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Embryos appear to reverse their biological clock early in development
As people age, so do all of our cells, which accumulate damage over time. But why our offspring don’t inherit those changes — effectively aging a child even before birth — has been a mystery. “When you are born, you don’t inherit your parents’ age,” says...
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‘Anti-ageing’ protein shown to slow cell growth is key in longevity
Humans are living longer than ever before. But alongside these increases in life expectancy are an increase in the occurrence of age-related diseases such as cancer and dementia. But understanding the biology of ageing, and knowing the genes and proteins involved in...
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Coffee, Tea May Increase Longevity for People With Type 2 Diabetes
If you've got type 2 diabetes and love drinking green tea or coffee, new research suggests you may be reducing your odds of a premature death. But you need to really love these drinks. The study found that having four or more cups of green tea along with two cups of...
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Longevity Linked to Proteins That Calm Overexcited Neurons
thousand seemingly insignificant things change as an organism ages. Beyond the obvious signs like graying hair and memory problems are myriad shifts both subtler and more consequential: Metabolic processes run less smoothly; neurons respond less swiftly; the...
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Biological Age of Humans Reversed
Biological age of humans reversed by years in groundbreaking study, scientists suggest Scientists might be able to reverse process of ageing, a new study suggests. Volunteers who were given a cocktail of drugs for a year actually “aged backwards”, losing an average of...
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120 Year Old Marathon Runner
Born on 6 October 1897, Dharampal comes from the village of Gudha village in Meerut, UP and is a farmer. He claims to have been running since he was a teenager."When I was young, I used to run from my village to the neighboring village, which was about 600 to 700...
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Strong Grip May Predict Longer Life at All Ages
Thursday, 24 May 2018 03:56 PM Grip strength may be a better predictor of future health than some measurements doctors currently use to gauge risk, a large UK study suggests. Although grip strength has long been a good indicator of frailty or health in older people,...
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Study: Human Life Span Has No Limit
Jeanne Calment, the woman believed have been the world's oldest person on record, celebrated her 122nd birthday Feb. 21, 1997 before dying late that year. (AP) By By HealthDay | Thursday, 28 June 2018 04:35 PM The limits of human existence might not be as limited...
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New technique could see humans live to 150
New technique could see humans live to 150 and regrow organs ‘for the price of a coffee a day’ Stunning anti-ageing breakthrough could see humans live to 150 and regenerate organs by 2020 'for the price of a coffee a day' A new technique could see the aging process...
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5 Things You Must Do to Live Longer
By Dr. Oz and Michael Roizen, M.D. Thursday, 20 September 2018 09:54 AM When "Star Trek's" Mr. Spock said, "Live long and prosper," he could have been telling 21st-century folks to start taking advantage of the longevity revolution that was sweeping over them — one...
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Embracing Spirituality
Embracing Spirituality as a Toolkit For Longevity Along with countless personal anecdotes linking faith to longevity, there is a substantial amount of scientific research to support the claim that spiritual people live longer lives. Onerecent study found that womenwho...
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Oldest living person ever at 128
"Tired" Koku Istambulova says she hasn't enjoyed a single happy day in her life and has "no idea" how she has lived so long 10:17, 16 MAY 2018 UPDATED14:07, 16 MAY 2018 A woman purported to be the oldest living person ever at 128 says she hasn't lived a single happy...
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Swedish Study Reveals Secrets to Long, Healthy Life
Monday, 30 April 2018 08:19 AM An ongoing Swedish study has revealed some of the key steps that we can all take to age healthier and stay independent for longer, even after the age of 90. Researchers at Uppsala University have shared some of the findings from their...
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Worms may hold the secret to longer life
05 July 2018 The regenerative abilities of the flatworm Macrostomum lignano serve as a model for how humans might regenerate tissues. Image credit - Flickr/ Lukas Schärer, licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0 Research into the remarkable regenerative powers of worms and the...
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Dietary supplement shows promise for reversing cardiovascular aging
'NR' shown to mimic caloric restriction, boost arterial health Date: March 29, 2018 Source:University of Colorado at Boulder Summary: A novel nutraceutical called nicotinomide riboside has been found to kick-start the same biological pathways as calorie restriction...
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Could Rapamycin Help Humans Live Longer?
From extending lifespan to bolstering the immune system, the drug’s effects are only just beginning to be understood. By Anne N. Connor | March 1, 2018 In the 1990s, pharmacologist Dave Sharp of the University of Texas’s Barshop Institute for Longevity and Aging...
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Vitamin D Can Reduce Mortality
Friday, 02 Mar 2018 08:59 AM A new Norwegian study suggests that getting the right amount of vitamin D could substantially reduce an individual's risk of death. Carried out by researchers at the University of Bergen (UiB), the study looked at 4,114 patients with...
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Was Faith a Factor in Billy Graham’s Longevity?
By Charlotte Libov | Wednesday, 21 Feb 2018 11:15 AM Faith was a key factor that gave the Rev. Billy Graham the strength to live his very long life, a renowned cardiologist says. “Studies have shown that people of faith live longer, and, in the case of Billy...
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Want to live forever? You just have to make it to 2050
By Sean Keach, Digital Technology and Science Editor | The Sun 3d rendering of human brain on technology background represent artificial intelligence and cyber space concept (monsitj) (Credit: iStock) (monsitj) "If you're under 40 reading this article, you're...
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Surprising bat genetic trait holds secrets of longevity
Will Dunham WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Bats are the longest-lived mammals relative to body size, and a species called the greater mouse-eared bat lives especially long. Researchers now have unlocked some of this bat’s longevity secrets, with hints for fighting the...
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Yoga, Meditation Reverse Effects of Stress-Related Health Disorders
By Emily Netburn | Thursday, 18 Jan 2018 11:56 AM The health benefits of yoga and meditation are well known – easing stress, lowering blood pressure, combatting depression and anxiety, reducing back pain, aiding those with asthma or arthritis, and even curing a...
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How long could we live?
Fergus Walsh--Medical correspondent Media captionPeople over the age of 80 give their views on how to age the right way How long do you want to live - to 85, 90, 100 or beyond? More important than how long we live is the state of our health in old age. The oldest...
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Number of genetic markers linked to lifespan triples
25 genetic variants linked to human longevity Date: December 7, 2017 Source: University of Connecticut Summary: Researchers have studied 389,166 volunteers who gave DNA samples to the UK Biobank, US Health and Retirement Study and the Wisconsin Longitudinal Study. In...
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Scientists find incredible shark that may be over 500 years old and still kicking
December 14th, 2017 at 12:21 PM What were you doing 500 years ago? Oh, that’s right nothing, because you didn’t exist yet. In fact, several generations of your family had yet to leave their mark on the world, but one very special shark may already have been swimming...
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WWII veteran celebrates 100th birthday by running 100 miles with his family
By Katherine Lam | Fox News Family runs 100 miles to celebrate veteran's 100th birthday Four generations run a combined total of 100 miles in celebration. A World War II veteran celebrated his 100th birthday on Saturday by gathering his family and running a combined...
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The Greek Island with the key to Longevity
By Marissa Tejada 17 November 2017 With thin, white hair pinned to the side and thick glasses perched on the bridge of her nose, Ioanna Proiou slid her wrinkled, sun-spotted fingers over the strands of baby-blue wool stretched across her heavy wooden loom. She clanked...
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Enlightenment for Newbies
This book is oriented to those people who are trying to learn what enlightenment is all about, and want to better understand what it is, and how to get there. It is oriented towards beginners who haven't studied previously on the subject. Issues are discussed such as...
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This Italian island is home to the oldest people in the world. Here’s their secret
Matthew Vickery, Special to USA TODAYPublished 3:56 p.m. ET Nov. 14, 2017 | Updated 8:48 a.m. ET Nov. 15, 2017 Forget the anti aging creams, soaps and lotions. Turns out the secret to youth is actually chocolate and red wine. Buzz60's Natasha Abellard...
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Physical Immortality: A History and How to Guide
My first book on Longevity and Immortality and still the most popular:
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