Monthly Archives: January 2022

A gravity free environment weakens muscles just as aging does, except the process is rapidly accelerated.

This understanding led to MicroAge, a scientific space mission to explore processes that will help preserve muscle strength in old age. The mission was launched in a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from the Kennedy Space Center in December. Here’s the fascinating story…

With aging comes many health challenges, one of which is physical frailty. This is a major factor in a person’s ability to maintain independence and quality of life. This progressive loss of skeletal muscle mass, strength, and function with aging causes an increase in […]

Chronological age is an unreliable guide to our future health prospects. Some people are robust in their nineties; others are chronically sick decades earlier.

So, top scientists have come up with a better gauge of health – the level of inflammation within the immune system.

Researchers say that this inflammatory aging clock, or iAge, predicts how soon we’ll become frail, and whether we’re likely to suffer a whole host of age-related diseases.

Low grade, chronic, body-wide inflammation starts to develop as we get older. It damages organs and tissues, and increases the risk of cancer, […]

During stressful times it’s not uncommon to hear someone say, “I feel like I’ve aged ten years.”

Well, it turns out there’s something to that statement. Scientists have now proven that it’s not all in your head.

The research shows that stress does make life’s clock tick faster! In past studies, prolonged stress has been linked to diabetes, heart disease, and more.1 Now a study published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences found that stress can add years to the age of individual immune […]