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How can two people both born in the same year appear so different? One looks half their age while the other displays many of the signs of aging. Then again, outward appearances may suggest they’re the same age, but they may have very different health-related [...]

A vast range of herbal teas offers all kinds of health benefits. Heaven knows, they get a lot of publicity, but I still bet you don’t know about a tea with strong anti-aging abilities that’s grown only in a certain region in South Africa. It may even [...]

Scientists have identified five lifestyle factors that will reduce your risk of dying prematurely. Each one will lower your chances by between 3% and 21%. The lead author of the new research stressed that "People should try to incorporate as many of these things into [...]

Scientists have conducted a great deal of research to learn how physical health, diet and genetics relate to longevity, but they’ve paid little attention to mental health or personality. To plug this shortfall, researchers from Italy, Switzerland and the US teamed up to find out [...]

It gets harder to keep muscle strength as you age. We naturally lose muscle mass as we grow older. But how big is this problem, really? When you’re in your 40s, you lose about 1% of your muscle mass and strength each year. By the [...]

If the idea of plastering your face with mud, smearing it with expensive creams, and signing up for Botox or a facelift doesn't appeal to you, there's a new way to turn back the clock on the way you look - and it needn't cost [...]

If your body generates excessive free radicals, it can overwhelm antioxidant defenses. When this takes place you enter a state called oxidative stress. It’s the cause of many chronic diseases. The poisons in our environment are major sources of free radicals and oxidative stress. For [...]

Ongoing stress is bad for your emotional and physical health. It can promote disease, reduce the length of telomeres -- a biomarker of biological aging -- and reduce the number of years you’ll live. That much is well established. But there's another, more subtle form [...]

Have you ever heard of the term senescence? It’s a five-dollar word that simply means “the process of aging.” In this article, we’re talking about cellular aging. Senescence occurs when cells are no longer capable of dividing but are still alive and active. They are [...]

Nobody likes being nagged constantly by medical authorities about the importance of exercise and how we really have to make ourselves do it. But if you want to live a healthier, longer life, there's no getting it around. The research is overwhelming. Now comes a [...]