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...
Whole-Food, Plant-Forward or Mediterranean-Style Nutrition: A Foundation for Metabolic Health and...
Among dietary patterns studied for long-term health, whole-food, plant-forward approaches—especially the Mediterranean diet—stand out for consistent associations with lower rates of heart disease, certain...
Don’t Smoke, Limit Alcohol, and Avoid Opioid Dependence
In a study of more than 700,000 U.S. veterans, eight midlife habits predicted large differences in survival. Physical inactivity, smoking, and opioid use had...
Social Connection, Purpose, and the Mortality Edge
Loneliness and social isolation are not merely unpleasant. Large-scale evidence shows they elevate the risk of earlier death on a scale that public-health researchers...
A Mediterranean-Style, Plant-Forward Diet with Enough Protein
Eating patterns built around vegetables, fruit, legumes, nuts, whole grains, olive oil, and fish—while keeping ultra-processed foods and excess red or processed meat low—consistently...
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,...
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...
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...
Moderate Calories Without Malnutrition
Caloric restriction is the most replicated lifespan intervention in animals. Cut energy intake without starving the animal of vitamins, minerals, and protein, and yeast,...
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....
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