For a Longer Life, Live in a Good Community
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 [...]
Tomatidine in Green Tomatoes Fights Aging
If you’re like me, you not only want to live as long as you can, you want to be as strong and healthy as possible as you age. You want more years, and you want them to be good years. Well, I’m happy to report [...]
Skullcap For Younger Looking Skin
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 [...]
How to Keep Stem Cells Younger
If scientists ever discover the elusive fountain of youth, that fountain will have to rejuvenate one particular group of cells that will make us all ageless. These cells are the body’s workhorses with the potential to maintain your organs in the pristine condition of a [...]
Exercise Adds Nine Years to Your Life
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 [...]
This Natural Molecule Ranks High Above All Others for Adding Years to Life
The close relationship between depressed levels of this natural peptide and the progression of aging could hardly be more convincing. As a potent antioxidant and detoxifier, with key roles in the immune system and reliable links to longevity, this may be the one, single factor [...]
Whole Body Vibration Slows Down Aging
If you think that to slow down aging you have to engage in a complicated program of strenuous exercise custom-designed to fit your age and abilities, think again. Yes, some sort of physical activity like daily walking is a good idea for staying younger, but [...]
Cool Temperatures Reduce Blood Sugar
Shiver your way to lower blood sugar and better all-round health. If you fancy a rather unusual vacation, why not enroll in 58-year-old Wim Hof's training camp in the wintry wilderness of Poland. For seven days "The Iceman" will teach you how to tolerate sub-zero [...]
Balancing Fats In Your Diet To Fight Aging
To fight the effects of aging, you have to eat the right kinds of fats. Studies show beyond doubt that the cells in your body function better and keep you healthier when they get a balance of the right fatty acids. But most Americans don’t. [...]
Specific Area of the Brain Holds the Key to Aging
A top anti-aging scientist at Harvard described the group's first study as "a major breakthrough in aging research." He called their follow-up work "a tour de force." The research team he was referring to made the discovery that aging can be controlled within a certain [...]
How to Get Your Body to Make the Fountain-of-Youth Hormone
Your body contains a huge gland that, under the right circumstances, produces a hormone that’s remarkably powerful at fighting the aging process. This hormone helps your muscles stay stronger, keeps your brain more alert and nimble, shores up your bones and keeps your blood sugar [...]
Coffee Increases Longevity and Reduces Disease Risk
Several decades ago medical research linked coffee to higher rates of heart disease and cancer. But these findings were later shown to be flawed. In 180-degree turnaround, the most recent research suggests that coffee has many positive health attributes and could have life extension properties. [...]
Dragging Through Your Days? This Hormone Deficiency May be to Blame
You know how people often say you just don’t have the energy you used to have as you get older? As the old joke says, “My get up and go got up and went.” People seem to think it’s inevitable. But it’s not. Waning energy [...]
Pomegranates Increase Life Expectancy
I look through a lot of medical studies in my quest to tell you about ways to slow down aging and keep your body in peak condition. Most of these studies increase our knowledge about aging in small increments, nudging the field forward a little [...]
This Vitamin Could Help You Live Longer
Wouldn’t it be great if you could just take a vitamin that would turn on your longevity genes – the part of your DNA that helps you live longer? Well, guess what. You can! Research shows that there’s a vitamin that seems able to help [...]
Astaxanthin Turns on a Longevity Gene
It seems like some folks have just plain won the longevity gene lottery. They get to live to be a hundred because they inherited DNA from their parents that keeps them spry, alert and mentally sound no matter what their age. I know a very [...]
Intelligence is Related to Longevity
The intricate wiring of 100 billion or so neurons in a human brain makes the connections in your computer look like a kid’s toy. Those neurons are interconnected in ways that are intensely complicated and hard to analzye. So when researchers go about studying the [...]
Age-Old Wisdom Could Extend Your Life in the 21st Century
The ancient Chinese must have been very smart. Described in Shen Nong's Classic of Materia Medica sometime around 110 BC, a plant called Huang Qi was said to have anti-aging functions. And now, over 2000 years later, cutting edge science is showing they were right. [...]
Three Things that Will Add Years to Your Life (And One More that’s a Lot Easier!)
According to an April 2017 report from Texas A&M University, scientists have identified three ways to give yourself a longer life: Drastically cut calorie intake; Restrict the amount of methionine, an amino acid found in meat; Use the drug rapamycin. Rapamycin was originally used to [...]
Meditation Is Good For Telomeres
The harm caused by being in a constant state of stress, for months or years on end, can hardly be exaggerated. There seems to be no part of the body that’s not damaged. Brain, bones, skin, digestion, blood vessels, sex hormones, immunity -- whatever you [...]