Muscle mass and strength
Grip strength is a crude test. You squeeze a dynamometer as hard as you can. In a Lancet analysis of the PURE study it...
Cardiorespiratory fitness (VO₂ max)
VO₂ max is the ceiling on how much oxygen your body can take in, deliver, and use when you are working as hard as...
Geroscience: Treating Aging Biology Itself
Geroscience starts from a simple claim that is still unusual in medicine: many of the diseases that dominate later life are not independent failures....
Measuring Biological Age — and the First Steps Toward Cellular Reprogramming
Two linked discoveries are changing how aging is studied, and what it might mean to treat it. One is a better way to measure...
Treat relationships, purpose, and mental load like vital signs.
The people who keep a 50-year-old memory past 80 are not just lucky. They are unusually social, and their brains show it.
Northwestern’s SuperAging program...
Control the “big four” killers early: lipids, blood pressure, glucose, tobacco
Most years of healthy life are still lost to atherosclerotic disease, cancer, metabolic disease and neurodegeneration. The tools that cut that list are not...
A plant-forward, protein-adequate diet — and not overeating
The eating pattern with the most consistent human data is not a named fad. It is a Mediterranean, or “green-Mediterranean,” plate: vegetables, fruit, legumes,...
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