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...
Control blood pressure (often toward ~120 mm Hg systolic)
High blood pressure damages arteries for years before it causes a symptom. The SPRINT trial found that, in high-risk adults without diabetes, aiming for...
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...
Sleep as a longevity organ
Treat sleep as you would treat blood pressure or fitness: a system that either repairs you or ages you.
Short sleep and irregular sleep are...
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