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The Predictors of Longevity You Need to Care About

Living a long and healthy life is a universal aspiration, and with the publication of Peter Aittia’s new book “Outlive”, it has never been a bigger focus. With this has come the realisation that, while genetics do play a significant role in determining your life expectancy, there are other factors within your control that can

Stop Taking Loans on Your Health

Over the last few years “hustle” culture has embedded itself into the lives of people across the globe. However, while the drive to work yourself to the bone in your twenties, thirties, and forties to set yourself up in your later years may have a positive impact on your financial situation, it is likely to

New Research on How to Prevent Alzheimer’s Now

People are currently living longer than ever before – and while you would be hard pressed to find someone who thinks this is bad thing, it does come with its own unique set of challenges. Namely an increase in the risk of developing several age-related diseases, with one of the most common being Alzheimer’s disease.

How to Workout to Promote Longevity

Exercise is for everyone. In fact, I would argue that exercise becomes more important as you get older. It helps stave off disease and illness, enhances functional ability, and ultimately promotes longevity – which is pretty important for everyone if you ask me. How does exercise effect longevity? Getting older typically occurs alongside a number

Ways to Improve Your Longevity Genes

Humans are currently living longer than ever before. With advancements in healthcare, technology, and knowledge, we have begun to work out what it takes to maintain health across the lifespan, thus enhancing longevity in the process. Interestingly, there is some recent research indicating that longevity may not only be a result of your lifestyle habits,

Now Is the Time to Reset Your Health

Even though we are living in the most abundant time in human history, chronic disease is at all-time high. The incidence of obesity, diabetes cardiovascular disease, depression, and anxiety are all reaching epidemic proportions. And to top it all off, we are now facing a coronavirus pandemic. Not good. But, in my honest option, this

A Trick To The Foundation Of Youth?

Julia C. Basso The hypothalamus is an almond-sized structure that sits in the lower, middle portion of the brain. It consists of a variety of different nuclei that regulate different aspects of behavior including thirst, hunger, body temperature, fatigue, sleep, and circadian rhythms as well as parenting and other attachment relationships. The hypothalamus produces specific

Improve Fitness To Lengthen Healthspan

By Sara Thompson, M.Sc. in Exercise Science Neural specificity is how well the brain can distinguish one stimulus from another. Or in other words, how well an individual can visually recognize the differences between various images. This response occurs in a part of the brain called the ventral visual cortex and can be measured by

Lengthen Healthspan Through Exercise

Julia Basso – PhD Youth is a sought after thing. Doctors, scientists, and many others among us are actively seeking the elusive fountain of youth. The ultimate question is: how do we keep our bodies and minds young? One of my favorite movies, Death Becomes Her, stars Meryl Streep and Goldie Hawn. In it, these