What Will Life be Like When Millions Live Past 100?
Education. Work. Retirement. That’s your life plan. It's a simple, three-stage model we have all learned to expect. But this model is rapidly becoming out of date. For the last two centuries life expectancy has increased by more than two years every decade. In 2014, [...]
Pack on This Type of Fat and Live Longer
Most of us want to live a long life, but only if our later years are spent in good health. The buzzword these days isn’t “lifespan,” it’s “healthspan” – how long can you enjoy life to the fullest? That’s why, for the past 20 years, [...]
Scientists Say This Life-Extending Nutrient Should be Considered a Vitamin
Arriving from all over the world, a veritable Who's Who of anti-aging scientists gathered at the campus of UCLA in Westwood, California in 2011. They met to discuss a newly rediscovered nutrient that must be obtained from the diet. It's a type of sulfur-containing amino [...]
Drugs of This Type are Known to Extend Lifespan
In a number of widely different species - yeast, worms, flies, mice - there's a class of pharmaceuticals proven to slow aging and lengthen lifespan. Many anti-aging researchers believe these drugs, called rapalogs, (the best known being rapamycin) hold out real hope for extending human [...]
Maple Leaf Extract: Has Botox Met Its Match?
From lovely fall foliage to delicious syrup, the mighty maple tree has much to offer, and now scientists have discovered it may also help keep skin youthful. University of Rhode Island researchers presented their interesting new findings at the 256th National Meeting & Exposition of [...]
‘Youth Drug’ Popular with the Rich and Powerful (You Can Get It, Too)
Almost 70 years ago, Dr. Ana Aslan, a cardiologist from Rumania, pioneered a treatment to fight aging. It was an injected local anesthetic called procaine (Novocaine), combined with antioxidants and stabilizing agents. You probably know Novocaine as an anesthetic dentists use to numb the teeth [...]
Want to Live Longer? Eat This Snack Three Times a Week
Research now shows you can improve your health and increase your chances of living longer with a snack that doesn’t cost much, and is already popular for good reason: it’s delicious. This goes against the widespread belief that the foods that help you get healthier [...]
Dynamic Duo Slows Down Aging and Tames Brain Inflammation
With millions each year suffering traumatic brain injuries and chronic disorders like Alzheimer's, seeking new ways to protect the brain has become a top priority. Thankfully, renowned author, clinical nutritionist, and pharmacist James LaValle -- who operates at the cutting edge of longevity and rejuvenation [...]
Life Expectancy Is Going Down – Here’s How to Buck the Trend and Live Longer
Since the early 1900s it’s been taken for granted that our life expectancy, year by year, would keep getting longer and longer. What with improved knowledge of nutrition, better medical care and more of it, safer jobs… And for a long time, the average person [...]
An Anti-Aging “Miracle” from Asia
Imagine there was a natural compound that could figure out what was wrong with your body and fix it. Imagine the same compound could be smoothed on your skin to fight wrinkles … or swallowed to boost your energy and fight off aging from the [...]
Are You Working Yourself into an Early Grave?
If workers in Germany, the richest country in Europe, can enjoy 40 days off a year, why do we Americans take only 17 days’ vacation? Even with this miserly number, more than half of us don't even use all the vacation days we’re entitled to, [...]
Tai Chi’s Slow and Easy Motions Slow Down Aging
Long ago, the series of movements called tai chi originated in China as a form of martial arts. Today, instead of being used to fight human enemies, tai chi’s easy-to-learn, graceful, steady motions are mainly used to fight off aging. Here are some of the [...]
Put on a Happy Face – It Will Extend Your Life
Be happy. Enjoy life. It pays off in spades. Scientists even have an estimate as to how long it will take you to see a change in your physical health: about three years.1 In our instant-gratification society, that may seem like a slow-working medicine, but [...]
The Lazy Man’s Guide to Living Longer
If you want to maximize your life expectancy, you have your choice of special diets, exhausting exercise programs and complicated lifestyle changes you can adopt as you try to live as long as possible. But you can also take the easy way out if you’re [...]
Air Pollution is Stealing as Much as 10 Years Off Your Life
Nine million people each year die at an earlier age than they have to because of air pollution. It's the world's biggest environmental cause of disease and early death. But progress in tackling it has been slow. In many countries, environmental needs range from low [...]
The Visionaries Who Believe We Can Live Forever
"We may have a society in which robots will drift away from total metal toward the organic, and human beings will drift away from the total organic toward the metal and plastic, and that somewhere in the middle they may eventually meet." The science fiction [...]
Herbal-Probiotic Combo Extended Life 60% in This Study
When researchers investigated the effects of a traditional herbal medicine in a lab at Canada’s McGill University, they expected to find a few health benefits that would give them reason to study it further. Instead, the results were stunning. The tests produced evidence that the [...]
An Unlikely Combo Increases Lifespan by 36 Per Cent
One of the hallmarks of aging is cellular senescence. Cells lose the ability to divide, differentiate, and replicate -- yet stubbornly refuse to die. These senescent cells not only lose function, but interfere with processes that create new cells when old ones die. They also [...]
New Blood Test Reveals How Long You’ll Live
To calculate someone's life expectancy, scientists look for molecular changes that take place in cells. This approach determines mortality risk by focusing on a person's rate of aging (biological age) as distinct from their chronological age. But a novel approach has emerged that takes information [...]
Can Some People Stop Aging Completely? “Yes,” Italian Researchers Say
When Italian researchers analyzed the health and mortality of Italian seniors, they came to a startling conclusion: As far as longevity and life expectancy goes, quite a few of the people in their study had stopped aging. They had reached what the researchers call a [...]