maraganore, in response to the notably high incidence of Alzheimer’s disease and dementia in Louisiana. The research from this program is focused on Alzheimer’s and dementia prevention and memory disorder treatments using the latest evidence-based research and movement disorders treatment, like Parkinson’s, related to brain aging. Maraganore, …

A single protein was found to fuel brain aging, and shutting it down reversed memory loss. Credit: Shutterstock Researchers at UC San Francisco have uncovered a surprising culprit in brain aging: a protein called FTL1. In aging mice, too much of this protein weakened memory and disrupted neural connections. But when scientists blocked FTL1, the mice’s brains regained youthful function, …

Summary: A new study reveals that Americans with less education are aging faster than those with more schooling, and the divide has widened over the past three decades. Biological age—measuring internal health rather than years lived—shows that people with a college degree experience slower aging. While overall aging has slowed in the U.S., the benefits are not evenly distributed, with …

Groundbreaking Study Reveals That Vitamin D May Slow Biological Aging  SciTechDaily Will vitamin D supplements keep me younger?  Harvard Health Brigham and Women’s study finds vitamin D may slow biological aging  WBUR Landmark study suggests daily supplement could slow ageing  lbc.co.uk Source link

Aging is particularly harsh on the hippocampus — the brain region responsible for learning and memory. Now, researchers at UC San Francisco have identified a protein that’s at the center of this decline. They looked at how the genes and proteins in the hippocampus changed over time in mice and found just one that differed between old and young animals. …

Aging is the strongest risk factor for most chronic diseases; however, medicine has historically treated each condition individually. Geroscience is a new discipline that aims to define and modify aging-related biological pathways, slow age-related disability, prevent age-related diseases, and increase disability-free survival. A review in JAMA outlines the aims, methods, recent advances, and ongoing challenges of geroscience. The review was …

COVID-19 can cause a patient’s blood vessels to age around 5 years, and this phenomenon is seen most strongly in women, according to findings published yesterday in the European Heart Journal. The study describes how even mild COVID-19 can accelerate cardiac aging.  The study included 2,390 participants from 16 different countries who were recruited from 2020 to 2022. The participants …