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 [...]
New Breakthrough May Dramatically Slow Aging
"We believe we've found the holy grail." That's not the kind of statement you normally expect to hear from a well-respected scientist. His colleague didn't hold back either: "We may be able to take a 60-year-old’s cells and make them 40." That sure got my [...]
Put Your Hands Together and Live Almost Four Years Longer
The late Dr. Cyril Clarke was a renowned British physician, geneticist and professor of medicine. After 1984, with the explosive increase in the number of people living beyond 100, he began to take a great interest in human longevity. He wondered whether extended lifespans were [...]
Previously Overlooked Part of the Cell May be Key to Aging
Researchers who examine the aging process believe they may have found the cellular structure that holds the key to aging And their investigations indicate that size matters. Because they’ve found evidence that when this microscopic part of the cell is relatively compact and small, your [...]
Fights Cavities, Fends Off Alzheimer’s, and More
Imagine there was an amazing natural ingredient that could help with all kinds of health problems… insomnia, pain and cavities. Imagine this same ingredient could also help reduce anxiety and inflammation, and even keep your neurons healthy, thereby reducing your risk of Alzheimer’s disease and [...]
People Who Engage in This Free Pastime Live Longer
Studies show that if you exercise by taking a walk most days of the week, you can expect to live longer than the kind of folks who inspired the phrase "couch potato." But to ensure your daily walks add as many years to your life [...]
This Supplement Makes Blood Vessels 20 Years Younger in 6 Weeks
Declining quality and activity of mitochondria – often called the cells' “batteries” - is associated with many age-related diseases and a wide range of processes that make us age faster. Rejuvenating mitochondria can potentially add years to a person’s life. To do just that, some [...]
Move Over Apples… Singing May Be A Better Way To Keep The Doctor Away
I had the chance to catch up with my friend Nicole a couple of months ago. She had recently come back from a few days of downhill skiing in Vermont with her 14-year-old son and her 91-year-old father. Yes, you read that right. Her 91-year-old [...]
If You Want to Stay Young, be a Kidult
If you're looking for a secret recipe to feel younger and enjoy a longer, happier life, here’s an answer that’s straightforward, painless and cheap. All you have to do is think young, act young and indulge in nostalgia. Maybe this sounds too good to be [...]