Exercise can help adults retain their memories, study shows
Episodic memory is the kind that deals with events that happened to you in the past. It’s also one of the first to decline with age.
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Joseph Shavit
- Feb 12, 2022
Groundbreaking research uncovers how and why exercise improves health and longevity
Monash University, Australia scientists have discovered an enzyme that is key to why exercise improves our health.
Joseph Shavit
- Feb 12, 2022
Older people in good shape have fitter brains
Men and women who had maintained or increased their physical fitness during the study had better brain health.
Joseph Shavit
- Feb 3, 2022
Growth charts for the brain help to understand mental illness as we age
The researchers provide a growth chart to assess brain development and aging, not only for children, but across the lifespan from 2 to 100.
Joseph Shavit
- Feb 1, 2022
Blood iron levels could be key to slowing ageing
Genetic data suggests that maintaining healthy levels of iron in the blood could be a key to ageing better and living longer.
Joseph Shavit
- Jan 28, 2022
Gut microbiome may hold key to combat muscle decline as we age
In skeletal muscle, decreased performance and increased fatigue are associated with a decline in the efficiency of mitochondria.
Joseph Shavit
- Jan 26, 2022
Blood proteins could be the key to a long and healthy life, study finds
Two blood proteins have been shown by scientists to influence how long and healthy a life we live, research suggests.
Joseph Shavit
- Jan 20, 2022
Your eyes and age are linked to heightened death risk, study shows
Research showed a strong association between predicted retinal age and real age, with an overall accuracy to within 3.5 years.
Joshua Shavit
- Dec 23, 2021
Are older people more likely to fall for Covid-19 scams than younger people?
Are older people more likely to fall for Covid-19 scams than younger generations?
Joseph Shavit
- Dec 16, 2021
Scientists finally solve the mystery of why exercise improves our health
Scientists have discovered an enzyme that is key to why exercise improves our health and protects against the consequences of ageing.
Joseph Shavit
- Dec 12, 2021
Humans could 'live forever' through 'immortality' freezing
Many people throughout human history have had the seemingly-impossible ambition of living forever. Immortality might not be a pipe dream.
Joseph Shavit
- Dec 7, 2021
Does stress make you age faster? Yale researchers have the answer
How much does chronic stress accelerate your biological clock and are there ways to slow it down and extend a healthy lifespan?
Joseph Shavit
- Nov 29, 2021
How the gut microbiome could potentially reverse brain aging
According to a recent study, scientists have found a somewhat bizarre method that could prevent your brain from growing old.
Joseph Shavit
- Nov 26, 2021
78-Year-Old Edwina Brocklesby Inspiring Women In Triathlon
Looking at Edwina Brocklesby, the first thing you notice is her ever-present smile, radiating from beneath a sea of bright red curls.
Joseph Shavit
- Nov 25, 2021
Taking it easy as you get older is a bad idea according to Harvard researchers
Humans, who evolved to live many decades after they stopped reproducing, also evolved to be relatively active in their later years.
Joseph Shavit
- Nov 22, 2021
A protein may be the key to achieving a long and healthy life
Many aging studies are developing strategies to increase health spans, the period of life spent with good health, without chronic diseases.
Joseph Shavit
- Nov 16, 2021
New study shows that brains learn differently as people age
A new study of brain activity patterns in people doing a memory task finds that the way we make inferences changes dramatically as we age.
Joseph Shavit
- Nov 14, 2021
Man earns Ph.D., fulfills dream of being physicist—at 89
An 89-year-old Rhode Island man has achieved a goal he spent two decades working toward and nearly a lifetime thinking about—earning his PhD
Joseph Shavit
- Nov 6, 2021
Humans could 'live forever' as firm offers 'immortality' freezing for about $660-a-year
Many people dream of living forever, while songs have been written about it and movies made with eternal life the central plot point.
Joseph Shavit
- Nov 5, 2021
Poor health threatens voting in older age, but absentee and early voting can help maintain turnout
Poor health—not aging itself—decreases older Americans' likelihood of voting, a new study finds, but early and absentee voting can help.
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